page_title: Ronald Littledale
section_title: Prisoner of War: Oflag IV-C, Colditz Castle
hierarchical_section_title: Ronald Littledale / World War II / Prisoner of War: Oflag IV-C, Colditz Castle
caption_attribution_description: en:Colditz Castle circa en:World War II taken by a GI.
context_page_description: Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Bolton Littledale DSO was a British Army officer who became a prisoner of war and successfully escaped from Colditz Castle during the Second World War but was killed in action on 1 September 1944.
context_section_description: The three were all sent to Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle, Littledale arriving there on 15 July 1942.
  On 15 October 1942, together with Captain Pat Reid, Lieutenant Commander William E. Stephens RNVR, and Flight Lieutenant Howard D. Wardle, he escaped from Colditz, and travelling with Stephens arrived in neutral Switzerland on 20 October 1942.
  Littledale left Switzerland on 25 January 1943, and with Flight Lieutenant Hedley Fowler, who had escaped earlier from Colditz, travelled across unoccupied France. They crossed into Spain on 30 January 1943, however they were arrested by the Spanish authorities later the same day.
  They were taken to a military prison at Figueras, where they were held in filthy and cramped conditions until 22 February 1943. Then they were taken to the British Consul in Barcelona. From there they travelled to Gibraltar arriving on 25 March 1943.
caption: Colditz Castle (1945)
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