Erlebnisbericht
My escape from Donington Hall
After being caught in Gibraltar during an earlier attempt to return to his homeland, Pluschow and other captured Germans were shipped to Plymouth and then on to the PoW camp at Donington Hall, where he arrived in May 1915. On July 4 he and fellow prisoner Oskar Trefftz broke out by climbing over two 9ft barbed wire fences, before walking 15 miles to Derby where they caught a train to London. They went their separate ways but Trefftz was recaptured at Millwall Docks. Pluschow then stowed away on a Dutch steamer ship at Tilbury docks, talked his way past a policeman in Holland before travelling to Germany by train. Upon his return home he received a hero's welcome and was presented with the Iron Cross First Class.
- Alternative title
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Die Abenteuer des Fliegers von Tsingtau
- Location
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
- ISBN
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9781473827059
1473827051
- Dimensions
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24 cm
- Extent
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ix, 150 Seiten
- Language
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Englisch
- Notes
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Illustrationen
- Keyword
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (where)
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Barnsley
- (who)
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Pen & Sword Military
- (when)
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[2015]
- Creator
- Table of contents
- Rights
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Object type
- Erlebnisbericht
Associated
- Plüschow, Gunther
- Pen & Sword Military
Time of origin
- [2015]
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