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Wounded Canadians receiving medical treatment in the trenches.
Major Peter Anderson, Canadas first and highest-ranking escapee.
Private Arthur Gibbons, who was captured at Ypres, 22 April 1915.
Private Arthur Gibbons in the trenches.
The Lusitania medal that was shown to Private Arthur Gibbons when he was in a Belgian hospital.
Gibbons after his return to England. Note that a German surgeon rendered his right leg crippled.
Lance Corporal Thomas Bromley, who was captured at Ypres.
Private Mervyn Simmons, who was also captured at Ypres.
A map of the first escape attempt of Simmons and Bromley. Note how they skirted Frankfurt.
Officers quarters in one of the POW camps where Simmons was held.
Friedrichsfeld POW camp in summer.
Lance Corporal Edward Edwards, who was captured on 8 May 1915.
A page from Edwardss diary telling of his failed first escape.
A POW cemetery at Celle Lager POW camp.
Private Jack Evans, who was captured at Mount Sorrel, 3 June 1916.
A postcard that Private Jack Evans wrote to his mother.
A map showing where Corporal Fred McMullen, who had been captured at Mount Sorrel on 2 June 1916, was apprehended on his first escape attempt.
A class picture showing four escaped Canadian POWs, including Private Jack Evans (front left) and Corporal Fred McMullen (front right).
Private Frank MacDonald and his escape partner, Lance Corporal James Jack OBrien, captured at Mount Sorrel on 2 and 6 June 1916, respectively.
MacDonald as he looked when he sneaked into Holland in May 1917.
A play put on in a POW camp. Note how the woman is dressed.
Postcards showing Friedrichsfeld POW camp.
To Micheline,
who is always there to make me smile and my ideal reader.
And to my parents, Anita and Irving,
who taught me that no Sunday breakfast could
be complete without the words Look it up and
the subsequent rush to the dictionary or encyclopedia.
In the beginning was the Act.
Faust (Goethe)
A decade ago, in my book Baptism of Fire, which tells the story of the Canadians desperate battle in the days following the first gas attack at Ypres on 22 April 1915, I briefly wrote about how Private Nathan Rice and Private John Finnimore and Major Peter Anderson were captured. And then, like the generals who speak of closing down a battle, I ended that book with the end of the Canadians involvement at Ypres.
My next book, The Damned, was different. Every one of the men I interviewed about the battle they fought in between 8 and 25 December 1941 in Hong Kong had been a prisoner of war for more than three and a half years. Men such as Company Sergeant Major George Macdonell and Private Jean-Paul Daillan taught me that although the shooting may have stopped on this or that patch of earth, for prisoners of war, the battle continued for long years. This lesson was underscored by bomb aimer Ian MacDonald, who was shot down in France in April 1942, and the dozens of other men I interviewed (and whose memoirs I read) for
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