UK POW Camps today

Discussion in 'United Kingdom' started by Andreas, Mar 15, 2015.

  1. jetson

    jetson Junior Member

    No emanuele I did not. The events I narrated in my post were during 1951 well after the war. A number of Italian PW settled around here, South Lincolnshire after the war in the farming sector some having been in the PW camp, Stamford.
     
  2. jeffbubble

    jeffbubble Senior Member

    Moota Camp (Italian) Cumberland
     

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  3. Quarterfinal

    Quarterfinal Well-Known Member

    has been redeveloped, but is remembered in the Brigg Heritage Centre:
    https://www.briggheritage.org/
    with a mix of story boards:

    upload_2023-4-20_19-23-45.jpeg

    and a useful file filled with good number of personal stories and pictures from onetime 'guests' (PW and Displaced Persons), staff and locals, for example Herbert Sadowsky, with a mention of Helmut Luckenbach:
    upload_2023-4-20_19-26-14.jpeg
     
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  4. Ianto

    Ianto Member

    Hopefully this will be of interest here. Below is a link to info about Island Farm, which was the site of the largest escape by German PoWs on UK soil during WW2. Following allied vistory, a number of high ranking officers were held there pending trial.
    Island Farm Bridgend German PoW Camp 198 / Special Camp 11
     
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  5. Denis Sharp

    Denis Sharp Member

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  6. redtop

    redtop Well-Known Member

    Was there a POW camp near Eridge in Kent?
    After the war Our family moved to a farm near Eridge in Kent part of a get workers back on the Farms Gov. Scheme .
    Dad who had fought in North Africa and seriously wounded at El Aghelia found himself working along side Italian POW's

    ,To add to this dad was working alongside Italian prisoners of war (POW’s) who had yet to be repatriated. (Dark skinned, flashing white teeth, black curly hair) We used to take lunch up to dad some days and sit near them whilst he ate it.

    On another note I live in Halstead Essex there were two Camps one in Halstead and the other in a Former US Airforce Camp at nearby HighGarret,
    All that remains of the Halstead Camp is a dropped kerb that was the main entrance the camp area ,now fields,

    The camp at HighGarret is now a Crematorium all that remains of the old camp is a brick built water tower, ,this was hidden behind a skin of new brickwork when the Tower was converted into a dwelling,

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  7. Trackfrower

    Trackfrower Member

    Anything left of Island Farm, near Bridgend?
    The german great escape!
     
  8. Ianto

    Ianto Member

    Indeed there is!
    When I was a kid it was pretty much intact and available as a playground. Now there is pretty much just one hut left, and the escape tunnel - or part of it.
    Currently being maintained and preserved by a local society.
    http://www.hut9.org.uk/http://www.hut9.org.uk/
     

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