'I Escape!' tells the story of Jocelyn L. (H) Hardy OB Bees, 1911. As a prisoner of war in the First World War, he planned twelve escapes from the many prison camps that tried to contain him. Five of these attempts were successful. The book entitled 'An Escaper's Log' by Captain Grinnell-Milne, another First World War escapee wrote this about Hardy - "His reputation as a prison-breaker was, I suppose, the most widely known throughout the camps of Germany, some of his adventures were quite outstanding".
The l928 copy, with an introduction by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the more recent 2014 publication, were gifted to the Archive by K. Goddard OB Adders 1962.
'Yateley in the Great War' was donated to the archive by the author. The inside front page dedication reads - "Presented by the author in tribute to John Coleridge Mills of Yateley and those from this school (Berkhamsted) who fell in the Great War".
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