p16 p17 diary
not from book but one of franks images
Readers Letters Peterborough page
Taxing time for RAF war hero. Shown is a drawing called "All day on the beach " painted by war hero Frank Day at the age of 11, His childhood etchings are being sold as postcards for £2.50 for ten. Squadron leader Frank Day took park in the celebrated mass break-out from stalag Luft III, later immortallised in the film "The Great Escape'
Frank Day
17 December 2012
A perfect stocking filler is a former Spitfire pilot’s diaries. “Fearless” Frank Day, who guarded Rudolf Hess and later was shot down, taken prisoner and took part in the Great Escape, always kept a diary, and his illustrated POW diary is published next year.
Day’s schoolboy diaries were written and illustrated at the age of 10 and 11 while he was at the Dragon School, Oxford, in 1927/28. They are now published in a single volume, The Holiday Diaries, and are available from John Sandoe and Daunt Books in London.
Day, who once said “The Nazis treated me better than the NatWest” and who died in 2008, was honoured this year when the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight flew a Spitfire over his home in west Sussex.
