IN PRISON CAMP
AIRMEN ENJOY SUN-BATHING LIFE ON BALTIC COAST In a letter to his parents, Mr and Mrs N. G. Sutherland*, of Hamilton, Sergeant Observer A. Sutherland, who enlisted from Cambridge, states that he was shot down oyer Germany, and that after a period in a camp in the south of Germany he was transferred to the Stalag Luft 2 camp on the Baltic Coast. Perfect weather was experienced during May and June, and prisoners were permitted to do a great deal of sun-bathing, but no swimming. There were several other "New Zealanders in the camp, as well as four Czecho-Slovakian and two Yugoslavian airmen.
In the evenings the prisoners played cards and draughts. Boxing was also popular in the camp.
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Waikato Independent, Volume XLI, Issue 3905, 15 September 1941, Page 5
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122IN PRISON CAMP Waikato Independent, Volume XLI, Issue 3905, 15 September 1941, Page 5
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