Virtual tour of Colditz including Castle, used as POW camp for Allied officers in WWII.
Contribution to.Captured 13-06-40 St Valery, France with 51st Highland Division. Arrived 20-06-43 from Eichstatt.John Patrick Fergusson, prisoner in Colditz Castle, 1943-45, was born on September 2, 1917. He died on March 15, 2004, aged 86. Colditz inmate who fortified escapers with the vile but welcome product of an illicit still..Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Martin Gilliat, GCVO, MBE, Private Secretary to the Queen Mother, died on May 27 aged 80. He was born on February 8, 1913. MARTIN GILLIAT,