Parole card | Captain Neil Collins
This parole card allowed officers to leave the prisoner of war camp to go into the local town. It contained a promise that they wouldn't try to escape. My father, Captain Collins did try to escape once, by walking out of the camp with a group of German workers who had come to do some work at the camp. He was recaptured and sent to another camp, where he was given another, similar parole card.
CONTRIBUTOR
Aline Burgess
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LANGUAGE
eng
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INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
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