C. W. Hill

Who is C. W. Hill?

Lieutenant Cedric Waters Hill was an Australian officer in the Royal Flying Corps who, together with E. H. Jones, escaped from the Yozgad prisoner of war camp in Turkey during World War I. Their epic story was told in Jones' book The Road to En-dor.

Between February 1917 and October 1918, Jones and Hill convinced their Turkish captors that they were mediums adept at the Ouija board. Taking advantage of the greed of the Turkish camp Commandant, with promises of buried treasure via the Ouija board, the two men managed to engineer the circumstances of their imprisonment to favour their escape. Eventually they convinced their gaolers to repatriate them by feigning insanity, arriving home only a few months before the Armistice.

On 5 March 1975, Hill died at his home in Windsor, Berkshire. He was survived by his wife and daughter.