FLYER’S ESCAPE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20638, 19 August 1941, Page 4

FLYER’S ESCAPE

WAR PRISONERS’ CAMP OCCUPIED FRANCE CABLE FROM GIBRALTAR (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. A prisoner of war in occupied France since last December, SergeantPilot C. F. Scott, Geraldine, has escaped from enemy hands and is now in Gibraltar. Only two weeks ago his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Scott, received a letter from their son in which he said that he was in hospital in Rouen with both his legs and one arm broken. Sergeant Scott advised his parents that he was safe and well in a cable message which they received to-day, and he sent also the following message from Gibraltar to his cousin, Mr. S. J. Moore, Fendalton: “Escaped. t Feeling fine. Certain win war. Keep smiling. Had lots fun. Best love yourselves, folks, friends." On Christmas Day last year, Sergeant Scott was reported missing on air operations, and three weeks later his parents were advised that he was a prisoner of war in occupied France and was wounded. Then news caine from London in a letter Sergeant Scott had written to friends in London that he was still in hospital and feeling very lonely as all the New' Zealand crew of his aircraft had been moved from occupied France, presumably to a prison camp in Germany. He indicated that he hoped to reach England soon.

Sergeant Scott, who is 23 years of age, was born in Geraldine and educated at Geraldine District High School and Timaru BoyS’ High School. He attended the Canterbury University College and Christchurch Teachers’ Training College and was teaching in Dunedin before he joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force last year.