My great Grandad escaped from POW camp in WW1 and repeated what the guy in front of him said at the train station ticket booth and was sold two tickets which got him to France where he then made it back to scotland. Without this piece of paper none of my family would exist.

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image showing My great Grandad escaped from POW camp in WW1 and repeated what the guy in front of him said at the train station ticket booth and was sold two tickets which got him to France where he then made it back to scotland. Without this piece of paper none of my family would exist.

EhAhKen on October 18th, 2017 at 00:48 UTC »

My great Grandad was a bit of a hero. He was called James Coull and was the coxswain on the Mona Lifeboat during WW2 and saved a whole bunch of people's lives during a storm on 5th December 1939. He has since been immortalized in the Broughty Ferry castle in Dundee, Scotland with a display all about him and some of his belongings are there too.

My Grandad sat down with him in 1978 and had him tell and record audio of his story's of WW1 and in Prisoner of war camp and his time afterwards working on the lifeboats during WW2. They are about four hours long and he speaks with the heaviest of Aberdonian accents so if your not Scottish you might struggle to understand him but here's a link if you want to delve deeper: https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/2020601/contributions_17262.html

(I was asked to repost this as apparently I broke a rule)

seifer666 on October 18th, 2017 at 03:14 UTC »

good thing the guy infront wasnt going to berlin

mferslostmymoney on October 18th, 2017 at 03:18 UTC »

How did he have the money to buy a ticket after getting out of POW camp?