Transcription: called quince, which to me seems to be a mixture of five fruits (from the name quince) there are plenty of seeds in this kind. In addition there is always the old familiar Tickler's Plum jam to fall back upon - we also get grengage made by this firm. I understand that tonight - for dinner we are having stew made from tinned bully beef and potatoes. We can buy fruit very cheaply here (we buy it when we can't pinch it). For instance the other day we got a bunch of 40 splendind bananas for 25 cents (fourpence), then again we went out one day and got a basket of tomatoes for our tent. There would be about 8 or 9 pounds, for which we gave one rupee (1/4); they were just like English tomatoes intaste, but only about the size of a plum.

Transcription: India Office London WC. Letter No. 15 Dear Father, Mother & Margaret. I was very pleased indeed to receive yesterday your letters of August 22nd, 29th and September 4th, also newspapers for a month (four each Courier & Chronicle - Aug 13th to Sep 3rd). In your letter of Aug 22nd (a very short one) you say that you have posted at the same time a parcel, No 4, containing a long letter with all the news. This parcel unfortunately has not yet come to hand, but I sincerely hope it will do. As I have said before you must never put letters inside a parcel as it is not allowed by the postal authorities. Things out here are not so well conducted by the postal people as in France and there is much more likelihood of parcels going astray. Letters are, however, looked after as being more easily handled. On account of the letter in the parcel I hope it will come to hand quickly as it is already two months old. I want the letter far more than what is in the parcel. News of all you at home is much more valuable to me. You ask me whether I want a parcel every two weeks or a larger  one every three or four weeks. Well really as I have explained to you in my previous letters, I don't want you to send me any parcels at all as I can get all thedainties I require without you having to pay such heavy postage. Really if you continue to send these parcels I shall be cross, but I know it pleases you to send them - still I would very much prefer that you send me none. I don't care for the idea of you spending money on parcels which will often find theur way into the hands of someone for whom they ar enot intended. I am answering our Margaret's letter of September 2nd separately as it will please her to receive a letter all on her own. They seem to be very stringent now as regards to calling men up - but on the other hand a lot of men slip through who ought not to do. I really cannot understand how Honsoons have managed so long to stay out, but never mind I can hold up my head when I come home. How has Mr Marshall gone on? Perhaps now as I write (oct 20th) he is already in khaki. Really I don't what the world is coming to. It is going mad and the people in it (at least the rulers). Bernard Rhodes is in France and I understand that is trying for a commission. Percy Shoesmith has been called up and although he is a blooming "conscript" yet he gets a commisiion straight away at his own job with good pay. He of all people does does not deserve a commission. If we come home before the war in Europe is done with I think I shall have to go in for a lieutenancy as well, but i am very happy as a private among my chums. That explosion at Low Moor was a terribel affair wasn't it? It was posted on our news board "a Yorkshire munition factory" so I wondered whether it was anywhere near home. You ask me how I am faring with my food out here. Very well indeed! We have absolutely nothing to grumble at in that respect; we get as much (and more) as we can eat, plenty of good   freshly baked bread. For breakfast one week we have bacon and the other week porridge (We have to 38

Transcription: day to a fresh station I may not be able to get a letter away to you for more than a week. It will take us a few days to reach our new destination, but I will send you another line as soon as get settled down again. Lil sent my her photos I a neat little leather case and I shall be pleased to receive our Margaret's. Tell her to put on a pretty smile when he has it taken and she must write me another nice letter when she sends the photo. The letter she sent with yours in the parcel was champion for a little girl of her age. I shouldn't care for Harold Jayes' job in the Navy. Five weeks seems long enough for me to be on the water, not to mention months together. Have you been away for your holidays yet? It is now October 1st, so I suppose you have been away, or perhaps you may be at Blackpool as I am writing this. Socially we are having some very good times here; the YMCA is a splendid thing for us soldiers and helps to pass some very cheerful evenings. Last Saturday week we had a splendid concert at which I officiated at the piano. On the Sunday evening we had a musical service at which an officer and the YMCA secretary both gave solos. Here again my services were requisitioned. Wednesday evening we had yet another concert with this time Cinema pictures - what do you think about that? I appeared here also. Last Saturday (Sep 30th) we had the finest concert of the tour at which we had the services of a band, which styles itself "The Korogwe Military Band". It has been got together during the last week or so and gives a jolly good account of itself. It was a splendid change to have them give a selection at intervals during the concert, mostly ragtime, but just the sort of stuff to suit a crowd of fellows. On Friday night I went on guard at 5 pm until 5 pm Saturday. It was quite an interesting experience during the night, when two of us were on sentry together. We do two hours on and four hours off. Well, I think I have about exhausted my stock of new this time so will now conclude, with the best of love and good wishes to all of you. Yours affectionately, Alvin Xxxxxxxxxx For Mother & Margaret. I forgot to tell you that I am still keeping very fit. My arm is quite all right now. Two of the sores have dried up and the remaining one is dry and seems ready for coming off any time, so is quite out of danger of anything recurring. ******************* Envelope Pflanzung Kiswani G.m.b.H.                           On Active Service Post Tanga D.O.A.                      Passed by Censor 33

Transcription: I can imagine that all you people at home are full of sympathy for me and my chums for the hardships we are having to undergo out here, but do you know, we have found no hardships whatever and are all as happy as can be; we get plenty to eat, plenty of fresh air & plenty sleep, with not too much work. We have all we require except our loved ones at home and our wants are very few; on this account please don't send too much stuff out here as it may never reach me and it is no good throwing good money away. The parcel you sent me arrived quite safely last Wednesday morning. Thak you very mcuh - the socks are splendid and just a comfortable size; the toffee had candied somewhat, but still it tasted very nice for a change; the cigarettes are very nice as a change from the African tobacco, but don't toruble to send any more as I can get them so cheaply here. Beides this cheap African tobacco we buy some good English cigarettes, Will's King Stork, at a cost of ten a penny and they are very nearly like Gold Flake. The Oxo will come in splendid;y. The health salts too come in very handy. We get robacco issued and I have always more than I require in hand. It is not advisable to enclose letters in parcels as they may be stopped. then too it is always better to send a letter separately telling me that a parcel is on the way, then I know to enquire for it, in case it should go astray, but as I said before please don't be continually sending parcels. In mother's letter enclosed in the parcel she said that she would try to bear up and keep good heart and told me to do the same. Neither any of you nor Lilian must fret about me being out here, because I am very comfortable and happy and am looking forward to being able to keep so and come back to good old Yorkshire sooner than a lot of people think. I am absolutely all right and want you all to cheer up and keep quite content, because if you don't it will only end in making me miserable and at present I am far from that. So far the only wild animals I have seen have been one or two sprinkbok, animals very much like deer and very timid; we have seen them in the woods when cutting timber. At night time we occassionally hear jackals & hyenas yelping. On Monday while I was on the fatigue building the wash-house, the main body of our men went on a route march on the plain and came back with various stories of the animals they had seen, some had seen a lion, another a cheetah, some saw a couple of giraffes and, of course, a number of springbok, so I am sorry that I missed that march. Of course all these animals are very timid and bolt as fast as they can. They have to be hunted properly, before they get dangerous, and we have intructions not to fore upon them. Well, I am afraid I have nothing more to tell you this time, so I will now conclude with best love to all from Yours affectionately Alvin. Thursday 31/8/16 Oh, I forgot one or two things. We have a YMCA even out here. It is a most enchanting building, made of mud & logs, thatched with thin trees and rushes and looks very pretty. They have a piano and sell tea, coffee & buns, so you can tell it is very well patronised. We usually go down before dinner and again in the evening. 27

Description: Certificate of Discharge van Henry Ernest Fookes

Description: Destinataire non identifié : Monsieur Elkan, habitant 2 rue Royale à Bruxelles. Elkan semble avoir été à la fois l'ami du marquis de Caux et une sorte d'agent pour les tournées de la Patti. - Comprend 200 lettres, 52 télégrammes, 1 carte de visite. - Comprend également 5 programmes et diverses coupures de presse. - Monogramme en relief du marquis de Caux : HC surmonté d'une couronne || Correspondance || || Correspondance || Destinataire non identifié : Monsieur Elkan, habitant 2 rue Royale à Bruxelles. Elkan semble avoir été à la fois l'ami du marquis de Caux et une sorte d'agent pour les tournées de la Patti. - Comprend 200 lettres, 52 télégrammes, 1 carte de visite. - Comprend également 5 programmes et diverses coupures de presse. - Monogramme en relief du marquis de Caux : HC surmonté d'une couronne

Description: Der Soldat M. Rabenschlag befand sich seit ca. 1916 im Kriegsgefangenenlager Stobs (Grafschaft Roxburgshire in Schottland) in englischer Kriegsgefangenschaft. In dem Album haben sich zahlreiche seiner Mitgefangenen in den Jahren 1916/17 mit kurzen Eintragungen sowie ihren Heimatadressen handschriftlich verewigt. Das Lager in Stobs wurde 1903 südlich von Hawick errichtet. Bei Kriegsausbruch diente es noch als Lager für heimische Truppen. Zeitweise waren dort bis zu 5000 Soldaten stationiert. Im Oktober 1914 wurde das Lager in ein Kriegsgefangenenlager umgewandelt und 200 Holzbaracken für etwa 6000 Gefangene gebaut. Unter diesen befanden sich auch die überlebenden Besatzungsmitglieder des Kriegsschiffes SMS Blücher. Die Gefangenen wurden zu verschiedenen Arbeiten eingesetzt, u.a. bei Bauarbeiten im Lager, in der Feldarbeit oder beim Bau eines Abwassersystems. Zudem brachten sie ihre eigene Zeitung heraus und entwickelten ein lebendiges Theaterleben. Die letzten Gefangenen wurden Ende 1919 entlassen. || Zahlreiche Informationsblätter zu Theateraufführungen im Kriegsgefangenenlager Stobs in Schottland.

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