Real-life story of Scottish vicar whose fiery sermons inspired The Great Escape

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Rev Murdo Ewen Macdonald saw it as his Christian duty to try and escape - and said it was the saddest day of his life when 50 of his fellow prisoners of war were executed for their escape attempt

Rev Murdo Ewen Macdonald, who joined the Army as a chaplain and became a paratrooper, was wounded and captured in North Africa.

 

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