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Horace Gray Gilliland
A British Army officer turned his wartime captivity into a vivid firsthand memoir, tracing endurance, escape attempts, and daily life inside German prison camps during World War I. His writing offers a direct, personal view of war that still feels immediate.
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About the author
Horace Gray Gilliland is best known for My German Prisons, a memoir drawn from his experience as an officer in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment during World War I. Contemporary catalog and library records describe the book as the story of his two and a half years in German captivity and his eventual escape in April 1917.
Sources connected with the book identify him as Captain H. G. Gilliland, and First World War records linked to his name place his birth in 1891. The book was published in 1918, with later editions appearing under slightly expanded subtitles that emphasize both his imprisonment and escape.
Because reliable biographical material about him is limited online, most of what can be confirmed centers on his military service and this memoir rather than on his wider personal life. That scarcity makes the book itself especially valuable: it stands as the clearest surviving introduction to his voice, his experience, and the extraordinary episode that defined his writing.