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Unspoken Valour: The Life & Legacy of Squadron Leader Tom Cullen

A new book by Michael Green – out now

Thomas Henry Cullen (Tom), a farmer’s son, was born in Kelvedon, Essex.  Educated at Colchester Royal Grammar School, where he excelled both academically and at sport, he opted to study medicine, entered the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in 1934, and qualified in September 1939, just as the Second World War broke out.

Captured by German paratroopers in 1941, during the Fall of Crete, Tom Cullen was decorated for his “devotion to duty and courage of the highest order”.  Later, he would become one of only 33 men, from among more than 10,000 captured RAF personnel, to escape from a German Prisoner-of-War camp, and make a successful “Home Run” back to the UK, where he returned to active service at RAF Halton. 

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They Stand Beside Us

This book brings together the life and death stories of the 73 former pupils and staff of CRGS who were killed fighting for their country in the Second World War.

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