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Pat Reid ("Pat") was born on 13 November, 1910 in Ranchi, Bengal Presidency, British India, is a British Army officer, prisoner of war, author (1910–1990). Discover Pat Reid's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 13 November 1910
Birthday 13 November
Birthplace Ranchi, Bengal Presidency, British India
Date of death 22 May, 1990
Died Place Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, England
Nationality India

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1910

Patrick Robert Reid, (13 November 1910 – 22 May 1990) was a British Army officer and author of history.

As a British prisoner of war during the Second World War, he was held captive at Colditz Castle when it was designated Oflag IV-C.

1932

He was educated at St. Dominic's Preparatory School, Cabra, County Dublin, Clongowes Wood College, County Kildare, and Wimbledon College, London, and graduated from King's College London in 1932.

1933

Reid joined the Territorial Army and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on 16 June 1933 on the General List.

1934

He then trained as a civil engineer, working for Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners from 1934 to 1937, and becoming an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1936.

1935

He joined the Royal Army Service Corps (Supplementary Reserve) with the same rank on 5 June 1935.

1938

He was promoted to Lieutenant exactly three years later on 5 June 1938.

1939

Reid was mobilised for active duty on 24 August 1939, and served in the 2nd Infantry Division, receiving promotion to Temporary Captain on 1 December 1939.

1940

On 27 May 1940, while serving as a member of the British Expeditionary Force during the Battle of France, he was captured by the Germans near Cassel.

He was sent to Laufen castle, Bavaria, designated Oflag VII-C, arriving there on 5 June 1940.

Within days of his arrival, Reid was planning an escape, determined to return home by Christmas.

After seven weeks digging Reid and a group of prisoners completed a tunnel, 24 ft long, from the prison basement to a small shed adjoining a nearby house.

At 06:30 on 5 September 1940, Reid and five others broke out and made for Yugoslavia, only 150 miles away.

Initially they made some progress walking across country at night, but as they entered more mountainous terrain they were forced onto the roads.

The escapees were recaptured after five days in Radstadt, Austria, travelling around 50 miles.

They were stopped by some locals; one of the escapees spoke fluent German, and by himself he might have bluffed it, but as they did not have any identification and the others did not speak German the locals became too suspicious.

Reid was sentenced to a month of solitary confinement, on a diet of bread and water.

As one of the "Laufen Six", Reid was then sent to Colditz Castle, designated Oflag IV-C, a special "escape-proof" camp, arriving there on 10 November 1940.

It was not long before Reid attempted an escape.

He bribed a seemingly willing German guard to look the other way.

1941

On the night of 29 May 1941 twelve prisoners crawled through a sewer pipe from the canteen to an outer courtyard, planning to then descend a forty-foot wall, and then over another wall 12 feet high topped with barbed wire.

However, although the guard had accepted the bribe, he also reported the escape plan to his superiors, and the Germans were waiting for them.

After another spell in solitary, Reid accepted the position of Escape Officer, responsible for overseeing all British escape plans.

1942

Reid was one of the few to escape from Colditz, crossing the border into neutral Switzerland in late 1942.

After the war Reid was a diplomat and administrator before eventually returning to his prewar career in civil engineering.

He also wrote about his experiences in two best-selling books, which became the basis of a film, TV series and board game.

Patrick Reid was born in Ranchi, India, the son of John Reid CIE ICS, of Carlow, Ireland, and Alice Mabel Daniell.

Reid assisted in many escape attempts, some successful, until April 1942, when he was replaced as Escape Officer by fellow member of the "Laufen Six" Captain Richard "Dick" Howe.

Reid finally took his own chance to escape on the night of 14/15 October 1942, along with Major Ronald Littledale, Lieutenant Commander William L. Stephens RNVR, and Flight Lieutenant Howard Wardle RAF.

They cut through the bars on a window in the prisoners' kitchen, and climbed out onto the flat roof of the German kitchen.

They then crossed the brightly lit outer yard, and avoided being seen by a guard.

They entered a storage cellar under the Kommandantur (Commandant's HQ), crawled out through a narrow air shaft leading to the dry moat, and exited through the park.

This escape was much more professional than Reid's first escape, e.g. they had fake identities as Flemish workmen, to explain their lack of fluency in German and French.

They split into pairs, with Reid and Wardle travelling by train to Tuttlingen, near the Swiss border, via Zwickau and Munich.

They crossed the border near Ramsen on the evening of 18 October.

Stephens and Littledale also travelled to Tuttlingen by train, via Chemnitz, Nuremberg and Stuttgart, then followed Reid and Wardle across the border in the early hours of 20 October.

1943

Reid remained in Switzerland until after the end of the war, serving as an Assistant Military Attaché in Bern from 9 March 1943 until early 1946, and receiving promotion to Temporary Major on 1 November 1945.

He was unusually discreet about his duties there, and was in fact working for the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) gathering intelligence from arriving escapees.

1947

Reid left the army on 29 March 1947, but remained a member of the Regular Army Reserve until reaching mandatory retirement age on 15 November 1965.

On that day he was awarded the honorary rank of Major.