User:Davidchamberlin

With reference to the 'Great Escape', other escapes from Stalag Luft 111, information involving Squadron Leader Roger Bushell RAF and the paragraph headed "Delousing Break", I would like to correct information given concerning Pilot Officer Walter Morison RAF. It is stated that Walter Morison was 'shot down' whilst flying a Wellington Bomber. In fact he was involved in a mid-air collision with my Father's (Sgt/Pilot Guy H Chamberlin) Wellington of 156 Squadron from RAF Alconbury in the early hours of 6th June 1942 when the target was Essen. Both aircraft crashed at the town of Geldern; Walter Morison having managed to bail out and all remaining members of both crews were buried in the same row in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery at Kleve. Walter briefly refers to this incident in his book "Flak and Ferrets' and told me that he recollected slicing off the tail fin of my father's aircraft with his starboard wing, before both aircraft spun into the ground.

I knew Walter Morison personally, having contacted him in 1993 whilst researching the circumstances of my father's death. It transpired, whilst going through his pilot's logbook, that he had been my father's instructor for night-flying on Wellingtons at RAF Lossiemouth in December 1941. He lived at Bosham, W.Sussex, not more than 1/2 hour from my own home in Botley Hants and accepted my invitation to talk to my Probus Club about his experiences in Stalag Luft 111 and Colditz, where I put up his slides while he did the talking! Davidchamberlin (talk) 15:38, 11 February 2010 (UTC)