The great escape

[jungle1810]

Hello All,
I just had a quick look at Sky Military history on Channel 315, and on the 1st of March 2010, they are putting out a programme about the escape of 70 German P.O.W's from Island Farm camp in Bridgend. This escape took place on the night of10/11 of March 1945. The camp was known as Camp 198 and was renumbered Camp X1 after the escape, and it held a lot of German high ranking officers who were waiting to attend the war crimes trials in Nuremberg. One of whom was Von Rundstedt amongst many others. hut 9 is still on the original site but much the worse for wear now. Please check the date and time of this transmission as I only had a very quick shufti.Details of this escape can be found by typing Island Farm Bridgend on the google search engine plus a web site by Brett Exton. it was funny after it was all over but caused a few problems for the local police and Home Guards etc at the time.
Regards RBD aka jungle

[BRIANM]

HI, Brian.
Read the Island Farm article.I was a L/Cpl in the Llandaff North Cadets(Welch Regt) at the time.We were called out to assist the Home Guard to search between
Fairwater and Llantrisant for the escapers,great fun at the time.Thought i was a realy big lad.
"Pass the Appletons" Brian.

[jungle1810]

Hello Brianm,
Sad to say I am out of Appletons. My next stop is Sainbury's for a bottle of the Estate rum or even some "White Lightning" from Wray & Nephew.
Regards Don