| Journal 5-27-05 Find information on the Internet that discusses prison camps during WWI. Describe the conditions of the camps. Use freighting, telescoping, and splitting the second strategies so that you "show," not "tell." |
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| ~ Unfortunately records of British Prisoners of War during the Great War period are few and far between and those records which do exist are widely scattered, mainly un-indexed, incomplete, and often difficult to access. ~ The War Office "lists", though published weekly, were in fact compiled on a daily basis and consist of whole series of sub-lists under headings such as "wounded", "wounded and missing", "missing", "missing believed killed", "died of wounds", "killed", - these sub-headings meandering into such complicated areas as "previously reported wounded and missing, now reported wounded and not missing" etc., etc., etc. ~ Despite inducements and threats less than sixty out of over two-thousand men in the camp could be persuaded to join this "rebel" unit. It is not unusual to find reference to Casement's activities amongst the repatriated PoW interrogation reports. |
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