Fred's German Escape

Sometimes you discover things that throw other info out of the window. The internet (well perople who put things on it) has always suggested that Fred was in Ruhleben prisoner of war camp for a short time. This was obviously great for us as it was really easy to research and also quite an interesting place.

However, we have recently discovered that this is not the case. A journalist, called Mark Rowe, who keeps a blog discovered an interview with Fred in 1914, where he tells of his escape from Germany.Mark was helpful in getting back in touch with me and I have located the full article and it's a brilliant story.

If we had completed our book last year we would have got some fact wrong due to unreliable sources of info. Now we have the Fred account of what really happened to him and there can't be anything better than that.

Here's a link of Mark's blog on Fred. He didn't know about Fred before and just found this one story interesting. I'm very pleased he wrote about it.

http://www.sportsbooks.ltd.uk/blog/post_details/159_freds-amazing-german-fooling-knee