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Primary school run by headteacher Ruth Perry - who took after own life after it was branded 'inadequate' by Ofsted - is now rated 'good' after new inspection. while staff were attacked as pupils ran riot around the school Pictured: Married headteacher who had sex with a colleague for four hours in his office. Girl, 8, killed in Wimbledon school crash is pictured as her heartbroken family remember their 'intelligent and cheeky' daughter: Second eight-year-old is still fighting for her life and woman in her 40s remains critical. Hope you are getting my letters, darling. I have made another new dress – looks smashing. I still don't go about as much and the weather's been grand lately. Wherever you are dear, I am with you in thoughts and prayers. Please don't worry about me sweetheart, you know I shall always love you with all my heart and be faithful to you – the only one in the world for me. I am keeping fine daily, but miss you and your loving letters an awful lot. So you can guess how excited I've been getting, with the news being so very good. We have had quite a few POWs return here, some after being away for five years. It's almost seven weeks since your last letter – written on Christmas Day, but I keep praying, my darling, that you are in the best of health, getting plenty of good food and keeping cheerful.Įveryone at home sends their love and, like myself, are anxiously waiting for news of you. I still have had no mail from you dear, but I try not to worry too much as I have heard that your camp has been moved, and no doubt you haven't had the chance to write. Rank and Name: Sergeant, AG, Nicholas, Alkamade, RAF.Ĭamp Name and Number: Stalag Luft 3, North Compound, Deutschland (Allemagne)įrom: Miss Pearl Belton, 30 Thomas Street, Loughborough Sticking to his word, his confused captors eventually believed him and he arrived at Stalag Luft III a week later, where his 21-year-old sweetheart would write to him and keep him updated from back home.Ī love letter from Nicholas Alkemade's sweetheart, Pearl Belton "You say you fell from a plane, but you have no parachute," a Gestapo interrogator asked him. Nicholas was interrogated and kept in solitary confinement, accused of being a spy because he lacked a parachute. The incident happened on Mathe same day as the prison break that inspired the film, 'The Great Escape', at the same camp that he was destined for. He was captured and taken to one of Germany's most notorious POW camps of World War 2, Stalag Luft III. Unbeknown to him, a German patrol was nearby. Some time later, he woke up and began to blow his airman's emergency whistle. His fall was cushioned by a fir tree that was surrounded by a soft snow drift. #Daily mail longest freefall i world space full
With death almost inevitable and full of shock, he blacked out during the 18,000 ft freefall.Īmazingly, he survived, suffering only a sprained leg. I backed out of the turret and somersaulted away.
I decided to jump and make a quick, clean end of things. The question was whether to stay in the plane and fry or jump to my death. I had no doubts at all that this was the end of the line. Faced with two unpleasant impending fates, Alkemade decided that he'd rather die quickly by impact rather than burning to death a slower and painful way to go. During one mission, he was tail gunner for a Lancaster heavy bomber, called 'Werewolf', which was heavily damaged by an attacking fighter plane of the German Luftwaffe.Ĭritically damaged and on fire, the pilot jittered one last order over the plane's muffled intercom: "Jump."Īlkemade desperately sought his parachute, but found that it had been rendered unusable by the flames. During World War 2, Nicholas Alkemade was an RAF gunner Sergeant.
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