TCD MS 3416 page 62
[June 1916]
orderlies and some of their kit with us, and asked when we should see our orderlies again. We also asked him if he would have the courtesy to allow our servants to go with us, as otherwise officers would have to do menial work – The answer was an abrupt – “No.” We were then marched under a heavy guard with fixed bayonets into an eating house, where we were supplied with food at exhorbitant rates, namely piastres for a small portion of meat in oil, some vegetables fruit bread & a little rice, 50/ piastres is in English money equivalent to 8/s4; we ate it as we were hungry eventually paying 12ps for the meat. We were then photographed, the Commandant seating himself with much gusto in the centre. At 7.30 p.m., we were marched 3 miles to an Empty Agricultural College where 68 of us were put into a room 60 feet long by 40 wide, and a sergeants guard was mounted over us: we were given no opportunity for washing and were without our luggage. We were allowed to leave this room one at a time, under a double sentry, and our remonstrances against this treatment were received with roars of laughter,