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The views expressed in this post are the author's own. Want to post on Patch? Register for a user account. Gresham Harkless , Neighbor. There were two main problems to be considered — How to get rid of the dirt that was dug away and how to prevent the tunnels from collapsing.

In order to prevent the tunnels from collapsing they had to be shored up with wood. The prisoners used bed boards for this task and as the tunnels grew longer and more wood was needed many prisoners found themselves sleeping uncomfortably on beds with little support.

Some even converted their beds to hammocks. The picture right shows how the bed boards were used. Getting rid of the dirt from the tunnels was problematic because the earth removed was a different colour to the earth around the camp. One method used was to construct long bags which could be filled with earth then hidden in the trouser legs.

A cord around the neck would open the bags thus releasing the earth on a patch of ground that was being dug or cultivated by another prisoner. More than tons of earth was disposed of in this way. Another method involved filling empty Red Cross boxes, placing the boxes in the middle of a group of men who would then gradually bury the earth.

Other important members of the Escape Committee were the forgers who made maps and forged papers and the tailors who made civilian clothes out of blankets and other materials that were scrounged and altered uniforms. The picture left shows a jacket that was used by an escapee.

Lots were drawn for the places and maps, papers and disguises were completed. On the night itself all allotted escapees took up positions in hut