My German Prisons / Being the Experiences of an Officer During Two and a Half Years as a Prisoner of War

by Horace Gray Gilliland

From the portrait by C. Percival Small, Esq.

My German Prisons

BEING THE EXPERIENCES OF AN OFFICER
DURING TWO AND A HALF YEARS AS A
PRISONER OF WAR
BY
CAPTAIN H. G. GILLILAND
LOYAL NORTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT
HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO
MCMXVIII

Printed in Great Britain by Hazell, Watson & Finey, Ld.,
London and Aylesbury.

DEDICATED
TO
MR. JAMES W. GERARD
Late U.S.A. Ambassador to the Imperial Court at Berlin
TO WHOM EVERY BRITISH PRISONER
OWES A DEBT OF GRATITUDE WHICH
CAN NEVER BE REPAID

H. G. G.

PREFACE

The writer has been so constantly and earnestly appealed to to write his experiences, and so weary recounting them, that he has at last decided to put into print a short account of things as they really happened within his own personal knowledge during his two and a half years’ imprisonment in Germany. He is also encouraged to do so for other and more important reasons. There are so many people throughout our Empire who are unfortunate enough to have intimate friends and relations in captivity in Germany. In the opinion of the writer these people ought to know, from one who has had a bitter experience, to which these pages will testify, the true conditions under which those nearest and dearest to them exist.

To those who are more fortunate, and who may be inclined to be sceptical towards the newspaper reports of German brutality, it is hoped this narrative will come as a revelation.