Harry Day
Group Captain Harry Melville Arbuthnot Day GC, DSO, OBE (3 August 1898 - 11 March 1977) was a Royal Marine and later an RAF pilot during the Second World War. As a prisoner of war he was Senior British Officer in a number of different camps and a noted escapee.
Read more about Harry Day: Early Life, World War I, Inter War Years, World War II, Prisoner of War, Later Life
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