Sir, Thank you for Jack Malvern’s fascinating article on Stalag Luft III at Sagan (Sept 2) He says that the drawing is by an unknown artist. I may be able to help with identification.
My own father, Flight Lieutenant Harold Milford, was one of the escapers, subsequently murdered by the Germans. One of my former neighbours in London, a fighter pilot, had remained in the camp after the escape was discovered and on his retirement in 1979, presented me with a framed pencil drawing of the camp, similar in style to the one in Saturday’s edition. Mine is signed “K. Murphy”, and is dated September 1944. It could be that the artists are one and the same.
My picture will be donated to the RAF Museum after my demise. I never, in common with many war babies, met my father, but the memories must be kept alive.
DAVID MILFORD
Wamin, France