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Description: | Photocopy of an undated ts memoir (pp 3-18 only) describing how the crew of the SS TREGLISSON, on which he was serving as an eighteen year old Merchant Navy apprentice, were interned in Germany on the outbreak of war in August 1914 as their ship was then unloading her cargo in Bremen and were accommodated in a hotel in the town from August - November 1914, during which time they enjoyed good relations with the local people but avoided discussion of the war, before being moved to Ruhleben internment camp near Berlin; and giving a good general account of the lives and routine of the internees in Ruhleben (of whom about a half were merchant seamen) with particular reference to their accommodation in brick-built stables, the monotony of the surrounding countryside, the improvements in their rations once the internees assumed responsibility for their own cooking arrangements and parcels from home arrived regularly, their educational, social and recreational activities, camp newspapers and magazines and relations with their guards, and ending with a description of events in the camp following the Armistice when the guards established a revolutionary Soldiers' Council and the internees prepared for their repatriation, eventually travelling in late November 1918 by train to Stralsund and then proceeding by ship to Leith, from where he returned to a warm welcome at his home in Bristol.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2006-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Short, C B | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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