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Description: | Transcription of a well written account (25pp, written shortly after his return home, covering the period March - November 1918) about his experiences as a RFC pilot flying an SE5 over the Western Front until he was shot down over enemy lines (26 March) and taken prisoner of war, with excellent descriptions of the dangerous duties of a scout, the treatment of his wounds after his capture at hospitals at Mons and then Antwerp, his impressions of the low morale of the Germans, his transfer to Landshut, near Munich, where he was imprisoned in a castle (May - June) before being transported to Graudenz, near the Polish border (June - November), where he suffered appalling food shortages until the arrival of food parcels from home (late July), his successful escape through a tunnel (September), his failed attempt to reach Danzig as he was recaptured a few days later by a local farmer after dislocating his knee, his return to Graudenz and punishment by solitary confinement, with details of the social activities in the camp, other escape attempts and the prisoners' general harassment of the guards, his revulsion at the treatment of other ranks compared to officers, the Armistice and the revolution in Germany, his release (25 November) and journey home via Danzig.
Cataloguer KM
Catalogue date 2006-01-13 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hollis, A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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