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The wooden horse in the title of the film is a piece of exercise equipment the prisoners use to conceal their escape attempt as well as a reference to the Trojan Horse which was also used to conceal men within. The Wooden Horse was shot in a low-key style, with a limited budget and a cast including many amateur actors.
Captain Richard Michael Clinton Codner MC (29 September 1920 – 25 March 1952) was a British Second World War prisoner of war, best known for being one of the three men to escape successfully from Stalag Luft III in the escape known as The Wooden Horse.
Ursula Moray Williams (19 April 1911 – 17 October 2006) was an English children's author of nearly 70 books for children.Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse, written while expecting her first child, remained in print throughout her life from its publication in 1939.
Eric Williams MC (13 July 1911 – 24 December 1983) was an English writer and former Second World War RAF pilot and prisoner of war (POW) who wrote several books dealing with his escapes from prisoner-of-war camps, most famously in his 1949 novel The Wooden Horse, made into a 1950 movie of the same name.
Walpole was born in Auckland, New Zealand, the eldest of three children of the Rev Somerset Walpole and his wife, Mildred Helen, née Barham (1854–1925). [1] Somerset Walpole had been an assistant to the Bishop of Truro, Edward White Benson, from 1877 until 1882, when he was offered the incumbency of St Mary's Cathedral, Auckland; [2] on Benson's advice he accepted.
The Wooden Horse was the idea of Lieutenant Michael Codner RA [12] and Flight Lieutenant Eric Williams. [13] They approached Philpot in June 1943 to 'register' their escape scheme with the escape committee, Philpot being the escape co-ordinator for the hut in which the three of them lived. With the scheme approved, Codner and Williams set to work.
Wooden horse may refer to: The Wooden Horse, a 1950 British World War II prisoner of war film; The Wooden Horse, a 1909 novel by Hugh Walpole; Wooden horse (device), a torture device; Hobby horse, a children's toy Hooden horse, a type of hobby horse used by mummers; Trojan Horse, the wooden horse of Troy
Clavileño the Swift is a fictional wooden horse, notable in both European and Near Eastern folklore, also appearing in chapters 40 and 41 of the second part of the adventures of Don Quixote. It is governed by a pin in its forehead. [1] Don Quixote and Sancho imagine they are flying on Clavileño. Ricardo Balaca, 19th century.