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Description
Mr. Cole tells of his involvement in digging a tunnel and the perspective he had for taking part in this activity.
Transcription
Somebody told me when I was taken prisoner before we were registered, register as a corporal and you don’t have to go out on a working party. Now some of the corporals did go, you know, a lot of them wanted to get out of camp but I was too lazy, I guess, I stayed in camp so I never had to go out on a working party. In our camp they dug a tunnel and we used to tie our pant legs shut and put sand in our pants and we would walk around with Red Cross parcels full of sand and we would be dumping it out. They had good engineers. They dug this tunnel and come up behind the bush on the other side of the fence. Two guys escaped. It wasn’t that the camp was going to escape or anything. I guess it was something to do that we dug the tunnel and they got out and the one guy, he was a Swede, he got back to England and we heard a month or two after. The other guy we never did hear from.