Key Information
Reference code
Title
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
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.
Repository
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
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Subjects
Place access points
People and Organisations
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.
Script(s)
Archivist's note
Biographical information from family. Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.