WARTIME GUIDES

1942-1944 Date name Method of exit Equipment preparation Travel Where arrived March 1942 Cpl. T. McGraph From main camp Well equipped. Civilian clothes, razor, food, money Sheltered 3 months in Toruń, given papers and new identity and escorted by organization to Spain passing all controls Spain via Belgium and France June 1942 S/Ldr B. Paddon RAF From main camp slipped away from a local working party An officer to Toruń for Martial court. Within few hours got away completely equipped: clothes, maps,   money, foreign worker’s papers By slow trains to Gdynia, found no ships, came back to Gdańsk (Danzig) Sweden June 1943 B.S.M. A. Paton Pte. L. Green Through window and wire of working party in Graudenz Well prepared with clothes, papers and contracts prepared Train to Gdynia

Few years ago, we wrote about the escapes routs from Stalag XXA. (see here:  http://bit.ly/2d63n6N ) now we present a summary of escapes from Stalag XXA and the attached working camps.  1940 Date Name Method of exit Equipment preparation Travel Where arrived July 1940 T.S.M. Briggs, R.A.C Walked away from a working party during a day Civilian coat from a Pole, no food. Walked by night. Helped by the Poles. Making for Romania till heard it is occupied – then to Russian frontier August 1940 L./Cpl. A.J. Webb, W.G; Pte J.R. Tomlinson Through single wire around working camp No food Helped by Poles. Walked, chiefly by night. Making for Romania till heard it is occupied – then to Russian frontier August 1940 Cpl. H. Lovegrove Knocked out single sentry at working camp in the evening No food, swam the Vistula River A Polish Labourer gave him a compass a