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| 27.Sep.2009 21:44 | | To: Mark Shanks |
Hello,
I think my Grandad was a POW at Castle Rankine. I am trying to find out more information about the site. Please can you help? Many Thanks. |
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| 14.Sep.2009 22:44 | | To: All |
Hello,
superb site, found as a reference when reading Robert Ryan's Night Crossing. Born in 1950 near Bedwas received many stories of events during the war but great to read the truth. I shall digest the contents in more detail. Many thanks for your work. |
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| 17.Aug.2009 19:45 | | To: All |
| Hello I came upon this well documented historical piece about a time that was rarely spoken of. I was born in Bridgend and raised in North Cornelly. Both parents were involved in WW11 mother in ATS Teleprinter and father RAF Bomber. I lived the first 2 years in the quonsets in Boverton before moving to Cornelly. The log of bombs dropped in the area is astounding. I will return and read more. Thank you for your dedication and research. |
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| 9.Aug.2009 17:01 | | To: All |
Hello
I came across your site after reading Bill Ash's book "Under the Wire". I wondered what life was like for German POWs and if there had been any escape attempts. I thought your site was brilliantly informative and I loved all of the newspaper clippings. Someone should make a film about the Big Escape. Many thanks for such a good site. |
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| 3.Aug.2009 21:32 | | To: All |
| Hello.... my father HORST MUllER was a POW held at Island Farm and would often recall the night of The Great Escape. |
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| 30.Jul.2009 20:50 | | To: All |
Hello
I found you by chance after seeing the 'Coast' feature. What a magnificent website - the very, very best of what the internet can do. The time and research you have put into it is extraordinary. It is full of detailed and fascinating information, brilliant photographs, great links - all put together in an easy-to-navigate package. But more important still, the tone you have set in telling the story, and the humanity that clearly underlies it, makes it a very moving experience as well. Thank you. Ossie (I am a friend of the daughter and grand-daughter of General Frido von Senger und Etterlin, one of the camp's senior 'guests'!) |
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| 30.Jul.2009 20:34 | | To: brett |
| Hello I was the guide on the Bulge tour. and looking at your site for the first time. Regarding criticism it is history, so ignore them. Jimmy |
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| 29.Jul.2009 18:44 | | To: Brett Exton&Shawn Bohannon |
| Hello. Excellent site this. I have a great interest in WWII and have driven past the site of Island Farm many times and although I was aware it was a POW camp and there had been a mass escape from it I must admit I didn't know much more than that. I have now had the pleasant experience of finding out through the luck of stumbling upon your website. Thank you. |
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| 28.Jul.2009 21:22 | | To: All involved |
| Hello- There was a piece about the escape on "Coast" (BBC2, 28/07/09, 8pm), and I wanted to know more about it. Thanks for keeping such a good record available. |
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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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