After the long hours of hard work, roll call awaited us and only when it was over did they give us any ‘soup’. It was muddy water, food not even fit for cattle let alone for human consumption. Here and there, if you were lucky, bits of potato floated in the water. It was our only food. At an age when the body is growing and maturing, when the appetite becomes especially strong, hunger had its effect on our bodies, and we quickly became emaciated.
