Waiting to be mustered home to Canada, my father campaigned (in his RCAF uniform) for a member of the Lyle family---Sir Thomas?--- running for Parliament in 1945. Against military and civil law, of course, but who was going to arrest a three-year POW stumping for Churchill and one of the gallant company of The Great Escape?
My father was earlier arrested by the Royal Marines with George Harsh, the American security chief for the Escape who had spent 12 years on a Georgia chain gang and pardoned joined the RCAF, for trying to steal a BOAC Short Sunderland flying boat to get home. Their testimony of spending too much time in the wet canteen got their release.
What a generation of men!
Last edited by King Brown; 08/28/10 07:20 AM.
