View of Cherbourg Hospital and the Camp from the Girls Dormitory c1930

“That fence was up all around the Girls’ Dormitory and part of the Boys’ Dormitory. It was to keep the girls and boys in and keep the others out. They had the old women’s watchhouse in the back yard of the Girls’ Dormitory. I never thought much about being fenced in until I got older and thought about it. More or less protective custody. The boys only had it along one side. There was barbed wire around the veggie garden and the lemon trees – we had our veggie garden along the side of the building. We grew our own veggies in the Boys’ Dormitory.”
— Uncle Rory Boney Sept 2011

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