PRISONER IN GERMANY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 2 September 1942, Page 4

PRISONER IN GERMANY

LETTER FROM WAKEFIELD SOLDIER ENGAGED IN FARM WORK Private Howard Taylor, who was taken prisoner in Crete and is now' in • a German prison camp, writing to his j parents. Mr and Mrs J. H. Taylor. Pigeon Valle}’, Wakefield, stated that he received 200 cigarettes and a parcel of clothing from the New Zealand Patriotic Fund Board. The parcel was very much appreciated. Last year he was employed on farm work. “These t small plots of land look ridiculous to i us.” he writes. "A big cocky here is i one with twenty acres with about half i a dozen people on it. My biggest job. | and the most monotonous, is the mowing cf grass every day for three old j cows. I am an expert now in working ! cows and bullocks as the people I work j for are breaking in a couple, j “There is no need for you to worry about tucker as we are doing fairly ' well although there is not very much j meat. This morning for breakfast I had three eggs, half a tin of beans, half a tin of meat loaf, and a good ration of chips. There was also coffee, bread, butler, and jam and so one can't growl about that. Next time you send a par. cel include some toothpaste which is unprocurable here.’’ In a letter written in January Private Taylor wrote: “There is over a foot of snow on the ground, i have to trudge two miles in it night and mornI ing in the dark, and believe me it is not a very pleasant trip, but I can lake ■ 1