joined the Territorial Army at 16 and became a Lance Corporal with the Queen's Royal Regiment by the age of 20 but was captured by German forces in 1940 and spent five years in a prison camp.

During World War II, the British secret service hatched a master plan to smuggle escape gear to captured Allied ... more than 35,000 Allied POWs had escaped from German prison camps.

Before leaving Rolla yesterday, another detachment of our troops arrived, with 400 prisoners, captured at the battle of Pea Ridge. The cars were waiting to convey them to St. Louis, and a large ...