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Germans Soldiers Escape from Gilford.
Sydney Burns was a toddler during the last days of the war and one day when he was home in Gilford, County Down he remembers seeing two German prisoners escaping from the prison camp. The prison camp was on Major Uprichard’s Elmfield Estate on the Lurgan Road. I asked Syd to describe the event for me.
‘The Polo fields, that’s what we called them.It was the only thing I can remember about the war. I saw them running across this forty acre field.’ He said.
‘Were you on your own?’ I asked.
‘No, I was with my brother.’
‘What was the prison camp like?’
‘Those Nissen Huts you know. Major Uprichard had built this big tower in the field.’
‘Did the German’s get away?’
‘I don’t know all I remember is seeing them running across the field.’

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