Coventry hot-shot pilot's part in the Great Escape

Three Big Cheers for Reg!!! What a Bloke!!!

My 100% Total Respect!

They do not make them like this anymore! (Well, very rarely!……)

As you get to the end of the article we learn that he wasn’t actually in THE Great Escape. As near as I can make out from the confusingly written article he assisted with some escapes and was at Stalag Luft 11 at one point.

Takes nothing away from the guy though. I hope he enjoys his classical music for many years to come.

Moggy

As Moggy C said the newspaper has got part of the story a bit confused but it takes nothing away from Reg and his amazing story. I anm sure others could tell similar stories but for their own reasons remain silent.
It is a shame that the more feckless elements of our younger generation have no appeciation of what others went through to save our country from invasion no more than a life time ago.

Typical newspaper exageration, They call him a fighter pilot and show a picture of him wearing an Engineer brevet.
All the same these guys deserve great respect, whatever they did.