Mundy, well travelled in India, Africa and the Middle East, must have had a source of information about what life was like in the camp. Many of his descriptions of the good living conditions and the propaganda newspapers tally with what is now known about it. He also describes how local women and children would come and stare at them, as if they were exotic exhibits, through the fence – entirely possible since the camp’s existence was well publicised and documentation shows that as early as 1915 PoWs from the Half Moon Camp were transported into Berlin to play extras in films.