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Sometimes, there are paid actors embedded in your group who claim, at first, to be other escapers thrown into your party.

In Brief: Police appeal for lead on escapers, The Age, (Tuesday, 5 April 1988), p.3. In Brief: Two escapers in court today, The Age, (Thursday, 7 April 1988), p.3. In Brief: Escapers in custody, The Age, (Friday, 8 April 1988), p.3. Later, in 1992, Larson was again incarcerated for armed robbery, and was convicted twice in the first part of 2003, for separate assaults on police.

288Burgess (1990), p.271Pegasus Archive - 50 murdered escapers The four men were cremated at Kiel under Gestapo supervision.

Read (2012) p.306 He was one of the 50 escapers executed and murdered by the Gestapo.Andrews (1976), p.

Pages 35-36 In the Zafarnama it states that Timurlane chased these escapers south into the mountains and subdued them.

145 and 151 He was one of the 50 escapers executed and murdered by the Gestapo.Read (2012), p.143Andrews (1976), p.

All the recaptured escapers, including Buckley, Bushell and Day, following a brief period in solitary confinement, were transferred to Stalag Luft I at Barth.

172-173Andrews (1976), p.55Burgess (1990), p.250-252 He was one of the 50 escapers executed and murdered by the Gestapo.Andrews (1976), p.

289 and cremated at Liegnitz by the Gestapo.Read (2012), p.305 Humphreys was one of the 50 escapers executed and murdered by the Gestapo.

They were both recaptured in Adelaide, charged with firearms offences, and extradited back to Victoria.Jail Escapers Extradited, The Sydney Morning Herald, (8 April 1988), p.8.

270 Casey was one of the 50 escapers executed and murdered by the Gestapo.Andrews (1976), p.205 Pegasus Archive – 50 murdered escapersVance (2000), p.317Read (2012), p.

306 He was one of the 50 escapers executed and murdered by the Gestapo.Andrews (1976), p.208Pegasus Archive - 50 murdered escapers Originally cremated and buried at Sagan, he is now buried in part of the Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery. CWGC details - F/Lt HJ Milford Milford's name was amongst those in the list of the murdered prisoners which was published when news broke on or about 20 May 1944.

222 The bodies of this group were cremated at Liegnitz by the Gestapo.Burgess (1990), p.172-173 He was one of the 50 escapers executed and murdered by the Gestapo.

Bill rides off west, and the others ride off to Lincoln. The Pinkertons start shooting at their escapers and Ms. Murphy finds her fathers' gold watch. She turns and sees Bill on his horse in the sunset.

They were caught during the afternoon of the same day at Hirschberg main railway station.AIR40/2645 Official Camp History – Stalag Luft III (Section III North Compound) Taken to the Kriminalpolizei at Hirschberg they met other recaptured escapers, including Bertram "Jimmy" James.Moonless Night by Bertram James page 107 Dodge was the first to be removed from Hirschberg, and was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was later joined by Jimmy James, Harry Day and Flight Lieutenant Sydney Dowse. James Wernham, together with 49 other recaptured escapers, was murdered under Hitler's orders.

Fuglesang was one of the 50 escapers who had been listed by SS-Gruppenfuhrer Arthur Nebe to be killedAndrews (1976), p.34Read (2012), p.304 so was amongst the unfortunate executed and murdered by the Gestapo.Feast (2015), p.

271 He was one of the 50 escapers executed and murdered by the Gestapo.Andrews (1976), p.207Read (2012), p.305 Originally cremated and buried at Sagan, he is now buried in part of the Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery.

30–34Andrews (1976) p.196Burgess (1990), p.270 Catanach was one of the 50 escapers who had been listed by SS-Gruppenfuhrer Arthur Nebe to be killed so was amongst those executed and murdered by the Gestapo.Andrews (1976), p.

34 so was amongst those executed and murdered by the Gestapo.Feast (2015), p.140Andrews (1976), p.205 Originally his remains were buried at Sagan, but he is now buried in part of the Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery beside his brother escapers.

270 The four men were cremated at Kiel under Gestapo supervision.Andrews (1976) p.205 Memorial to "The Fifty" down the road toward Żagań (Espelid at left) Espelid was one of the 50 escapers who had been listed by SS-Gruppenfuhrer Arthur Nebe to be killedAndrews (1976), p.

After the evening meeting, the chosen escapers slipped into the canteen unnoticed. They entered the tunnel and waited for the signal to proceed. Unknown to the prisoners, they had been reported by the bribed guard. Waiting on the grassy area was Hauptmann Priem and his guard force.

This was the first mass escape of the war by British officers, and the first tunnel constructed by RAF POWs to be completed and used. All the recaptured escapers were well treated, and after serving their solitary confinement as punishment for the attempt were all transferred to Stalag Luft I. It is reputed that the German Camp Commandant Major Rumpel gave the escapers a case of champagne with the words "Better luck next time, even if I'm not supposed to say so". After this, no further actual escapes took place from this camp, though others were planned, including one by Wing Commander Douglas Bader, the legless fighter ace, during his brief stay at the camp.

Reportedly Mentioned in despatches for bravery as a prisoner of war (none of the other relevant decorations then available could be awarded posthumously). Those awards to his fellow escapers were published in a supplement to the London Gazette on 8 June 1944, but the award to Long cannot be found there.

En route they were stopped by an SS policeman, but their forged papers were sufficient to pass inspection. They crossed into Switzerland at 0130 on 13 September 1942, and were taken to the British legation at Bern.WO208/3288 Official Camp History O4C - Chapter X para 3 The other four escapers were recaptured close to Colditz.

The two men were interrogated by the Gestapo in Görlitz, Royle was then returned to solitary confinement in Stalag Luft III but Humphreys was one of the 50 escapers who were victims of the Stalag Luft III murders, having been selected for execution by SS-Gruppenführer Arthur Nebe on the orders of Adolf Hitler.

An alternative version states that the two Norwegians were arrested on the Marienhelzungsweg and Catanach and Christensen on the Helm.Read (2012), p.266 The escapers were taken to Flensburg prison.Walker (2015) The four men were handed over to the Kiel Gestapo and after interrogation were told that they would be taken by road back to prison camp.

270[Pegasus Archive - 50 murdered escapers]Burgess (1990), p.270Royal Canadian Air Force – commemorating the murdered airmen Christensen was one of the 50 escapees who had been listed by SS-Gruppenfuhrer Arthur Nebe, reportedly on Hitler’s personal order, to be killedAndrews (1976), p.34 so was amongst the unfortunate executed and murdered by the Gestapo.Feast (2015), p.

Burgess (1990), p.240-241Read (2012), p.84-87 and 108-109Andrews (1976), p.94 and 99 Kidder was one of the 50 escapers executed and murdered by the Gestapo.Burgess (1990), p.271Read (2012), p.305Andrews (1976), p.206 Originally his remains were buried at Sagan, he is now buried in part of the Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery.

Splitting off from their two remaining co-escapers at Philadelphia, the Brileys went to live near their uncle, Johnny Lee Council, in the north of the city. They were captured on June 19 by a heavily armed group of FBI agents and police, who had determined their location by placing wiretaps on their uncle's phone line.

The NCO's and other soldiers were not so lucky. After two months freedom they were again prisoners of war – this time by the Germans. After a series of escapades, by Christmas 1943 Neame, O'Connor and Boyd arrived at Termoli by fishing boat. A further five brigadiers and eleven other escapers arrived the same way by mid-May 1944.

Among them was Colonel Charles Rathborne, the Senior British Officer in the camp, who – on account of his good German – was able to travel by rail without arousing suspicion, and managed to cross the Dutch border after only five days.Rathborne 2016, pp. 100–102. The other escapers travelled on foot, and most took at least 14 days.

Vance (2000), p.264Read (2012), p.240Andrews (1976), p.49Burgess (1990), p.159 they were not seen again, their cremation urn labels stated that they died on 31 March 1944 and had been cremated at Görlitz.Pegasus Archive - 50 murdered escapersAndrews (1976), p.49 and 205Burgess (1990), p.270 He was one of the 50 escapers executed and murdered by the Gestapo.Vance (2000), p.

Ward joined a party of British and American former prisoners of war for repatriation, bound for Odessa. He sailed from there aboard the Duchess of Bedford on 14 March 1945. prisonerofwar.org - John WardWilliamson (2012), p.220 British Escapers - John G Ward (Poland) For his continued bravery serving with the Polish Home Army he was awarded the Military Cross, and the Krzyż Walecznych.

When Athislus, who was pursuing the escapers saw that a precious ring was lying on the ground, he bent down to pick it up. Roluo was pleased to see the King of Sweden bent down, and escaped in the ships with his mother. This account is more elaborate than that of Chronicon Lethrense and Annales Lundenses. Helgo is the same personage as Helghe/Halga.

On 28 March they were moved to Görlitz prison. Milford's cell occupants were Cyril Swain, Mike Casey, Tom Leigh, Jack Grisman, Ian Cross, Sandy Gunn, Patrick Langford and George Wiley.Vance (2000), p.244 Over the next few days the cells filled up as more and more escapers were recaptured and then groups of prisoners began to be removed and the numbers thinned out rapidly.

The escapers, including Day, Buckley, Johnnie Dodge and future Carry On film star Peter Butterworth, were all recaptured within a week. Roger Bushell is believed not to have used the tunnel, instead escaping on the same night from a goat shed in the camp grounds. It is understood that he wished for a slightly earlier start to catch a train for his intended escape route. He was also recaptured.

The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III by Tim Carroll page 192 Dowse and Krol travelled mainly by foot towards the Polish border, but were recaptured just inside Germany on 6 April 1944. They were amongst the last escapers to be re-captured. Taken to the local Gestapo headquarters, they were interrogated, before being separated.AIR40/2645 Official Camp History – SL3(North) page 59 Dowse was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

British Escapers - John G Ward (Poland)Williamson (2012), p.220 Operating with the Polish resistance, he was tasked with facilitating communication between the British government and the Polish underground. From 1941 to 1945 Ward was the communications liaison between the British government and the Armia Krajowa (Polish Home Army); he also worked as a war correspondent for the London Times including over two years in occupied Warsaw. Warsaw Uprising.

National Archives, London. Document Air 40/1897 It is reported that more than half of the escapers and evaders were RAF Bomber Command airmen.Middlebrook (1987), p.712 A recent specialised study of airmen "evaders" shot down over Western Europe states that a post-war summary prepared by British Military Intelligence (MI9) recorded that 695 officers and 1,270 enlisted men had evaded capture; however, the study identified and listed 2,198 airmen.

305 Originally cremated and buried at Sagan, he is now buried in part of the Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery. Commonwealth War Graves Commission casualty – Al Hake Pegasus Archive - 50 murdered escapers Post-war investigation found that a Gestapo agent named Lux led the squad who shot the group of six recaptured airmen beside the autobahn near Halbau on the instructions of a senior officer named Scharpwinkel.Read (2012), p.

Philpot returned with the bags while Codner remained in the tunnel all day to continue the digging. Codner's absence from the evening roll-call was covered and then the horse was used to carry three men to the tunnel: Philpot and Williams, together with a third man named McKay to seal the three escapers into the tunnel.Stolen Journey p. 310. The three broke out just after 6 p.m.

Five hundred yards up the hill there was a barn which was important to the escapers. Officers with special interests had a chance to meet others with similar interests who had been in different camps and that went for birdwatchers particularly. Amongst these were John Barrett, John Buxton and George Waterston. They met once a month in John Buxton's room to record the birds they had seen and had regular talks and discussions.

Camp guards collected so much escape equipment that they established a "Kommandant's Escape Museum". Local photographer Johannes Lange took photographs of the would-be escapers in their disguises or re-enacting their attempts for the camera. Along with the Lange photographs, one of the two sculpted clay heads was displayed proudly in the museum. Security officer Reinhold Eggers made them a regular part of Das Abwehrblatt, a weekly magazine for German POW camps.

Through the hole under the theater they were led to a tower in which they could reach the stairs to the guardroom. The two escapers had to wait a few minutes so Reid and Wardle had time to return to the theater and camouflage all traces of this escape. Luteyn and Neave cleaned and checked their German uniforms and proceeded downstairs to the German guards. Several guards sprang to attention when "lieutenants" Luteyn and Neave passed them.

The "Great Escapers" were placed in Sonderlager A (Special Camp A) within the main camp. Here were housed a handful of other 'political' prisoners, including SOE agent Peter Churchill, two Russian generals, various other Russians, Poles, Italians and four British soldiers of Irish origin.Wings Day by Sydney Smith page 193 Later they were joined by British Commando Jack Churchill. Dowse and James almost immediately began another tunnel, which was kept secret from all non-British personnel.

49Burgess (1990), p.159 they were not seen again, their cremation urn labels stated that they died on 31 March 1944 and had been cremated at Görlitz. Pegasus Archive - 50 murdered escapersAndrews (1976), p.189 and 206Burgess (1990), p.271 He was one of the 50 escapers executed and murdered by the Gestapo. Australian War Memorial - Albert Horace Hake RSL website - with good photo of AH HakeVance (2000), p.289Andrews (1976), p.206Burgess (1990), p.271Read (2012), p.

Catanach and Christensen reached BerlinAndrews (1976), p.55 as they were seen there by other escapers before changing trains to Hamburg which they also reached successfully only to be caught on the next leg of their rail journey from Hamburg to the naval town of Flensburg on the Danish border. Nearing the border suspicious policemen insisted on carefully examining their papers, checking their briefcases which contained newspapers and escape rations. Close inspection of their clothing revealed they were wearing altered greatcoats.

Espelid and his team reached BerlinAndrews (1976), p.55 as they were seen there by other escapers before they changed trains to Hamburg, which they also reached successfully only to be caught on the next leg of their rail journey from Hamburg to the naval town of Flensburg on the Danish border.Vance (2000), p.227 Nearing the Danish border on 26 March 1944 a suspicious policemen insisted on carefully examining their papers and checking their briefcases which contained newspapers and escape rations.

James Catanach and Arnold Christensen reached BerlinAndrews (1976), p.55 as they were seen there by other escapers before changing trains to Hamburg which they also reached successfully only to be caught on the next leg of their rail journey from Hamburg to the naval town of Flensburg on the Danish border. Nearing the border suspicious policemen insisted on carefully examining their papers, checking their briefcases which contained newspapers and escape rations. Close inspection of their clothing revealed they were wearing altered greatcoats.

The dealership located on Van Ness Street and Bush Avenue,Lodi News-Sentinel Friday June 1, 2001 Page 5 Inmate escapers wearing underwear had been a fixture there for decades up to the late 2000s.American City Business Journals Nov 23, 2008 Longtime S.F. auto dealer Ellis Brooks drops new cars - Mark Calvey It was founded in 1939. In 1952 it began selling new Chevrolet cars. Marie Brooks took over the company after her husband had suffered an illness and died.

The six officers were Fowler, Captain Lulu Lawton (British Army), Lieutenant Geoff Wardle (Royal Navy) and three Dutch officers, Lt Beitz, Lt Donkers and Lt Damiaen Joan van Doorninck.WO208/3288 Official Camp History O4C - Chapter II para 21(k) The escape took place on 9 September 1942. All went well as the six escapers and two assistants entered the office during the previous evening and opened up the tunnel. However, around midnight there was an alarm and the Germans searched the castle.

Significant problems developed with rendezvousing with the escorting fighters, with the end result being that all 10 Venturas that crossed the coast were lost to German fighters. Squadron Leader Leonard Trent, (later the last of the Great Escapers), won the Victoria Cross for his leadership in this raid. The Ventura was never very popular among RAF crews. Although it was faster and carried more than twice as many bombs as its predecessor, the Hudson, it proved unsatisfactory as a bomber.

Younger, Calton (1981) No Flight From The Cage.pp 115–124 Aylesbury. W.H.Allen & Co. He assisted two of his fellow RAF NCOs to escape to England via the underground escape route that he established.John Dominy [Sgt. Obs. Ron Mogg] (20 November 1974)Sergeant Escapers Littlehampton Book Services Ltd; First Edition Harold Bennett quotes in his Official RAF liberation questionnaire that he was “a member of the Tally-ho club in Sagan and Heydekrug and helped to gather information and escape kit together.

However, they were betrayed by an informer in the camp and arrested the following day. After a brief stay in the local jail, Day was taken to Berlin and was interviewed by Arthur Nebe, the man who selected the 50 escapers to be murdered, which included Tobolski. Day was spared execution. Day later said that Hitler had ordered his execution personally, but that Hermann Goering had asked him to relent because Day and his family were so well known to the public.

Dothie's detailed citation at TNA file WO 373/60/319.'Early Escapers' at WWII Escape and Evasion. British prisoners being marched away after the fall of Calais, 26 May 1940 In the town, Goldney formed the S/L and AA troops into a reserve for 30th Brigade, which was manning the outer fortifications. On 24 May 30th Brigade's infantry and the S/L gunners were involved in close-quarter fighting and were forced back to the citadel and the harbour.

Issued with prisoner of war number 24, Casey was sent to Luftwaffe prison camp Stalag Luft I at Barth where he met Squadron Leader Roger Bushell. Bushell later masterminded the Great Escape. While held at Barth, Casey was one of a group of prisoners known as "ghosts" who hid from the Germans within the camp for extended periods and did not attend the roll calls to give the impression that they had escaped. This tied up German military and police resources to scour the region for escapers.

Wings Day by Sydney Smith page 212 Placed in the death cells back at Sachsenhausen, all the escapers who had been re- captured were spared execution mainly thanks to Day's efforts under interrogation. In April 1945, after spending several months in solitary confinement Dowse, together with other prominent prisoners (Prominenten), was transferred to the Tyrol via concentration camps at Flossenburg and Dachau. He was awarded the Military Cross for his services as a POW. This award was published in the London Gazette on 16 August 1946.

However, police soon confirmed that they were unlikely to lay any charges against him in connection with the murders as he was believed to have been in Brisbane on the day of the crime.(1 April 1975) Police inquiries extend to six jail escapers, page 3, The Canberra Times. Retrieved 28 September 2018. Police confirmed they were also extending their inquiries to the Northern Territory, after six men had escaped from Fannie Bay Gaol, which had been severely damaged by Cyclone Tracy on 25 December 1974.

Drummer Christopher Weingarten left the band in 2008 but they quickly recruited new drummer Joe Wong and added guitarist Sarah Lipstate, turning them into a four-piece band. This lineup recorded Receivers, the band's fourth album, which was released on October 21, 2008 in North America and November 3, 2008 in the UK through Jagjaguwar. Also released in 2008 was Escapers Two, a record which featured 51 songs in around 29 minutes. On July 10, 2009, Lipstate announced via her website she had left the band.

George Grimson (October 1915 - 4 April 1944) was a bomber crewman serving in RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War. He was shot down, captured and subsequently imprisoned in a succession of prisoner of war camps in Germany before escaping and forming a network which assisted fellow escapers. Grimson remained on the run in the Third Reich, hunted by the Gestapo, but eventually disappeared probably having been captured and murdered by the SS in or after mid-April 1944 in the Danzig area.

Polonezköy or Adampol survives to this day as a small village on the Asian side of Istanbul, about 30 kilometres from the historic city centre. At its inception, the village was inhabited by just 12 people, while at its peak, there were no more than 220 people. Over time, Adampol developed and became populated by emigrants from the unsuccessful 1848 Revolution, the Crimean War in 1853, and by escapers from Siberia and from captivity in Circassia. The Polish villagers engaged in agriculture, animal husbandry and forestry.

Although the four escapers has split up to pretend to be travelling individually they were all in the same railway carriage, more policemen arrived and closely examined every passenger, soon arresting all four suspects. The escapers were taken to Flensburg prison.Walker (2015) Memorial to "The Fifty" down the road toward Żagań (Catanach at left) The four airmen were handed over to the Kiel Gestapo and after interrogation were told that they would be taken by road back to prison camp.Read (2012), pp.23–34 On 29 March 1944, two or three black sedan cars arrived, Catanach was taken in the first car with three Gestapo agents including SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Johannes Post a senior officer based there.Read (2012), pp.24–32 Post had his driver stop the car in the countryside outside Kiel about 1630 hours and called Catanach out into a field where he promptly shot him.Andrews (1976), pp.169–172 The second (and possibly a third) car drew up in the same place shortly afterwards and Post told his agents to get Christensen, Espelid and Fuglesang out, stating that they should take a break before their long drive.

Some were loaded into canal barges for part of their journey, but all eventually travelled by train in cattle wagons. There were some notable escapes, mostly in the early stages of the march. Of the 290 British Army POW escapers who had returned to Britain by the end of June 1941, 134 were members of the 51st (Highland) Infantry Division. As other camps were brought into operation, a large proportion of the POWs were transferred – most to Stalag XX-B at Malbork and Stalag 344 at Lambinowice, but with small numbers in many other camps.

209Pegasus Archive - 50 murdered escapers Originally cremated and buried at Sagan, he is now buried in part of the Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery. Brettell’s headstone has the inscription chosen by his parents: "Those who are nearer to God, Are not farther from us".Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Headstone Schedule form H/2, Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery Brettell's name was amongst those in the list of the murdered prisoners which was published when news broke on or about 20 May 1944.Western Morning News, Dundee Courier, Yorkshire Post, etc.

Operation Jericho (Ramrod 564) on 18 February 1944 during the Second World War, was an Allied bombing raid, at very low altitude, on Amiens Prison in German-occupied France to rescue French Resistance prisoners. Mosquito fighter-bombers breached the walls, prison buildings and destroyed the guards' barracks. Of the 832 prisoners, 102 were killed by the bombing, 74 were wounded and 258 escaped, including 79 Resistance and political prisoners; two- thirds of the escapers were recaptured. Two Mosquitos and a Typhoon fighter escort were shot down and another Typhoon was lost at sea.

They both escaped, ironically, with Hugh Roe O'Donnell in 1592. Hugh Roe returned to Tyrconnell, but the MacShanes were not so lucky. Art died from exposure, having suffered more for his advanced age compared to his companions during his imprisonment, and after having a rock dropped on his foot during their flight from the castle, in Glenmalure, during the escapers' desperate trek towards the land of Fiach McHugh O'Byrne, and Perrot enabled Hugh O'Neill and Turlough Luineach to attack the territory of James O'Donnelly, the main supporter of the MacShanes.

Many of these escapes were successful in the first instance, but virtually all escapers were recaptured within a matter of days. The largest and most celebrated escape was that made through a tunnel, on the night of 23/24 July 1918. The tunnel had been under excavation for some nine months. Its entrance was concealed under a staircase in the orderlies' quarters in Kaserne B. As officers were forbidden to enter the orderlies' quarters, in the early months the excavators had to reach it by disguising themselves in orderlies' uniforms.

From the third floor from the saalhouse and the theater they had made a hole in the floor which gave an entrance to the attic above the guardroom. As they needed an officer who could speak fluent German, the British asked the Dutch to work together. Luteyn and Airey Neave were teamed together and on January 5, 1942, after evening roll call, they were led to the saalhouse by British escape officer Pat Reid and Canadian Howard Wardle. Both prospective escapers were dressed in three sets of clothes - first civilian clothes, second German uniform, thirdly their own uniform.

Andrews (1976), p.209 His remains, which were originally buried at Sagan, were moved in November 1948 to the Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery to lie beside those of his fellow escapers.Commonwealth War Graves Commission casualty – Henry Birkland Birkland’s headstone has the inscription chosen by his parents "Beloved, by family and friends alike, he gave his life, knowing this right".Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Headstone Schedule form H/2, Poznan Old Garrison CemeteryPegasus Archive – 50 murdered escapers Birkland's name was amongst those in the list of the murdered prisoners which was published when news broke on or about 20 May 1944.

After a number of escape attempts, and his dealings with the local Italian black market came to light, he was moved to Campo 5 at Gavi, a fortress north of Genoa used as a high- security PoW camp, where, like Colditz, the "escapers" were confined. One of his fellow inmates was David Stirling, who had established the SAS. After the Italian surrender, the Allied prisoners were entrained for Germany in September 1943. Millar and a companion, Wally Binns, jumped from the train in Germany and made their way from Munich to Strasbourg, where they were separated.

205Burgess (1990), p.271 Originally cremated and buried at Sagan, he is now buried in part of the Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery.Commonwealth War Graves Commission casualty – Lieut. J S Gouws SAAFPegasus Archive - 50 murdered escapers His name is recorded on the official list published by the Royal Canadian Air ForceRCAF Website with list of the 50 murdered officers His name was amongst the 47 murdered officers named in the British press when the story became public knowledge on or about 20 May 1944Western Morning News, Dundee Courier and Yorkshire Post, 20 May 1944Ottawa Journal, 20 May 1944, p.

The circumstances involving the request and the true purpose of the mission are still secret. While it has been purported that the request came from the French resistance, which had members in the gaol scheduled to be executed, a post-war investigation by the RAF revealed that resistance leaders were not aware of the raid until the RAF requested a description of the prison. The bombing enabled 258 prisoners to escape; several German guards were killed along with 102 prisoners and many escapers were later recaptured. A (Most Secret) letter of March 1944 for Menzies, thanked the RAF for the raid.

He had managed to hide in a saucepan cupboard in the security department and the guards had not noticed that he was missing when they locked up the prisoners for the night. Svartenbrandt crawled out of his cupboard after a few hours and unlocked his fellow prisoners' cell doors using counterfeit keys. The escapers included Lars-Inge Svartenbrandt, Bosse Dynamit, Nisse Pistol, Kalle Kanon and the Yugoslav Embassy murderers Miro Barešić and Anđelko Brajković. Together with 15 other hard-hit interns, including terrorist Miro Barešic, he climbed over the "fugitive walls" from what which was called Europe's safest prison, and disappeared.

Basil was not one of the escapers, although he had to witness the repercussions of the various escape efforts once discovered. Before joining the RAF, Basil had met Margaret (Margot) Rafther at Oxford, and she sent him letters and books via the Red Cross to enable him to continue his studies whilst prisoner. They would marry in 1946, following the end of the war. Also in that year, he completed his first degree in Modern History at Oxford, with a Masters from Trinity College, Dublin, Doctorate from Oxford and Doctor of Letters from Trinity College, Dublin to follow.

After the war, Butterworth kept a photo of the concert party line-up, something which offered inspiration to him when starting a career in acting. Butterworth was one of the vaulters covering for the escapers during the escape portrayed by the book and film The Wooden Horse. Butterworth later auditioned for the film in 1949 but "didn't look convincingly heroic or athletic enough" according to the makers of the film. Within the same camp as Butterworth and Rothwell were the future actors Rupert Davies and John Casson, who was the son of Lewis Casson and Sybil Thorndike.

As residents could afford building materials, they would begin to reinforce these reed mats with plywood, bricks, or whatever else they could find. Today the houses are a hodgepodge of building materials, most in a state of continual construction as residents can afford each additional brick. Most have access to electricity, but many still lack running water or plumbing. In just the last couple of years the mayor of Lima has launched an extremely successful program to build concrete staircases, or "escapers", into the hillsides, replacing the treacherous paths and dramatically improving the living conditions of residents.

In reality the escape team were discovered when they attempted to exit a manhole. The Germans threatened to throw grenades down into the sewer chamber and, as the escapers could not reverse back up the sewer pipe, they were forced to surrender. They were immediately put in front of a firing squad, but unlike the fictional TV account, the guards did not fire. As he explained in the IWM tapes, just before the order was to be given, Bruce lost his temper and approached the officer in charge, Eggers, saying "you can shoot us, but after the War we'll hang you".

Bethell participated in "the Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III, he was actively involved in tunneling and hauling away the soil,Vance (2000), p.200 to build the tunnel in which two hundred men were to slip through a tunnel code named "Harry", which ran below the ground and outwards. Due to a calculation error, it surfaced just short of the tree-line which was supposed to give cover to the escapers. The 77th escaper was spotted by a guard around 5am and the alarm sounded. Bethell’s position during the escape was initially at "Leicester Square", the second staging point along the tunnel's length.

Colditz Castle, prison camp (1945) At Colditz all Dutch escapes were coordinated by the Dutch escape officer Captain Machiel van den Heuvel, known as "Vandy" by the British. Van den Heuvel quickly recognised the possibilities of the exercise park and soon had his first escape plan ready. On 15 August 1941 Steinmetz and Hans Larive hid under a manhole cover under the cover of a rugby scrum. Lieutenant Gerrit Dames then created a diversion by cutting a hole in the barbed wire fence, before allowing himself to be caught, shouting to imaginary escapers to run, so that the Germans would think that the missing officers had already escaped.

Espelid was a regular member of the tunneling crew extending the tunnel code named "Harry", and appointed Chief of Intelligence for Norway, tasked with collating all available data which might assist escapers heading for Norway.Vance (2000), pp.175–176 He was one of the 76 men who escaped the prison camp on the night of 24–25 March 1944 in the escape now famous as "the Great Escape". He teamed up with fellow Norwegian Nils Jørgen Fuglesang, James Catanach, an Australian who was fluent in German and spoke Norwegian, and the New Zealander of Danish ancestry Arnold George Christensen in a group heading for Denmark and possibly ultimately neutral Sweden.

270) The four airmen were handed over to the Kiel Gestapo and after interrogation were told that they would be taken by road back to prison camp.LG Corneille website - photos of the 4 escapers after arrest On 29 March 1944 two or three black sedan cars arrived, Christensen was taken in the second (or possibly a third) car which was flagged down by their senior officer SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Johannes Post who stood beside his own car beside the road in the countryside outside Kiel about 1630 hours.Andrews (1976), p.169-172 Post had just taken his own prisoner James Catanach into the field and shot him.

Male and female clothing was collected and an interpreter purloined blank ID cards, passes and official stamps. The Resistance fabricated false identities for escapers; safe houses were prepared in Amiens and far beyond in towns like Arras and Abbeville. A French prison warder sympathetic to the Resistance agreed to sound out other warders and a criminal prisoner had drawn a picture of a master key, made a copy and arranged with a guard to try it out, covered in candle black, for minor adjustments, then made duplicated. As a precaution, the prisoner was also asked to break into the administration offices before escaping to destroy the prisoners' records.

Colditz Castle, prison camp (1945) At Colditz all Dutch escapes were coordinated by the Dutch escape officer Captain Machiel van den Heuvel, known as "Vandy" by the British. Van den Heuvel quickly recognised the possibilities of the exercise park and soon had his first escape plan ready. On 15 August 1941 Larive and Lieutenant Francis Steinmetz hid under a manhole cover under the cover of a rugby scrum. Lieutenant Gerrit Dames then created a diversion by cutting a hole in the barbed wire fence, before allowing himself to be caught, shouting to imaginary escapers to run, so that the Germans would think that the missing officers had already escaped.

His particular responsibility preceding the Great Escape was to forge the documents of the escapers. He had originally been on the list of airmen due to escape from the camp in the daring enterprise, but had given his place to a Polish airman whose wife was due to give birth in England. This man was shot along with other airmen at the direct orders of Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, an order that was one of the pieces of evidence most critical in securing Göring's conviction at the Nuremberg trials. Tindal had had his own escapes - once escaping in German uniform for eight days, before being caught near Hamburg.

In order to lessen their burden, and to occupy any pursuing warriors they spread gold in their path (later in the work, this is referred to as "sowing the Fyrisvellir"), although there was a rumour that she only spread gilded copper. When Athislus, who was pursuing the escapers saw that a precious ring was lying on the ground, he bent down to pick it up. Roluo was pleased to see the king of Sweden bent down, and escaped in the ships with his mother. A young man named Wigg was impressed with Roluo's bodily size and gave him the cognomen Krage, which meant a tall tree trunk used as a ladder.

It also fostered continued friendship between escapers and evaders and their helpers. Air Chief Marshal Sir Basil Embry was the president of the RAFES from its formation until the 1970s. The society was disbanded with the laying up of its UK standard in Lincoln Cathedral on 17 September 1995 and the last president was Air Chief Marshal Sir Lewis Hodges. There remains a small Royal Air Forces Escaping Society Museum at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre in East Kirkby, near Spilsby, Lincolnshire and commemorative plaques sponsored by the RAFES at several locations including; the Royal Air Force Museum London, St Clement Danes Church and the Musée de l'Armée at the Hôtel des Invalides, Paris.

When the banquet had lasted for three days, Urse and Roluo escaped from Uppsala, early in the morning in carriages where they had put all the Swedish king's treasure. In order to lessen their burden, and to occupy any pursuing warriors they spread gold in their path (later in the work, this is referred to as "sowing the Fyrisvellir"), although there was a rumour that she only spread gilded copper. When Athislus, who was pursuing the escapers saw that a precious ring was lying on the ground, he bent down to pick it up. Roluo was pleased to see the king of Sweden bent down, and escaped in the ships with his mother.

Fenton's War – George Grimson As a prisoner in Stalag Luft VI he was involved in the Tally-Ho network, whose acquisition of German uniforms, passes and ration cards from suborned guards enabled Grimson to escape from the camp in February 1944 dressed as a German soldier.RAF Escapers – George Grimson Arriving in Danzig (Gdańsk) he renewed contact with the Polish underground and organised a courier system using Germans on the Tally-Ho payroll. He travelled extensively through north-eastern Germany maintaining contact with the camp and even on occasion returning to its vicinity. Later Grimson secured employment as a boatman in Danzig harbour in which job he was able to pass escapees onto Swedish vessels.

Baker found that the established 'ratlines' for helping escapers to get out of France were significantly disrupted by the landings, and the French Resistance was increasingly interested in becoming an overt force. With assistance only from his second-in-command Captain Pringle Dunn and eight French agents, his unit were able to arrange for 146 people ('escaping Allied airmen or prisoners of war, evaders left over from unsuccessful attacks on D-Day and important political refugees') to get to Britain."My Testament", pp. 75–76. In Operation Marathon he volunteered to go beyond the front lines to rescue a group of 152 Allied pilots who were hidden in the Fréteval Forest near Châteaudun.

Fuglesang and his team reached Berlin as they were seen there by other escapers before they changed trains to Hamburg which they also reached successfully only to be caught on the next leg of their rail journey from Hamburg to the naval town of Flensburg on the Danish border. Nearing the Danish border on 26 March 1944 a suspicious policemen insisted on carefully examining their papers and checking their briefcases which contained newspapers and escape rations. Close inspection of their clothing revealed they were wearing altered greatcoats.Australian Defence Website – Fuglesang and Catanach Although the four escapees had split up to pretend to be travelling individually they were all in the same railway carriage, more policemen arrived and closely examined every passenger, soon arresting all four suspects.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission casualty – Ian K P CrossUnithistories website – career of IKP Cross DFCPegasus Archive - 50 murdered escapers where his parents chose the inscription "Faithful unto death, To his God and Country" for his headstone.Commonwealth War Graves Commission, form H/2 Post-war investigation found that a Gestapo agent named Lux led the squad who shot the group of six recaptured airmen beside the autobahn near Halbau on the instructions of a senior officer named Scharpwinkel.Andrews (1976), p.186 He was amongst the 47 murdered officers named in the British and Commonwealth press when the story became public knowledge on or about 19–20 May 1944Western Morning News, Dundee Courier and Yorkshire Post, 20 May 1944[Ottawa Journal, 20 May 1944, p.

At noon for the week before the raid, the Resistance had about 100 confederates outside the prison and about 16 prisoners in the know, ready for an escape attempt; twelve look-outs were placed in houses near the prison and several fluent German speakers were dressed in SS uniforms with markings recognisable to Resistance personnel. Leading up to the midday deadline, ten gazogene lorries and several cars happened to be in the area, some parked and others passing through; bicycles and velocycles were stashed in houses and shops. The Resistance had several teams hidden nearby armed with Sten submachine-guns, pistols and hand grenades, ready to rush through the prison walls as inmates ran out. Arms and ammunition had been parachuted to the Resistance to arm escapers.

If an escapee was wounded in a crossing attempt and lay on the death strip, no matter how close they were to the Western wall, Westerners could not intervene for fear of triggering engaging fire from the 'Grepos', the East Berlin border guards. The guards often let fugitives bleed to death in the middle of this ground, as in the most notorious failed attempt, that of Peter Fechter (aged 18) at a point near Zimmerstrasse in East Berlin. He was shot and bled to death, in full view of the Western media, on 17 August 1962. Fechter's death created negative publicity worldwide that led the leaders of East Berlin to place more restrictions on shooting in public places, and provide medical care for possible "would-be escapers".

Model of Stalag Luft III prison camp. On the afternoon of 2 July 1941, Król was flying Supermarine Spitfire Mark V (serial number "W3263") on his eleventh sortie, a fighter sweep in the area of St Omer when he was shot down by a Messerschmitt Bf 109 over France. He was captured and went straight into the prison camp system as prisoner of war number 1392.Franks (1997), 2 July 1941 He passed through several camps including Oflag VIB at Warburg before the Germans adopted a policy of banishing persistent trouble-makers and escapers to Stalag Luft III in the province of Lower Silesia near the town of Sagan (now Żagań in Poland). He was amongst the early groups of arrivals in late spring 1942 and he immediately began preparing to escape.

Vance (2000), p.244-245 Regularly groups of officers were taken away by the Gestapo in a variety of vehicles until just Long and Max Ellis remained at GörlitzVance (2000), p.267 They were regularly moved from cell to cell until finally being separated on 11 April 1944. Ellis saw Long on 12 April 1944 and on 13 April 1944 he asked to borrow Long's comb, but was told by a guard that "he left yesterday".Vance (2000), p.268)Read (2012), p.224Andrews (1976), p.64 No trace of Long was ever found. Long was one of the 50 escapers executed and murdered by the Gestapo. Fly for your Life Website – listing of officers murderedAndrews (1976), p.206 RCAF Website listing the officers murdered He was cremated at Breslau.Read (2012), p. 304Andrews (1976), p.

297 On 17 November 1948 Bowes learned of the official British government position that no further trials of war criminals would be taking place and formally placed on record his disagreement with the policy writing to the Provost Marshal of the Royal Air Force and in March 1950 he learned that a Gestapo agent involved in the deaths of the airmen had been acquitted by a German court after trial for killing East European slave labourers and worked to get fresh prosecutions commenced.Andrews (1976), p.200 In September 1954 another Gestapo officer was acquitted in a German court of the murder of four of the "Great Escapers" in the Danzig area, Bowes launched a major push and had the result appealed and a prison sentence awarded.Andrews (1976), p.

136 He became prisoner of war No. 6 held at Stalag Luft III in the province of Lower Silesia near the town of Sagan (now Żagań in Poland). Hake occupied himself with a vegetable patch during the early stages of his captivity but soon his talents at making and fixing things brought him into the escapers group where he developed a production line system to hand make compass equipment for escapers.Docherty (2009), p.242-243 He became a forger of Nazi travel documents and recovering from a mild bout of diphtheria in mid- September 1942 he set up the compass factory in his room in the northern end of Block 103 melting pieces of broken Bakelite phonograph record to be fixed to pieces of razor blade which was duly magnetized.

McGarr was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and moved with his family to Durban, SAMH Website – South African Escapers in 1923. He began his education there but suffered with polio and was paralyzed from the waist down at the age of twelve. McGarr did not give up and working constantly he managed to recover the use of his legs and by September 1930 was able to start high school, he was educated at Glenwood High School from 1932 to 1935 and before graduating he had earned a series of awards for sports and academic achievement and was a member of the first XV Rugby team for his school. Glenwood High School Website – Neville McGarr GlenwoodSchool Rugby team photo He commenced work in the laboratories of Lever Brothers before moving to the Treasury Department of Durban Corporation.

For The Sunday Times, Fleming had commissioned Graham Sutherland to undertake the artwork to accompany the piece, at a cost of 100 guineas, although the artwork was not used in the published edition. As background research to the story, Fleming corresponded with Captain E.K. Le Mesurier, secretary of the National Rifle Association at Bisley for information and to correct some of the more specialist areas of knowledge required for sniper shooting. Part of the background to the plot, of using the noise of the orchestra to cover the crossing over no-man's land, was inspired by Pat Reid's escape from Colditz prisoner-of-war camp, with two escapers having to run across a courtyard under the cover of the noise from an orchestra. The conductor of the Colditz orchestra was Douglas Bader, who played golf with Fleming on a number of occasions.

Fenton's War – George GrimsonJohn Dominy [Ron Mogg] (20 November 1974)Sergeant Escapers Littlehampton Book Services Ltd; First Edition In the late Spring of 1943 he made another attempt which was foiled before hatching a scheme to dress up as a guard with a fake rifle and march 4 prisoners out of the camp. Later he escaped again as the prisoners were being moved to Stalag Luft VI and was seen aboard the same train as the other prisoners however he was travelling in comfort impersonating a Gestapo agent. His plan was based on the confusion he had seen in the move to Heydekrug during which he had impersonated a German "ferret" (security search soldier). Wearing German overalls and leather belt pretending to test the boundary lighting, with a large ammeter fashioned from tins and dangling leads.

Burgess (1990) p.129 Travelling in a group of four escapees with Rusty Kierath, Jerzy Mondschein and Willy Williams, their plan was to catch a train at a small station south of Sagan to Bober-Rohrsdorf near Hirschberg, close to the Czech frontier.Andrews (1976) pp.46–47 They got well to the south of Hirschberg and started to cross the mountains near the border when their papers were challenged on a train and the group was arrestedRead (2012), p.129 and taken to Reichenberg prison.Burgess (1990) pp.156–157 The four were taken from the prison by officials of the Gestapo at 0400 hours on 29 March 1944Read (2012), p133 and were shot and cremated, the cremation urns returned to Stalag Luft III were marked with the date 29 March 1944 and the name of the town Brux.Burgess (1990) p.158 Bull was one of the 50 escapers executed and murdered by the Gestapo.

In 2002, Seligman played at the Shanghai Festival with Snail, along with Chris Bell and Jonathan Klein, and in 2007 began working with the Fire Escapes. In 2011–12 he contributed to Thomas Dolby's A Map of the Floating City also appearing with him on tours of the UK and northern Europe, at the Blue Note in Tokyo in February 2012 and at the Latitude Festival, Suffolk, the UK in July 2012. In 2014, with fellow Fire Escapers Mark Headley and Lucy Pullin, he completed the Magical Creatures' Wishing Machine collection, also appearing live with them at a summer 2016 William Burroughs-inspired launch party in Brighton, UK. In 2017, Seligman, along with Jon Klein and Australian musicians Paul Cartwright and Paul Smyth released the album Monoplane under the name Neon Sisters. The album features both Seligman and Cartwright on basses, Klein on guitar, Smyth on keyboards with guest appearances by Bruce Woolley and David Bridie.

49 In the escape plan his group of escapers were known as "the hard arsers" for their plan to avoid public transport and travel on foot a considerable distance across country. He was one of the 76 men who escaped the prison camp on the night of 24–25 March 1944, in the escape now famous as "the Great Escape". His group did not make a great distance before the alert was raised and the German authorities began a major man-hunt. Birkland was amongst the officers recaptured relatively locallyBurgess (1971) p.270 who were taken to Görlitz prison 36 miles south from Sagan. George McGill, Henry Birkland, Pat Langford, Mike Casey, George Wiley, Tom Leigh, John Pohe, Cyril Swain, Charles Hall, Brian Evans, Wlodzimierz Kolanowski and Bob Stewart were taken away in black cars by plain clothes Gestapo officials on 30 and 31 March 1944 and were never seen alive again.Burgess (1971) p.158 Another account states that on 31 March 1944 a group of 10 officers including Birkland were taken away.

Close inspection of their clothing revealed they were wearing altered greatcoats. Although the four escapees had split up to pretend to be travelling individually they were all in the same railway carriage, more policemen arrived and closely examined every passenger, soon arresting all four suspects. The escapers were taken to Flensburg prison.Walker (2015) The four escapees were handed over to the Kiel Gestapo and after interrogation were told that they would be taken by road back to prison camp. On 29 March 1944, two black sedan cars arrived, Catanach was taken in the first car with three Gestapo agents including SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Johannes Post, a senior officer based there. Post had his driver stop the car in the countryside outside Kiel about 1630 hours and called Catanach out into a field where he promptly shot him.Andrews (1976), pp.169–172 The second car drew up in the same place shortly afterwards and Post told his agents to get the hand-cuffed Christensen, Espelid and Fuglesang out,Barris (2014), p.

Dooley (2007), p. 28 William Carleton's accountCarleton (1830) of this incident is important in that it received widespread readership, having been published a number of times, and became the "standard" account of the affair, even among many of those living in the vicinity.Dooley (2007), p. 17 Many accepted it as being a true account of the atrocity, although Carleton wrote that it was fiction, based on a true event.Dooley (2007), p. 30-33 In Carleton's account the murders were perpetrated by an oath-bound rural secret society, the Ribbonmen, the leaders of which were portrayed as evil and demonic. The perpetrators were avenging the execution of three of their comrades hanged for an earlier raid on Wildgoose Lodge the previous April, following information given to the authorities by the owner of the house, Edward Lynch. According to Carleton's account, they showed no mercy in setting the house ablaze and preventing the inmates of the house from escaping the flames, and piked any would-be escapers, including a child, back into the flames.

212 Distinguished Flying Medal The German Luftwaffe had responsibility for Allied aircrew taken prisoner in North West Europe, and it is on record in numerous biographies that the Luftwaffe personnel running the prisoner of war camps treated captured aircrew properly, with considerable patience and respect and provided food and shelter until the end of the war. Only if a member of aircrew escaped from a Luftwaffe prisoner of war camp was he at risk of falling into the hands of the German Polizei (police forces were subordinated to the SS). Generally escapees were returned to prisoner of war camp, where they would spend time in a solitary confinement cell ("cooler") before being returned to the general population. After a mass escape in March 1944 from Stalag Luft III, a directive from Berlin resulted in the Stalag Luft III murders, an incident in which the Gestapo murdered 50 of the 76 escapees as an example to the Allied airmen that the huge amount of resources expended in searching for and recapturing escapers would not be tolerated.

At 19:43 hours on the evening of 27 March 1941 Long took off in a Wellington Mark Ic bomber (serial number R1335) from RAF Honington to attack a target at Cologne, Germany. They suffered with engine problems but arrived at the target and bombed but at 2248 that night a message was received that the bomber was having to crash land in the Netherlands, it had been badly shot up by a Luftwaffe night fighter. AircrewRemembered Website – Shore & Long The entire crew were made prisoner of war near Limbourg, Belgium.Chorley (1993), p.34 As a prisoner of war he was interrogated by the Luftwaffe before being sent to Stalag Luft I Barth where he and his pilot, John Shore, immediately became involved in escape attempts involving tunneling out of the camp during one of which Shore got out and made it home to England via Sweden.Vance (2000), p.25-26 Long was one of an initial batch of persistent escapers,Carroll (2004), p.63 who were sent to the new Stalag Luft III in the province of Lower Silesia near the town of Sagan (now Żagań in Poland) on 21 March 1942.

McGarr was one of the 76 men who escaped the prison camp on the night of 24–25 March 1944, in the escape now famous as "the Great Escape". When the Germans discovered the escape they began extensive well planned manhunts. Neville McGarr was briefly trapped in the tunnel due to his stature but was freed and escaped into the woods although on the afternoon of 27 March 1944 after surviving the freezing temperatures and blizzards he was recaptured with George McGill and taken to the civil prison at Zagan. He was one of 19 men now recaptured and held there until moved to Görlitz prison where he was in a cell with Keith Ogilvie, Paul Royle and Chaz Hall. Early on the morning of 6 April 1944 Tony Bethell heard a truck arrive at the prison and heard six names being called out,Carroll (2004), p.250Andrews (1976), p.50 Denys Street, Neville McGarr, Jack Grisman, Sandy Gunn, Harold Milford and John F Williams were taken away.Vance (2000), p.267 SAAF Museum – Neville McGarr He was one of the 50 escapers executed and murdered by the Gestapo.