NOT EASILY HELD
WING COMMANDER BADER BOLD ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM GERMANY. RETAKEN AFTER TRAVELLING 100 MILES. (By Telegraph—-Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, September 29. It is reported from Rome that soon after receiving his new artificial leg, the captured R.A.F. officer. Wing Commander Bader, escaped from a German hospital, but was recaptured four days later 100 miles from the hospital heading for the French coast. He escaped by climbing out of a window and using a blanket to reach the ground. The report says he attempted to escape immediately after the R.A.F. delivered the new leg on August 19 and slipped away from a party which was held to celebrate the arrival of the leg.
The Germans ever since have taken one leg away each night, returning it in the morning. Wing Commander Bader is now in a regular prison camp.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1941, Page 5
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