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Background
Oflag IV-C, generally known as Colditz Castle, was a prominent German Army prisoner-of-war camp for captured Allied officers during World War II. Located in Colditz, Saxony, the camp operated within the medieval Colditz Castle, which overlooks the town. The word "Oflag" is an abbreviation of the German term Offizierslager, meaning "officers' camp". The camp held officers who were deemed escape risks or who had already attempted escape from other prison camps. Known for its seemingly impenetrable structure, Colditz Castle became a site of numerous escape attempts, some of which were successful, earning a reputation for the ingenuity and daring of its prisoners. The camp's history and the elaborate escape plans conceived there have been widely covered in postwar memoirs, books, and media.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Martin John Gilliat (8 February 1913 â 27 May 1993) was a British soldier and courtier who served as Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother for 37 years.
Patrick Palles Lorne Elphinstone Welch, (12 August 1916 â 15 May 1998), generally known as "Lorne Welch", was the son of Brig Gen Malcolm Hammond Edward Welch CB CMG, who was born in 1872 in Ahmednuggur, India, to Frederick Gibson Terell Welch and Mary Hawke.
George Alexander Eugene Douglas Haig, 2nd Earl Haig, (15 March 1918 â 9 July 2009) was a Scottish artist and peer who succeeded to the earldom of Haig on 29 January 1928, at the age of nine upon the death of his father, Field Marshal the 1st Earl Haig.
Peter David Tunstall (1 December 1918 â 27 July 2013) was a squadron leader in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and a prisoner of war (POW) held at Colditz Castle.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Archibald David Stirling (15 November 1915 â 4 November 1990) was a Scottish officer in the British Army and the founder and creator of the Special Air Service (SAS).
Willem Romswinckel1900–1965 · military officer
George Haig, 2nd Earl Haig1918–2009 · politician_in_North_Africa_during_the_Second_World_War_E21340.jpg)
David Stirling1915–1990 · military officer