Doctor at War By Ion Ferguson.

Doctor at War By Ion Ferguson.

Publisher: Christopher Johnson, London, 1955, 2nd impression. VERY SCARCE. Good hardback, no jacket. Green cloth boards have some fading and bumping to edges/corners. Faded spine with minor marks. Gift inscription to ffep. Pages are tanned with some light foxing and minor marks. 223 page with photos.

Thomas Ion Victor Ferguson known as Ion Ferguson Royal Army Medical Corps (1913 - 1990) was an Irish volunteer for the British army who escaped from Oflag IV-C, Colditz Castle, during the Second World War.Ferguson was captured by the Germans in Greece in 1941 and held as a POW until 1945. He was moved to Colditz Castle after protesting to the German authorities about the treatment of prisoners. According to Punch magazine, "Dr. Ferguson is a typical Irish rebel who kicked against the authority of senior officers until becoming a P.O.W., when he would not allow the Germans to ill-treat anyone without voluble protest. His intransigence landed him in Colditz. In Stalag IV-D, he coached two RAF prisoners to convincingly simulate schizophrenia, who were consequently repatriated, while waiting for his own repatriation to Britain in the same way.