TCD MS 10823 folio 37 recto
[Sept/Oct 1918] At Parchim we were very thoroughly searched, and <a compass & some German money> that I had hidden in the walls of the room were found. The only thing that they did not find were two 50 Mark notes that were in the lining of my waistcoat.
After the energetic time that we had been having, we were very glad to have a few days complete rest. We were in a wooden barrack and each officer had a small room to himself, in which was a bed, table chair, basin and stove. We were not permitted to talk to one another, but we were allowed an hour’s walking exercise in the mornings and afternoons up and down outside the barrack; this afforded an opportunity of which we were not slow to avail ourselves, for communications between the prisoners who happened to be standing at this barrack window & those who happened to be passing in front of it. Sometimes a particularly smart sentry would shout at us and say that he was not blind.