My father, P/O Tom Wilson, was shot down in May 1943 and interned in the East Compound of Stalag Luft III, Sagan, in what is now Poland. It was from this compound that the Wooden Horse escape was made in October 1943. Tom Wilson was one of the vaulters supporting the escape and also served as a lookout, playing his violin while the sand from the tunnel was being disposed of in the camp barbershop.

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