This Is Your Life: Percy Flood

Major Percy FLOOD MBE, MC

THIS IS YOUR LIFE – Percy Flood, charity founder, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in the audience at the King's Theatre, Hammersmith.

Percy, a Major with the Royal West Kent Regiment, was captured by the Germans during the Second World War and imprisoned in Oflag 79, a prisoner-of-war camp in Brunswick, Germany. While in captivity, Percy and his fellow imprisoned officers developed the idea of a boys club, for underprivileged British youngsters, as 'a memorial to the comradeship we have shared in our captivity'.

After the war, Prime Minister Clement Attlee led a national appeal, and the Brunswick Boys Club was officially opened in Fulham, London, by the Duke of Edinburgh in July 1949.

programme details...

Edition No: 32
Subject No: 32
Broadcast date: Mon 29 Apr 1957
Broadcast time: 7.30-8.00pm
Recorded: Mon 12 Nov 1956 8.15pm
Venue: King's Theatre, Hammersmith
Series: 2
Edition: 17

on the guest list...

Albert Manser
Gerald Lambert
Maj Bertie Pond
Capt R A James
Capt Pip Gardner
Richard Jennings
Thomas - son
Patricia - daughter
Mrs Flood - wife
Rev Young
Capt Newbald
Lt Mead
Lt Bannatyne
Capt Peyton
Capt Green
Maj Witheridge
Bill Bowes

production team...

Researchers: Peter Moore, Nigel Ward
Writer: Gale Pedrick
Director: unknown
Producer: T Leslie Jackson

with thanks to Piers Player of the Brunswick Club for his contribution to this page

related pages...

A Charitable Life

the unsung heroes

Stories behind This Is Your Life

a review of the second series

Photographs of Percy Flood This Is Your Life

Series 2 subjects