Description
Escape From Colditz
VE Day postmark
Signed by 12 Colditz prisoners:
The Earl Haig – Scots Greys
Lord Harewood – Grenadier Guards
Brig Davies-Scourfield – King’s Royal Rifle Corps
Sir John Pumphrey – Northumberland Hussars
Lt Cdr John Chrisp – Royal Navy
Lt Douglas N Moir – 3rd Royal Tank Regiment
Major Gen Corran Purdon
Major Alan McCall – Queens Own Cameron Highlanders
Major Peter Parker – 60th Rifles (KRRC) & The Royal Green Jackets
Brigadier Hugo Ironside – Royal Tank Regiment
Major Francis Edwards – 1st Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers ‘B’ Company
Fl Lt Leslie Goldfinch – 228 Squadron RAF who drafted the ‘Glider’
10 issued