Bidspirit auction | WW2 Colditz POWS Ken Lee

WW2 Colditz POWS Ken Lee 1940, Chief Forger And Peter Allan Mattress Escaper 1941 Signed 40th Anniversary Liberation Of Colditz Cover. Rare Extra Alderney stamps variety numbered 22 of 50. Kenneth Lee, who served in the signals corps, attached the 51st Highlanders, was sent to Colditz, where he spent four years, after jumping train three times while being transferred between camps. While waiting for his name to come up on the escape list - prisoners had to co-ordinate their escape attempts with the international escape committee made up of senior offices from all the nationalities present - Lee became one of Colditz's chief forgers, making passports and passes out of scraps of paper. Peter Allen Former Prisoner of War who escaped from Laufen prison and also Colditz Castle, the supposedly secure medieval fortress in central Germany to which Allied POWs who had tried to escape from other camps were sent. Rare number 26 of 50 issued. Good Condition Est.