page_title: Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp
section_title: Notable prisoners
hierarchical_section_title: Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp / Notable prisoners
caption_attribution_description: English: "The Mess": prisoners in Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp, c.1918. Standing: Lt Norman A. Birks, Royal Flying Corps; Lt George C. Haldane, Argyll &amp; Sutherland Highlanders; Lt Brian Manning, Irish Guards. Seated: Capt F. Griffith, Lancashire Fusiliers; Lt Aubrey de Sélincourt, Royal Flying Corps. Seated on ground: 2nd Lt Erroll Suvo Chunder Sen, Royal Flying Corps.
context_page_description: Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp was a World War I prisoner-of-war camp for British and British Empire officers located in Holzminden, Lower Saxony, Germany. It opened in September 1917, and closed with the final repatriation of prisoners in December 1918. It is remembered as the location of the largest PoW escape of the war, in July 1918: 29 officers escaped through a tunnel, of whom ten evaded subsequent recapture and managed to make their way back to Britain.
  The prisoner-of-war camp is not to be confused with Holzminden internment camp, a much larger pair of camps located on the outskirts of the town, in which civilian internees were held. The internees mainly comprised Polish, Russian, Belgian and French nationals, as well as a small number of Britons.
context_section_description: Edward Donald Bellew, VC (1882–1961), Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross
  Commander Edward Bingham, VC, (1881–1939), Royal Navy recipient of the Victoria Cross
  Algernon Frederick Bird (1896–1957), 61st victim of Baron Manfred von Richthofen
  Arthur Bourinot (1893–1969), Canadian lawyer and poet
  John Keith Bousfield (1893–1945), later general manager of the Asiatic Petroleum Company and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
  Michael Claude Hamilton Bowes-Lyon (1893–1953), son of the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and brother of the future Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
  O. G. S. Crawford (1886–1957), archaeologist
  Gerard Crole (1894–1965), Scottish international rugby union and cricket player
  Aubrey de Sélincourt (1894–1962), writer, classical scholar and translator
  Charles Eaton (1895–1979), later Royal Australian Air Force officer and diplomat
  Christopher Guy Gilbert (1893–1973), 31st victim of Baron Manfred von Richthofen
  F. W. Harvey (1888–1957), poet
  Brian Horrocks (1895–1985), World War II British army general
  William Donald Patrick (1889–1967), afterwards Lord Patrick, Scottish advocate and judge, and later member of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East
  William Leefe Robinson, VC (1895–1918), first British pilot to shoot down a German airship over Britain
  Erroll Chunder Sen (c. 1899 – after December 1941?), Indian military aviator
  James Whale (1889–1957), later Hollywood film director
  F. W. Winterbotham (1897–1990), World War II intelligence officer
caption: Prisoners at Holzminden, including Aubrey de Sélincourt (seated, right) and Erroll Sen (seated on ground)
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