Danny42C
Your 8991-92. I had no intention to let the Goons know that I had a false ID.
As to "pay" and "pocket money", to the best of my knowledge there was none for all those insiders of Stalags and Offlags. My 3 or 4 months when in IVB I don't remember any payments whatever. As working PoWs, we were paid small amounts at irregular intervals, never more that 10 to 15 Marks and I don't know how much it was worth in shillings and pence.
Haircuts were few and far apart. In our "working lager" there was an obliging barber who obliged and was paid with cigarettes, either from home parcels or from dreadful Polish fags that came to us from Red Cross.
I was certainly pleased with my RAF pay sitting in a bank account when I got home.
Walter.
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