211086 LAC Robert Henderson Hutchison Royal Air Force from:14 Astley Street, Hartford, Northumberland As the daughter, and only remaining family, of my Father, Robert Hutchison, I remember with pride the few facts he would tell his family about the war.
He was captured in Kos Harbour in about 1943 where he arrived in a small boat to find the Germans waiting for them. Little else is really known other than he was beaten by the Germans while in camp and that when he escaped, as he did a few times, he lived on cabbage stalks from the fields. He also related that the German doctor in the camp was Luftwaffe and was always kind to the prisoners, so much so that he was shipped off to the Siberian front for his kindness.
He never really spoke much about the war but it had a lasting effect on him and his health as it did with others, our nation forgets what these kind of people did for us.
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