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| Brigadier W.
F. Anderson CBE, MC and Bar |
b.17-05-1905 - d.27-08-1999
Captured 30-05-41. Arrived Colditz 11-07-41 |
4
Sept 99 |
18
Sept 1999 |
Everyday Life in
Oflag IVC |
| GENERAL GEORGES BERGÉ |
General Georges
Bergé, French army officer and wartime SOE agent, died at
Mimizan in the Landes region of France on September 15 aged 88. He was
born at Belmont (Gers) on January 3, 1909.
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2
Oct 97 |
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| Jack Best, MBE |
b.6-08-1912 - d. 22-04-2000
Captured 05-05-41Arrived Colditz 09-09-42
['Ghost' 05-04-43 to 28-03-44] |
26
Apr 00 |
29
Apr 2000 |
Glider |
Major-General
W. M. Broomhall, CB, DSO, OBE
|
Major-General W. M. Broomhall, CB,
DSO, OBE, Chief Engineer, Middle East Land Forces, 1948-51, died on
January 13 aged 97. He was born on July 16, 1897. ``TUBBY'' BROOMHALL,
is reputed to have acquired his nickname as a prisoner of war in
Colditz.
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17 Jan 95
Times
archives
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Dominic
Bruce OBE,
MC, AFM
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b. 17-06-1915 d.12-02-2000 Captured
09-06-41.
Arrived Colditz 16-03-42 |
3
Mar 00 |
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Major
J.H.C. Chesshire RE
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Captured 08:01:44 Albania. Arrived
Colditz via KZs Banica & Mauthausen
SOE saboteur who wreaked havoc in
wartime Albania until seized by the Gestapo and consigned to Colditz
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15 Oct 2000
see
also
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Cardinal Yves
Congar
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Cardinal Yves Congar, Roman
Catholic theologian, died in Paris on June 22 aged 91. He was born on
April 13, 1904. YVES CONGAR was one of the last survivors of a
remarkable generation of French priest-scholars who made an
incalculable contribution to
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27 Jun 95
Times
archives
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| Major Skelton
('Skelly')
Ginn REME |
Captured 13-06-40 St Valery, France
with 51st
Highland Division. Arrived 20-06-43 from Eichstatt
(Former Times URL
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,60-2001320401,00.html)
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14 Sept 01
Times
archives
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17
Sept 01
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Pat Fergusson
|
John Patrick Fergusson, prisoner in
Colditz Castle, 1943-45, was born on September 2, 1917. He died on
March
15, 2004, aged 86. Colditz inmate who fortified escapers with the vile
but
welcome product of an illicit still.
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25 Mar 04
Times
archives
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Lieutenant-Colonel
Sir Martin Gilliat, GCVO, MBE
|
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Martin
Gilliat, GCVO, MBE, Private Secretary to the Queen Mother, died on May
27 aged 80. He was born on February 8, 1913. MARTIN GILLIAT, soldier
and courtier, would have inspired a magnificent Spy cartoon.
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29 May 93
Times
archives
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Brigadier
J. R. E. Hamilton-Baillie, MC
|
Brigadier J. R. E.
Hamilton-Baillie, MC, persistent prison camp escaper, was born on March
1, 1919. He died on April 16, 2003, aged 84. PoW who took part in some
of the classic prison-camp breakouts before being accorded the accolade
of incarceration in Colditz...
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19 Apr 03
Times
archives
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Captain Mike Harvey
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Captain Mike Harvey, Colditz Castle
``ghost'', died on May 17 aged 82. was born on September 29, 1913. MIKE
HARVEY was captured in the Second World War, and imprisoned in Colditz
where
he had a remarkable experience.
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10 Jun 96
Times
archives
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Lieutenant-Colonel
David Hunter, MC
|
Lieutenant-Colonel David
Hunter, MC, Royal Marines, Colditz veteran, was born on November 24,
1919. He died on September 5, 2001, aged 81. Marine who spent three
spirited years in Colditz and went on to win the MC fighting insurgency
in Malaya IN MA...
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3 Oct 01
Times
archives
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| Lieutenant-Colonel
Cecil Merritt VC |
South Sascatchewan Rgt. Captured
19:08:42 Dieppe. Arrived Colditz 27:06:43 from Eichstatt |
17
Jul 00** |
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| Major Jack
Pringle MC
& Bar |
Captured 28-11-41 North Africa Arrived
Colditz 20-08-44 |
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4
Dec 1999 |
. |
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Commander
Billie Stephens DSC & Bar
|
Captured 28-03-42St Nazaire. Arrived
Colditz 03-09-42. Escaped 14-10-42. Successful home run Billie
Stephens, last surviving wartime escaper from Castle Colditz, died at
his home in Chateauneuf de Grasse, France, on August 3 aged 85. He was
born in Holywood, Northern Ireland, on August 9, 1911. |
15
Aug 97 |
16
Aug 1997 |
Outer Courtyard
from Room 217 |
| Jim Rogers |
b.06-04-1907 - d.04-08-2000
Captured 25-05-40 France Arrived Colditz
01-08-41 Left Colditz for Spangenberg 16-03-43 returned Colditz 17-06-43 |
18
Aug 00
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Alex Ross
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Alex Ross, Seaforth Highlander, was
born on August 14, 1917. He died on September 3, 2002, aged 86.
Seaforth Highlander who stayed in Colditz Castle to help the wartime
ace Douglas Bader.
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15 Sept 03
Times
archives
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23
Sept 2003
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Major-General Alois
Siska
|
Major-General Alois Siska, wartime
Czech bomber pilot, was born on May 15, 1914. He died on September 9,
2003, aged 89. Czech RAF pilot who endured years in Colditz and decades
of hardship under communism.
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3rd Oct 03
Times
archives
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| Capt Charles
Upham VC and Bar |
Captured 15-07-42 Arrived Colditz
14-10-44.
Charles Upham, VC and Bar, one of only three
double VC holders in the history of the decoration, died yesterday aged
86.
He was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on September 21, 1908.
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23 Nov 94
Times
archives
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23
Nov 1994 |
. |
| Sub-Lieutenant
Micky Wynn DSC (Lord Newborough) |
Captured 28-03-42 St Nazaire. Arrived
Colditz
13-01-43. Left Colditz 02-01-45 Repatriated 10-01-45
Lord Newborough, DSC, participant in the St Nazaire raid, died on
October 11 aged 81. He was born on April 24, 1917. As
commander of MTB 74 during the St Nazaire raid of March 1942, Lord
Newborough, then sublieutenant Michael Wynn, RNVR, was charged with a
crucial role in the operation |
.20
Oct 1998 |
17
Oct 1998 |
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Lorne Welch
|
Lorne Welch,
engineer, pilot and Colditz prisoner of war, died on May 15 aged 81. He
was born on August 12, 1916.
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1
Jun 98
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Lieutenant-Colonel
Frank Weldon, MVO, MBE, MC
|
Lieutenant-Colonel Frank
Weldon, MVO, MBE, MC, Olympic equestrian gold medallist and former
director of the Badminton horse trials, died on September 21 aged 80.
He was born on August 2 1913.
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2 Oct 93
Times
archives
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| Lieutenant
-Colonel James de Denne Yule |
17-09-1917-25-12-2000
Former Times Obit URL http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-65723,00.html
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11 Jan 2001
Times
archives
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19
Jan 2001
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