e main
punishment camp. We were there two weeks and then we were split
into small parties and I was slated with my two friends for a
place called Oldenburg. Here they wanted us to go into a moor
and drain the place to grow potatoes. It was from this place
that we made our first serious attempt to escape.

We made a dash for the shelter of the moor. In a few minutes we
heard the baying of a vicious pack of dogs they had sent in
pursuit, but we managed to elude them and struck out for the
Dutch border more than 100 miles distant. We came to the River
Ems four miles from the border of Holland. We could not find a
boat or raft and were recaptured."

MADE FINAL ESCAPE

After undergoing this sentence, Sergt. Edwards and Simmons were
taken to another punishment camp at Salsengen and it was from
here that they made their successful escape on August 21.

The British Consul at Rotterdam arranged the wanderers' passage
to England, where they arrived on the 18th of September. When he
reported in London, Sergt. Edwards had to prove he was alive,
because the records of the War Office had him marked up as dead.
A lot of red tape had to be untangled before the gallant soldier
could be officially brought back from the dead, but at that time
he was still writing to his wife, so that, when she saw her
husband's name in the casualty list, she at once contradicted
the officials by sending her husband's letters and his pictures.

_Postal card to No. 39 Cpl. E. Edwards, P. P. C. L. I. Depot, South
Camp, Seaford, Sussex, England, from Charles Scarfe, who was also
captured on May 8th._

Manor Farm, Interlaken, Switzerland, Jan. 3rd, 1917.

Dear Old Pal Teddy:

Just a card hoping to find you well as it leaves me A-1. Hope
you had a good Christmas. Had a fairly good one myself but hope
we are in Canada next one. Have had enough of being a prisoner
of war. Remember me to all the boys and write soon. From your
old pal, Charlie.

_Postal card to 39 Cpl. E. Edwards, P. P. C. L. I. Depot, South Camp,
Seaford, Sussex, England, from his comrade in the escape._

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