KENNETH GEORGE PRICE - DFC AND BAR - Softcover

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KENNETH GEORGE PRICE - DFC AND BAR, A TRIBUTE TO HIS REMARKABLE LIFE AND HIS PART IN THE GREAT ESCAPE FROM STALAG LUFT 111 IN 1944.

This is a story about my father Kenneth George Price DFC and Bar, who came from a relatively poor background to gain a scholarship at the age of 13 to King Henry V111 grammar school in Coventry. He joined the RAF in 1939 and completed 58 bombing trips (missions), before being shot down over Holland in July 1943.

For Ken, each trip was a very scary experience, with enemy guns being fired at them from below and the possibility of being blown to pieces or even worse burnt alive, if the plane caught fire.

The life expectancy for a bomber crew in WW2 was 5 trips. The attrition rate was greater than officers on the front line in WW1.After he was shot down, he was picked up by the Dutch Resistance who exchanged his uniform for a peasant’s costume, but unfortunately, he was betrayed to the Gestapo by a Catholic priest, who was sheltering him. The Gestapo beat him, but eventually he was transferred to Stalag Luft 111 from where the Great Escape took place in March 1944. Ken was a POW for nearly 2 years and played a key role in helping with the escape. He didn’t get out of the camp, and in January 1945 took part in what is described as the “Long March“ from Stalag Luft 111 in bitterly cold weather around Germany.

Over 3 months, nearly 500 miles were covered, with many POWs dying through malnutrition and exhaustion.The war ended on 8th May 1945 and Ken was repatriated to England on 3rd June. He ended the war as a Wing Commander. In peacetime he joined the Ministry of Aviation. Sadly, he died quite young, at the age of 60, due to a great extent his time in Stalag Luft 111.

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A TRIBUTE TO HIS REMARKABLE LIFE AND HIS PART IN THE GREAT ESCAPE FROM STALAG LUFT 111 IN 1944

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