Among the ceremonies marking the 76th anniversary of the Prague Uprising on Wednesday, May 5, was the unveiling of a commemorative plaque to two British servicemen who participated in the uprising and whose daring deed saved many lives. The ceremony took place at a school building on Na Smetance street in Prague’s Vinohrady district, where the two British soldiers devised a ploy that brought about the surrender of a German unit which posed a grave danger to the resistance fighters at the Czechoslovak Radio building.
The voice of British serviceman William Greig, calling for help from the Czechoslovak Radio building where tough fighting was taking place in a revolt that sparked the Prague Uprising, has been played many times from the Czechoslovak Radio Archives. Yet until recently the story of William Greig and Thomas Vokes, two British soldiers who took part in the uprising was not well known.