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| 20.Jun.2009 10:34 | | To: All |
| Hello - I am a friend of one of the exPOW who used to be in this camp. He visit me regular and was looking at your image which brought memories back. His name is Rolph Rheinlander. He remembers it well. feel free to email if you want any other info. Great site |
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| 6.Jun.2009 23:55 | | To: All |
Hello
Great site.. Thank you for keeping history alive..I hope you will have some new updates... Again thank you!!!! |
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| 6.Jun.2009 23:04 | | To: All |
Hello,
Thank you a very very good site with loads of information, please keep at it and up date it, as more information becomes available ,
Ian |
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| 21.May.2009 8:45 | | To: All |
| Hello :- Re Camp 151, Lawne Camp, Coven near Wolverhampton:- Many years ago, an old friend of the family told me as kids they used to cycle out from Wombourne to Coven to see the POW's in the camp there. For years I've tried to find out where it was and if her tale was true or not. I found your site, prompted by the BBC TV news this morning of amateur movie footage of German POW's just going on show at the Imperial War Museum in Manchester. Now I have a name for the camp and can do more research. Many thanks ! |
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| 15.May.2009 18:45 | | To: All |
Hello, A very well document part of history told on your website. I would like to know what happened to all those POWs ?
Where did they go after the camp closed. Any still living ? |
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| 15.May.2009 4:46 | | To: All |
| Hello again. Is it possible to obtain copies of some of the photos on your website? My grandfather was Hans Voss, who's in several of them. He's usually smiling, and appears to be in British uniform, certainly not German dress uniform. |
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| 15.May.2009 4:34 | | To: All |
| Hello. This is an awesome website and a great service to all of us who are trying to find out more about family members who were at Island Farm. |
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| 11.Mar.2009 20:33 | | To: All |
| Hello, i own a hand made chess set, left to me by my grandfather, who told me as a child that it was made by and given to him by an inmate at Island farm. |
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| 11.Feb.2009 0:09 | | To: Brett |
Hello..This is a fantastic piece of research, my respects. I grew up in Gwent before relocating to Guernsey Channel Islands 42yrs ago. I intend to digest this website slowly as not to overlook any items of interest. BTW. my sister, Susan, worked at ROF Glascoed for many years.
My thanks for providing so much information to people,like myself,with an interest in this period in history....L.J.Meredith.
festungguernsey.supernet.com |
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| 7.Feb.2009 21:10 | | To: all |
Hello; I came across this story quite by accident. Am interested and will continue on;'
Thank you..... |
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| 5.Feb.2009 20:38 | | To: All |
| Hello. An extremely interesting website. Congratulations - it is like reading a good book which one just cannot put down! |
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| 21.Nov.2008 12:30 | | To: All |
Hello
How strange it was to see someone with my name, which I have always considered unusual, being responsible for the arrest of 4 of the escaped pow's. What makes it even more strange is that I am a police officer too? The research conducted to date is nothing more than staggering. I have very much enjoyed looking at all of this, particularly the family history of some of the detainees. Excellent site. |
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| 13.Nov.2008 21:26 | | To: site |
Hello. Brilliant site, Hidden History at it's best
Thank You |
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| 13.Nov.2008 18:20 | | To: All |
Hello - I was brought up in Bridgend and spent many hours playing inside the huts at the camp with my friends during the 1960's, knowing it had been a prisioner of war camp made it pretty scary! I can still pictire the inside of the huts to this day.
Michael Ford now Berkshire.UK |
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| 11.Nov.2008 1:39 | | To: All |
Hello. I wanted to show my appreciation of your site which I enjoyed so much. I gained knowledge of the site from a reference in Robert Ryan's book 'Night Crossing' and can see how much of this is taken up with ideas and knowledge from the Island Farm experiences.
Thank you again for all the information
P.R Rose |
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| 29.Oct.2008 20:58 | | To: All |
| Hello, Like many others your website was a happy accident, and like many others I passed the camp many times in my childhood on the way to Porthcawl. My father always related the story that on boarding a train at Cardiff he met a friend & fellow officer who was escorting POWs to London - when taken through to see them he was startled to see an aray of senior German officers including Von Rundstedt. I think there was a degree of envy for his friend as my father had been a senior officer at a camp in the Middle East which contained Italian POWs -who were generally glad to be there. |
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| 26.Oct.2008 23:37 | | To: All |
| Hello: I came across your site by accident while researching POW camps, in Germany for a newly widowed friend whose husband had been held for over three years. When I saw the site mentioning Bridgend Wales I had to view. My mother was born at the old Sunnyside House and my father came from the vallies above Swansee to Bridgend in 1940. I had recalled they had mentioned that there had been a POW camp located near Bridgend during the war. I found the site very informative and interesting. Keep up the great work. |
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| 19.Oct.2008 17:57 | | To: Brett |
| Hello and well done Brett, it's great that there are people like you out there who take the time to document such important historical information. I always remember passing the camp on the A48 as a child in the family car and being fascinated it was a POW camp. Keep up the good work!! |
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| 11.Oct.2008 9:17 | | To: author of the site |
Hello I've just found your site, I'm researching a camp at colsterdale near masham and Werner Furbringer was imprisoned there. He is listed on your site, I don't suposse you have a camp number and any further information on the colsterdale camp. I do have alot of pre prisoner occupation detail.
Furbringer has a book avialble isbn 1-5575o-286-2
Thanks |
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| 9.Oct.2008 21:38 | | To: Brett |
Hello
Loved your site. Did it in one go - took me 2 hours!
An absolute tour-de-force: accuracy fairness, and a genuine attempt to seek further information. How many years is it now?
Gruess Gott!
Jules |
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| 21.Sep.2008 13:07 | | To: all |
| Hello,Awesome site,i am from the area so know Island Farm quite well,my Grandfather on my mothers side was an actual guard at island farm,looking after the POW's his name was Joseph Shaw and he originally came from Liverpool until he met my Grandmother. |
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| 12.Sep.2008 12:47 | | To: All |
Hello, i grew up in Bridgend. i am now a film student doing a placement with Carbon Media a small production company in London. They are very interested in the story of island farm and would like some help getting hold of peopple with information. So if there is any relatives, survivors or people who have put research into the site i would be very grateful to hear from you. Please email me at eleanor.sterk@carbonhq.com
thanks, this site has already been very helpful. |
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| 8.Sep.2008 0:18 | | To: All |
| Hello I read Robert Ryan's "Night Crossing" and discovered the references to Bridgend Wales where many of my ancestors lived after having left Cutcombe Somerset. It added more insight to a part of Wales unknown to me in Australia. A great read and a great true life story. |
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| 2.Sep.2008 15:07 | | To: All |
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| 31.Aug.2008 17:22 | | To: All |
| Hello. Stumbled across this after buying Len Deighton's book "Fighter" at a boot-sale today. Fascinating. Will be back for more. Thanks. |
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