"The Great Escape"

The goings on at Stalag Luft III the night that 76 officers left the prison camp via a tun nel laboriously dug under the wire were recaptured by two Nelson men who were in the camp that night, when the film "The Great Escape" was shown in Nelson earlier this month. The men and their families were guests of the management at the first performance. The two men were Robin Mordaunt and Ian Richmond (Wakefield), A third, Ron King, was unable to be present.

×

 

• 

Wives and children of the two men had a glimpse of life in a prisoner-of-war camp. From left, Brita, Robin and Christine Mordaunt, Barbara, Bruce, Ian and Evan Richmond and Timothy Mordaunt.

×

 

• 

Len Trent, V. C., was one of the last men in the tunnel, and his father Noel (right), brother Austin and nephew Len came over from Takaka to see the film.

×

 

• 

Members of the Air Scouts formed a guard of honour up the stairway of the theatre