TCD MS 10823 folio 38 recto
[Sept/Oct 1918] There was an excellent British Help Committee in the camp and they used to send us over extra food and wood for the stove, so that we could make tea and do a little cooking on it. The German ration was however not at all bad, a cup of coffee at seven, a bowl of soup at 1.30 p.m. with a large plate of vegetables and a slice of meat: it was in fact far better than the German ration at Karlsruhe or Furstenberg.
There was a library in the camp whence we could borrow books and we were also told that we could write letters, but none ever reached home from there.