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Allemagne. Offizier-Kriegsgefangenenlager Gütersloh. Germany My Dear Cyril Many thanks for all your letters. I find
it very hard to write as I have only 4
postcards a month & have to thank
people for parcels. I suppose you like
Stoneyhurst, it seems to me you will
not go to Cambridge for 3 years yet.
The time here of course goes slowley
but all the same passes which is the
great thing. Love Ken
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Gütersloh, 9 May 1916 Nom de l'expediteur: Lt Ken Power Haus B, 55 Kriegsgefangenensendung Rev C J Power SJ, Stoneyhurst College, SJ Stonyhurst Lancs England Lieu de destination:
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Postcard from Lieutenant Kenneth Power, Prisoner of War at Gütersloh prison camp,
Germany to his brother Mr Cyril Power SJ (1890-1980), who was a Jesuit scholastic
studying philosophy at Stonyhurst, Lancashire, England. The Gütersloh prison camp
postcard displays German censor marks. There is a faint boxed 'Eingang 9.5.16' cachet,
which means the card entered the German censors' office on 9th May 1916 (where it
would stay for a period of ten days ‑ to render useless any secret information sent
by the prisoner). The second mark, a boxed 'F.a.' stands for 'Fristgemass abgefertigt',
which means 'Dispatched within stipulated time'. The ringed cachet is the official
'Gutersloh Prison Camp' hand-stamp. The postmark (at top right) shows the card entered
the postal system on 19th May 1916, which was exactly ten days after it was handed
into the camp censors' office. On the reverse, there is a faint 'LONDON PAID' receiving
mark in red - dated 30th May 1916. Lieutenant Kenneth Power R.F.A. was taken prisoner
by the Germans near Hulluch when he was acting as a observing officer with the infantry
while stationed in a quarry. Kenneth and Cyril Power were born in Dublin.