The incredible wartime archive of an RAF daredevil who escaped from PoW camps three times has been put up for sale by his family.
Warrant Officer Percy Sekine’s mum was British and his Japanese dad worked for The Mitsui Bank in London.
The fearless teen was already a black belt in judo when he volunteered as a 19-year-old for the RAF at the outbreak of the conflict.
His first brush with death came when he bailed out of a Hampden bomber at 3,000ft over the Netherlands in 1942 after it was hit by anti-aircraft fire.
His two pilots could not escape in time and died when the aircraft crashed but Sekine survived only to be captured five hours later and taken to a PoW camp.
But he soon escaped by climbing over the wire.
He was recaptured and put in Stalag 383 in Bavaria where he set up a judo club, created a dojo and put on tournaments but his eye was always on a way out.
He made two more daring escapes from camps - once going under the wire and once through it.
While at large he joined the queue at a mobile German soup kitchen still wearing his RAF battledress, enjoying a meal before continuing his brave escape.
He also marched in broad daylight through the town of Bad Tolz past a squad of German soldiers before being apprehended.
After the war W/O Sekine became a renowned judo expert post-war, training comedian Tommy Cooper and race car legend Stirling Moss as well as Royal Marines at his Hammersmith judoka.
He weighed only 9.5st but was so proficient he captained the British judo team during the 1950s and 1960s.
W/O Sekine, who had a wife and son, died aged 90 in 2010.
A decade on, his family is selling his archive with auctioneers Rowley’s, of Ely, Cambs, who expect it to fetch thousands of pounds.
It includes previously unseen photos of life in Stalag 383, including his judo group.
Other images are of fellow airmen and him playing golf with WW2 ace Group Captain Douglas Bader, who he befriended in captivity.
Roddy Lloyd, of Rowley’s, said: “After the war Sekine followed his mother’s occupation as a diamond polisher in Hatton Garden, but the lure of judo was too much.
“Percy was an irrepressible character. He escaped and was captured three times in the war and made his mark on the sport of judo afterwards.
“He was training people at his club until he was into his 80s.”
The sale takes place on May 7.
