256956 Cpl. Alfred Velroy Hubbard British Army Seaforth Highlanders then Lovat Scouts I knew my father, Alfred Hubbard had been a prisoner of war and escaped but he would never talk about it.
He escaped from the route march of prisoners following the terrible defeat of the BEF and the fall of St Valerie in 1939 by dodging into a wood during a halt in the march.
He was later recaptured and then put in a prisoner of war camp and from there he escaped again.
My father was helped by a Belgian family near Lille working on their farm. He was hidden for a while in a ladies hair dressers, aided also by Donald Caskie and the seaman's mission. Later he then met with Colonel Richard Broad 'Snow White & the seven dwarfs' this was their code name.
My father was then again made a prisoner of war in Spain.
He finally reached home and then joined the Lovat Scouts.
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