Template:Did you know nominations/Charles Clarke (RAF officer)
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:27, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
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Charles Clarke (RAF officer)[edit]
- ... that Charles Clarke acted as a "watcher" for The Great Escape? Source: "arrived only a few weeks before the Great Escape took place and as a result only played a minor part as a watcher, not a tunneller or an escapee" (The Times)
- ALT1:... that Charles Clarke acted as a "watcher" for The Great Escape, but was not liberated from his POW camp until a year later? Source: "he was freed by the British 11th Armoured Division at the end of April in 1945." (RAFA)
- ALT2:... that Charles Clarke acted as a "watcher" for The Great Escape and helped forge papers for the escapees? Source: "A decent draughtsman, he also helped with preparing the escapees’ forged papers." (The Times)
Created by Gaia Octavia Agrippa (talk). Self-nominated at 00:08, 19 June 2019 (UTC).
Article is in date and long enough, is well cited and meets all policies. The Times obituary is behind a paywall, but details of ALT0 and ALT1 are confirmed in other sources used in the article, and 
AGF on ALT2. QPQ has been done. Nothing significant on the copyvio check. The hooks are interesting, the one point I wonder on is the context. To British, and perhaps Commonwealth and European readers, The Great Escape means the Stalag Luft III escape in the Second World War, and the film of that name, but I wonder if it is globally well-known enough for the absence of anything else to give context, such as a date perhaps, or a link to the section of the camp's article (I'm a little surprised that the escape doesn't have its own article!) However it might be that I'm worrying unneccesarily, or that it would help to encourage people to click on the article to find more. Either way, happy to leave this to yours, and/or the promoter's discretion. Spokoyni (talk) 22:58, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you Spokoyni for the review. It hadn't occurred to me (as a Brit) that The Great Escape might mean something else to a lot of people, especially with the film. But as you've said, it might make it more hooky! Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 14:16, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
