GB 0099 KCLMA Thornycroft, N M - THORNYCROFT, Capt Nigel Mytton (fl.1944-45)

1 box (0.01 cubic metres)

GB 0099 KCLMA Thornycroft, N M 1944-1945 Collection (Fonds) 1 box (0.01 cubic metres) Thornycroft , Nigel Mytton , fl.1944-45
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.

Photocopy presented by family, Nov 1999

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

Single file

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
English

Original memoir retained by family

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

Biographical information from family. Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. Aug 2001

Photocopy presented by family, Nov 1999

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

Single file

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

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English

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

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• anglais