NOTES

	CHAPTER 1
1.	William Ash with Brendan Foley, Under The Wire, Bantam, 2006, 147.
2.	Private Papers of Wing Commander H. W. Lamond, Imperial War Museum (henceforth IWM) 6293.
3.	Aidan Crawley, Escape from Germany: The Methods of Escape Used by RAF Airmen During the Second World War, HMSO, 1985, 182.
4.	Stalag Luft III Camp History, April 1942–January 1945, The National Archives (henceforth TNA) AIR 40/2645.
5.	Arthur A. Durand, Stalag Luft III:The Secret Story, Louisiana State University Press, 1999, 108.
6.	TNA AIR 40/2645.
7.	Ibid.
8.	Crawley, 29.
9.	T. D. Calnan, Free as a Running Fox, Macdonald, 1970, 163.
10.	William Ash, A Red Square: The Autobiography of an Unconventional Revolutionary, Howard Baker, 1978, 122.
11.	Paul Brickhill, Reach For the Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader DSO, DFC, Collins, 1954, 325.
12.	Ash and Foley, 324.
13.	For full details see www.icrc.org.
	CHAPTER 2
1.	Aidan Crawley, Escape from Germany: The Methods of Escape Used by RAF Airmen During the Second World War, HMSO, 1985, 5.
2.	William Ash with Brendan Foley, Under The Wire, Bantam, 2006, 152.
3.	Richard Passmore, Moving Tent, Pitman Press, 1982, 48.
4.	Ibid. 31.
5.	Ash and Foley, 150.
6.	Paul Brickhill, Reach For the Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader DSO, DFC, Collins, 1954, 324–5.
7.	Ibid. 324.
8.	Ibid. 324.
9.	Ash and Foley, 161.
10.	Patrick Barthropp, Paddy: The Life and Times of Wing Commander Patrick Barthropp, DFC, AFC, Howard Baker, 1990, 58.
11.	Ash and Foley, 158.
12.	Ibid. 159.
13.	Barthropp, 58.
14.	Ibid. 57.
15.	Ash and Foley, 161.
16.	TNA AIR 40/2645.
17.	Crawley, 182.
18.	IWM 6293.
19.	Ibid.
	CHAPTER 3
1.	William Ash with Brendan Foley, Under The Wire, Bantam, 2006, 153.
2.	TNA AIR 40/2645.
3.	TNA AIR 40/2449.
4.	Ash and Foley, 172.
5.	RAF Air Publication 1548.
6.	Aidan Crawley, Escape from Germany: The Methods of Escape Used by RAF Airmen During the Second World War, HMSO, 1985, 5.
7.	Ash and Foley, 161.
8.	TNA AIR/40 2645.
9.	Ash and Foley, 153.
10.	William Ash, A Red Square: The Autobiography of an Unconventional Revolutionary, Howard Baker, 1978, 123.
11.	TNA WO 208/3338/703.
12.	Ash, 115.
13.	Ibid. 117.
14.	Ibid. 119.
15.	Ibid. 121.
16.	Ash, 121.
17.	TNA WO 208/3338/703, interview dated 20 August 1945.
18.	Ash, 117.
	CHAPTER 4
1.	William Ash, A Red Square: The Autobiography of an Unconventional Revolutionary, Howard Baker, 1978, 117.
2.	Patrick Barthropp, Paddy: The Life and Times of Wing Commander Patrick Barthropp, DFC, AFC, Howard Baker, 1990, In fact his father died on 21 November 1954.
3.	Ibid. 53.
4.	Ash, 123.
5.	Barthropp, 54.
6.	Ash, 127.
7.	Aidan Crawley, Escape from Germany: The Methods of Escape Used by RAF Airmen During the Second World War, HMSO, 1985, 59.
8.	Ash, 128.
9.	William Ash with Brendan Foley, Under The Wire, Bantam, 2006, 152.
10.	Ash, 128
11.	Ash and Foley, 163.
12.	Barthropp, 57.
13.	TNA AIR 40/2645.
14.	Ash and Foley, 168.
15.	Ibid. 169.
	CHAPTER 5
1.	Quoted in Simon Pearson, The Great Escaper, The Life and Death of Roger Bushell: Love, Betrayal, Big X and the Great Escape, Hodder & Stoughton, 2013, 120.
2.	William Ash with Brendan Foley, Under The Wire, Bantam, 2006, 161.
3.	William Ash, A Red Square: The Autobiography of an Unconventional Revolutionary, Howard Baker, 1978, 16.
4.	Ibid. 21.
5.	Ibid. 74.
6.	Canada’s Clayton Knight Committee, which encouraged volunteers from the US, had processed 6,700 applications to join the RCAF and RAF by the time America entered the war. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Squadrons.
7.	Ash, 76.
8.	Ibid. 78.
9.	Ibid. 86.
10.	TNA AIR 87/1803.
11.	Ash, 81.
12.	Ash and Foley, 107.
13.	Ibid. 108.
14.	Ibid. 109.
15.	Ibid. 110.
	CHAPTER 6
1.	Arthur A. Durand, Stalag Luft III: The Secret Story, Louisiana State University Press, 1999, 105.
2.	Jonathan F. Vance, A Gallant Company: The Men of the Great Escape, Pacifica Military History, 2000, 9.
3.	T. D. Calnan, Free as a Running Fox, Macdonald, 1970, 172.
4.	William Ash with Brendan Foley, Under The Wire, Bantam, 2006, 174.
5.	Ibid. 176.
6.	Aidan Crawley, Escape from Germany: The Methods of Escape Used by RAF Airmen During the Second World War, HMSO, 1985, 199.
7.	Patrick Barthropp, Paddy: The Life and Times of Wing Commander Patrick Barthropp, DFC, AFC, Howard Baker, 1990, 58.
8.	Crawley, 200.
9.	Calnan, 173.
10.	TNA AIR 40/1908.
11.	Crawley, 200.
12.	Ash and Foley, 180.
13.	Crawley, 201.
14.	William Ash, A Red Square: The Autobiography of an Unconventional Revolutionary, Howard Baker, 1978, 129.
15.	The Gazette, 17 May 1946.
16.	Ash and Foley, 191.
17.	Ibid. 194.
18.	Ash, 130.
19.	Ash and Foley, 195.
20.	Calnan, 170.
21.	TNA AIR 40/1908.
22.	Ash and Foley, 184.
23.	TNA AIR 40/1908.
24.	Calnan, 191.
25.	TNA AIR 40/1908.
26.	Aidan Crawley, Leap Before You Look, William Collins, 1988, 178.
27.	TNA AIR 40/1908.
28.	Richard Passmore, Moving Tent, Pitman Press, 1982, 163.
29.	Private Papers of Sergeant R. C. W. Watchorn, IWM Documents 3553.
30.	Ash and Foley, 201.
31.	Ibid. 204.
	CHAPTER 7
1.	T. D. Calnan, Free as a Running Fox, Macdonald, 1970, 178.
2.	William Ash with Brendan Foley, Under The Wire, Bantam, 2006, 209.
3.	Calnan, 177.
4.	Ash and Foley, 209.
5.	Calnan, 194.
6.	Aidan Crawley, Escape from Germany: The Methods of Escape Used by RAF Airmen During the Second World War, HMSO, 1985, 206.
7.	Robert Kee, A Crowd Is Not Company, Jonathan Cape, 1982, 11.
8.	Calnan, 189.
9.	Kee, 123.
10.	Crawley, 77.
11.	Calnan, 191.
12.	Crawley, 75.
13.	Ash and Foley, 212.
14.	Crawley, 206.
	CHAPTER 8
1.	Henry Probert, Introduction to Aidan Crawley, Escape from Germany: The Methods of Escape Used by RAF Airmen During the Second World War, HMSO, 1985, viii.
2.	TNA AIR 40/1908.
3.	Ibid.
4.	Crawley, 35.
5.	http://www.wartimememoriesproject.co.uk/peterlovegrove.
6.	TNA AIR 40/266.
7.	William Ash with Brendan Foley, Under The Wire, Bantam, 2006, 216.
8.	TNA AIR 40/1908.
9.	Historical Record of IS9, www.arcre.com.
10.	Robert Kee, A Crowd Is Not Company, Jonathan Cape, 1982, 124.
11.	T. D. Calnan, Free as a Running Fox, Macdonald, 1970, 200.
12.	Ibid. 202.
13.	Ibid. 208.
14.	Patrick Barthropp, Paddy: The Life and Times of Wing Commander Patrick Barthropp, DFC, AFC, Howard Baker, 1990, 59.
15.	Calnan, 203.
	CHAPTER 9
1.	T. D. Calnan, Free as a Running Fox, Macdonald, 1970, 214.
2.	William Ash with Brendan Foley, Under The Wire, Bantam, 2006, 221.
3.	Calnan, 215.
4.	Robert Kee, A Crowd Is Not Company, Jonathan Cape, 1982, 124.
5.	Calnan, 214.
6.	Ibid.
7.	Ash and Foley, 223.
8.	Calnan, 215.
9.	Ash and Foley, 224.
10.	Kee, 127.
11.	Ibid. 129.
12.	TNA AIR 40/1908.
13.	Calnan, 218.
14.	Henry Probert, Introduction to Aidan Crawley, Escape from Germany: The Methods of Escape Used by RAF Airmen During the Second World War, HMSO, 1985, ix.
15.	Anthony Barber, Taking the Tide, Michael Russell, 1996.
	CHAPTER 10
1.	William Ash with Brendan Foley, Under The Wire, Bantam, 2006, 226.
2.	Robert Kee, A Crowd Is Not Company, Jonathan Cape, 1982, 147.
3.	T. D. Calnan, Free as a Running Fox, Macdonald, 1970, 221.
4.	Aidan Crawley, Leap Before You Look, William Collins, 1988, 181.
5.	Henry Probert, Introduction to Aidan Crawley, Escape from Germany: The Methods of Escape Used by RAF Airmen During the Second World War, HMSO, 1985, ix.
6.	Ash and Foley, 229.
7.	Patrick Barthropp, Paddy: The Life and Times of Wing Commander Patrick Barthropp, DFC, AFC, Howard Baker, 1990, 59.
8.	Ibid. 60.
9.	Calnan, 230.
10.	Kee, 178.
11.	Probert, x.
12.	TNA AIR 40/1908.
13.	Ibid.
14.	Ibid.
	CHAPTER 11
1.	William Ash with Brendan Foley, Under The Wire, Bantam, 2006, 244.
2.	Ibid. 253.
3.	T. D. Calnan, Free as a Running Fox, Macdonald, 1970, 236.
4.	Ibid. 237.
5.	William Ash, A Red Square: The Autobiography of an Unconventional Revolutionary, Howard Baker, 1978, 30.
6.	Ash and Foley, 256.
7.	Ibid. 261–2.
	CHAPTER 12
1.	William Ash with Brendan Foley, Under The Wire, Bantam, 2006, 267.
2.	Aidan Crawley, Escape from Germany: The Methods of Escape Used by RAF Airmen During the Second World War, HMSO, 1985, 197.
3.	Ibid. 198.
4.	Ash and Foley, 270.
5.	TNA AIR 40/2449.
6.	Ash and Foley, 280.
7.	TNA AIR 40/2449.
8.	Ash and Foley, 279.
9.	Ibid. 282.
10.	TNA AIR 40/229.
11.	Crawley, 90.
12.	Ash and Foley, 283.
13.	Crawley, 93.
14.	Ash and Foley, 285.
15.	TNA AIR 40/229.
16.	Ash and Foley, 286.
17.	Ibid. 287.
18.	TNA AIR 40/229.
	CHAPTER 13
1.	William Ash, A Red Square: The Autobiography of an Unconventional Revolutionary, Howard Baker, 1978, 135.
2.	William Ash with Brendan Foley, Under The Wire, Bantam, 2006, 294.
3.	Ash and Foley, 288.
4.	Ibid. 297.
5.	Ibid. 298–99.
6.	Ibid. 301.
7.	Ibid. 303.
8.	Ibid. 304.
9.	Ash, 139.
10.	TNA WO 208/3338/703.
11.	Ash and Foley, 307.
12.	Ash, 145.
13.	Ash and Foley, 313.
14.	Ash, 141.
15.	Ash and Foley, 316–20.
16.	TNA AIR 40/2449, for all details of Grimson’s escape and subsequent activities.
17.	Ibid.
18.	Richard Passmore, Moving Tent, Pitman Press, 1982, 119.
19.	Ash and Foley, 331.
	CHAPTER 14
1.	John Nichol and Tony Rennell, The Last Escape, Viking, 2002, 15.
2.	Aidan Crawley, Escape from Germany: The Methods of Escape Used by RAF Airmen During the Second World War, HMSO, 1985, 304.
3.	Ibid. 304.
4.	Robert Kee, A Crowd Is Not Company, Jonathan Cape, 1982, 193.
5.	William Ash with Brendan Foley, Under The Wire, Bantam, 2006, 345.
6.	Crawley, 305.
7.	Ibid. 306.
8.	Ash and Foley, 347.
9.	Crawley, 307.
10.	Kee, 206.
11.	Crawley, 314.
12.	Kee, 207.
13.	Crawley, 309.
14.	Ash and Foley, 350.
15.	Crawley, 310.
16.	Ash and Foley, 353.
17.	Crawley, 315.
18.	Ash and Foley, 358.
19.	Ibid. 361.
	CHAPTER 15
1.	William Ash with Brendan Foley, Under The Wire, Bantam, 2006, 364.
2.	TNA WO 208/3338/703.
3.	Captain the Earl Of Rosse and Colonel E. R. Hill, The Story of the Guards Armoured Division, Geoffrey Bles, 1956, 269.
4.	Ibid. 273.
5.	See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlag_und_Milag_Nord.
6.	Ash and Foley, 364.
7.	Rosse and Hill, 275.
8.	David Erskine, The Scots Guards, 1919–1955, William Clowes and Sons, 457.
9.	Ash and Foley, 365.
10.	Ibid. 366.
11.	Ibid. 367.
12.	Erskine, 458.
	EPILOGUE
1.	William Ash, A Red Square: The Autobiography of an Unconventional Revolutionary, Howard Baker, 1978, 153.
2.	Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, interview with William ‘Tex’ Ash, 12 May 1988, 10202.
3.	Brendan Foley, Daily Telegraph, ‘William Ash’, obituary, 30 April 2014.
4.	Interview with Betty Barthropp, July 2014.
5.	Pauline’s account of her encounter with Bill and subsequent events differs in several respects from Bill’s recollections. For further details see www.resistance62.net
6.	TNA WO 208/3338/703.
7.	William Ash with Brendan Foley, Under The Wire, Bantam, 2006, 125.
8.	Ibid. 376.
9.	Ibid. 377.
10.	Conversation with author.
11.	Ibid. 331.
12.	Ibid. 381.