Collection THORNYCROFT, NM - THORNYCROFT, Capt Nigel Mytton (fl.1944-45)

Key Information

Reference code

THORNYCROFT, NM

Title

THORNYCROFT, Capt Nigel Mytton (fl.1944-45)

Date(s)

  • 1944-1945 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 box (0.01 cubic metres)

Scope and content

Photocopy of memoir 'Wartime Escapes' includes account of escape from OFLAG VIIB, May 1944, twelve days on the run, recapture, and three months of solitary confinement in a Gestapo prison

System of arrangement

Single file

General Information

Name of creator

(fl1944)

Biographical history

Son of Lt Col Charles Mytton Thornycroft CBE, DSO; born before 1914, probably in Hereford; served with 7th Bn, Norfolk Regt (Territorial Army), 1939-45. captured when serving with Reconnaissance Platoon, 7th Norfolks, Normandy, 1940, and transferred to Prisoner of War Camp OFLAG VIIB; escaped from OFLAG VIIB, 1944, and spent 12 days on the run; captured by Gestapo and spent 100 days in Gestapo prison, died in Zimbabwe, early 1990s.

Custodial history

Photocopy presented by family, Nov 1999

Conditions governing access

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.

Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Existence and location of originals

Original memoir retained by family

Related materials

Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London, holds photocopies of letters from his father Lt Col Charles Mytton Thornycroft (1879-1948) on service in South Africa, 1900-1902

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Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

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Archivist's note

Biographical information from family. Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

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