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My dad Mr David Reid was taken prisoner at St Valery in 1940. He was operated on in the battlefield by German surgeons and then taken to Staleg 141. Due to the severity of his wounds he was then transferred to the Val de Grace hospital in Paris. It was at this hospital that a contact of Dr Donald Caskies approached my dad and said that if he could flee the hospital they would help him get home.My dad then tied sheete to-gether and with the aid of other patients he was lowered to the ground. He was then took to a convent where he was hidden by the nuns. Later dressed as a nun he returned to Paris. He scavenged on the streets until an escape route could be safetly arranged for him. Eventually agents took him to an underground French base where he met The Tartan Pimpernel, the Rev Donald Caskie. His escape route took him through Marseilles, Spain and Gibralter where he boarded a Navy warship for the passage home. Unfortunatly this vessel was damaged by German shells and had to return to Gibralter. My dad was transferred to another ship and made it home safely.

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