This is the RAF personnel’s camp on the river side west during and after the war. The German prisoner of war camp was beyond where the old iron bridge was over the entrance to the docks, which collaps…
Germans would sometimes get themselves deliberately captured so that they could give the British information (which was often haphazard and out of context) and would then ask to join the British Army.…
Ivan Bateman : "It is apparent from reading the newspaper reports from the time that preparations for War were in full swing well before the actual declaration in September 1945. ARP trial b…
From Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian, Saturday 18 August 1945:
P.O.W.s ON LAND WORK
300 Germans in South Holland
In addition to others who are brought in from camps outside the county, up…
Adolf Weber married Joy Louisa Wright (formerly Winyard, divorced from a man named Eric Wright) when he was 35 years old, in December 1949. Joy was 45 years old. Adolf Weber was a farm labourer by tha…
Translation:
Birth Certificate
Registry Office: Pforzheim
Adolf Weber is born 25th February 1914
in Pforzheim
Father: Roofer Adolf Weber, Protestant
Mother: Friederike Weber, born Lu…