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Updated: June 5, 2025
But the sight of a crowd of us, on Sunday mornings, stripped bare to our waists, washing and scrubbing the only shirts to our backs, became quite a common sight later, and I must confess that we made merry over this weekly duty for a time. We had not been in Sennelager many days before we discovered to our cost that we were all suffering solitary confinement.
I must have been in a very precarious condition the previous night because a member of a well-known British family who had been interned at Sennelager, but who secured his release about this time, very kindly sought out one of my relatives upon his return home, to whom he communicated particulars concerning my illness and serious condition.
I had also recovered my original diary which had played such a prominent part at my trial in Wesel prison. Now diaries were the one thing in Sennelager which were rigorously debarred.
I stepped forward to ascertain that I was being called by two or three compatriots whom I had left behind at Sennelager, but who had afterwards been released on "pass" and re-rounded up as aliens.
After a short conversation the Prince slipped five sovereigns into the man's hand and bolted before he could be thanked. Unfortunately this poor fellow is still in prison, but he has never forgotten the Prince's kindness. The day after our arrival at Sennelager the Prince came to me and drew my attention to my shirtless condition.
We came out and to our astonishment there were two fellow-prisoners from Sennelager. They were R , a British bank manager, and F , both of whom at the time of writing are still languishing in Ruhleben. They had been granted liberty on a "pass," having mentioned K 's name. He was delighted they had accepted his outstanding invitation and gave them a hearty welcome.
However true this may be in regard to civic and rural life it certainly does not apply to prison and military existence. We were occupying the quarters normally assigned to recruits. Yet Sennelager was absolutely devoid of the most primitive features of a safe sanitary system.
Young girls and raw recruits considered a trip to Sennelager on the chance of seeing a writhing, tortured prisoner as one of the delights of the times, and a sight which should not be missed on any account. They clustered on the path on the opposite side of the road facing the stake, laughing and joking among themselves.
Although vermin did overrun the camps, not only of Sennelager, but of other prisons of whose interiors I made the acquaintance, I can assert truthfully that I was never troubled with the unsolicited company of body lice, and only once or twice discovered one or two unwelcome strangers in my hair. The coarse and harsh German soap effectively rendered my hair untenantable.
The invincible High Seas Fleet upon one of its sporadic ventures into salt water during the very earliest days of the war, stumbled across a fleet of Grimsby trawlers unconcernedly pursuing their usual peaceful occupation. The whole of the fishermen were made prisoners and were dispatched to Sennelager.
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