£60.00 - £80.00
An original signed photograph of Lieutenant Pierre Mairesse-Lebrun in 1940 when an International Polo player and showjumper. He escaped Colditz Oflag IVc on 2nd July 1941 after a walk in the excercise park where all POWs gathered to be counted and be escorted back to the main castle. The Germans had left the back fences unguarded, and Mairesse-Lebrun and Lieutenant Pierre Odry used this opportunity to leave the group, and together ran to the fence at the backside of the park.
Odry catapulted Mairesse Lebrun over the fence where he ran away. The German guards were initially stunned and did nothing at first. Eventually they started shooting at Mairesse-Lebrun without success. Still in his sports clothes, Lebrun hid in a field and via Switzerland reached Vichy France.
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