13 December 1948. This extract from a letter to his wife from Nazi prison camp, belonged to my mother Rosemary S Andrews. Oliver’s cousin. I am 85 now. Oliver subsequently was one of the famous escapees from Stalag Luft III by using a wooden vaulting horse used over the entrance to the escape tunnel. He made it home solo via a ship from occupied Danzig to neutral Sweden. His book of this escape is called Stolen Journey. He was the pilot of (I think) a Beaufighter when shot down and had to ditch off the Norwegian coast. All his crew survived and boarded a large rubber dinghy. They had difficulty keeping warm.
