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5th May 1997
ESCAPERS & EVADERS
After 55 years some of the Allied forces most heroic escapers and evaders will be back behind wire in a PoW Camp.
On Satuarday 10th May, Eden Camp will play host to approximately 100 members of the Royal Air Forces Escaping Society and Army PoW Escape Club (Retd.)
All the members of these clubs either escaoed from enemy PoW Camps or evaded capture during WWII and many made a "Home-Run" back to England. Members are travelling from all over - one of the original couriers on the Comete escape line route Andree Dumont (Nadine) OBE, is travelling over from Brussels for the reunion. She was arrested by the Gestapo in 1942 and, after 12 months of interrogatin, ended up in both Mauthausen and Ravensbruk Concentration Camps.
Other members attending include "Doug the Bike", 80 year old ex-S.A.S. man who normally cycles across Britain to attend reunions, sleeping in bus shelters and hedge bottoms along the way. A large number of other highly decorated veterans will also be there.
The majority of the group will be staying in hotels in the local area for the weekend and will visit the Camp on Satuarday where plaques dedicated to the societies will be unveiled in the Chapel at 11.30am and wreaths laid in memory of all those evaders and helpers who did not make it back to freedom.
If you require any further information do not hesitate to contact the museum.
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