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Description: | Ts transcription (14pp) of a detailed and evocative account written in December 1918 of his experiences as a prisoner of war while a Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War, particularly referring to two escape attempts in which he was involved; the first (March 1917) while being transferred from the mixed camp with British, French and Russian officers at Bischofswerda, Saxony to the all-British camp at Crefeld involving jumping from a moving train and reaching within a mile of the Dutch border near Venlo before being re-captured, his arrival at Crefeld where he was sentenced to five months solitary confinement, describing his methods for surviving such and other escape attempts by officers such as Lieutenant Insall VC, his move to another camp at Schwarmstedt where a Captain Morritt was shot attempting to escape; then to Holzminden camp under Hauptmann Niemeyer (September 1917) where, over a period of months, 20 officers manage to escape before their route was discovered, the construction of a tunnel in which his skills as an engineer proved invaluable, his release in a prisoner exchange before the tunnel was completed, before others took over the plan which resulted in 29 officers escaping on the night of 23/24 July 1918.
Cataloguer AJC | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 3rd Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force Canadian Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Greene, Gerald E D | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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