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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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| 25.Aug.2008 21:56 | | To: All |
| Hello, I loved this website - the list of bombs dropped was rivetting reading. My aunt was killed as a baby when a bomb dropped on their house in Mayhill Swansea. I cannot imagine how the people of our area must have felt. It must have been terrifying! Well done on yr site! |
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| 22.Aug.2008 17:22 | | To: All |
| Hello, excellent site, this must have taken a lot of long painstaking research. Well done. |
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| 5.Aug.2008 11:03 | | To: Anyone that knows me |
| Hello I really enjoyed discovering this site which brought back many memories. |
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| 15.Jul.2008 22:30 | | To: islandfarm.jimnet-backbone.co.uk |
| Hello. I was so pleased to find your site and am most impressed with the amount of research you have done. My father was a prisoner of war, arriving in Britain in Oct. 44 after being captured by the Americans in France. He was in camps in Newbury racecourse, Moreton in the Marsh and finally in Hare Hatch near Twyford in Berkshire. From here he was set to work on farms which is how he came to meet my mother. He told us quite a few tales of his time in camp so if you are interested I could give you a bit more infromation. |
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| 29.Jun.2008 23:13 | | To: All |
Hello!
Great website.
I'm 50 years old, and I remember my best friend's Dad talking about his time , during the war, as a very young Captain, guarding German POWs.
And as a seventeen year old, I used to serve a customer, who was an ex POW, who decided to stay in Britain after the war. He used to talk about his time as a prisoner.
You must have spent eons on this site. |
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| 17.Jun.2008 12:06 | | To: All |
Hello
Superb site
Is there a reference to General Kurt Student
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| Message from Brett - Paul, Please see the main POW section of this web site |
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| 15.Jun.2008 18:39 | | To: all |
Hello,
What a brilliant website and full of info.
Thanks.
Ferenc Sumegi ( 54 )from Budapest |
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| 14.Jun.2008 14:10 | | To: Brett |
Hello Brett sad news Pingley Farm Camp number 81 has now been sold for Housing.It will be a great loss of a Standard camp.
My web site on pow Camps is now under construction
Regards Andrew. |
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| 13.Jun.2008 9:14 | | To: All |
Hello.
I loved your website. The information was excellent. My book group is reading The Welsh girl and it is all about POW's in a Wales camp. Thank you so much for maintaining the web site with accurate information. I didn't realise we had so many camps in Britian. |
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| 12.Jun.2008 11:39 | | To: All |
Hello
What a great site found by accident. I was in Stafford (1938) near to Cannock Chase and Rugeley and Penkridge where there were a few camps. I remember the POWs being around and wearing the plum coloured BD with the yellow patches. some working with the Land army girls |
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| 24.Apr.2008 19:14 | | To: All |
Hello-Excellent material on a long-forgotten subject.
I co-authored a book entitled "Once Enemies, Now friends" and am interested in WWII history. |
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| 17.Apr.2008 18:38 | | To: Hellow |
| Hellow THIS IS AN INTRESTING SITE.I CAME TO YOUR SITE AND IT IS WONDERFULL KEEP THE GOOD WORK |
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| 29.Mar.2008 16:11 | | To: All |
Hello
what a great site awesome |
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| 7.Mar.2008 12:19 | | To: All |
Hello
I notice from your site that there is no mention of the TV doco on the "Escape". I have a copy of "The Welsh Great Escape" if you would like it let me know
Roland, Australia |
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| 17.Feb.2008 0:51 | | To: authors |
Hello from Canada:
I came across your website after googling for some info on the SS at Bolazano.
You are to be congratulated on a very comprehensive site. I particularly like that you take some pains to relate what is happening on the location today, and to advocate for historical preservation. Well done. |
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| 5.Feb.2008 19:53 | | To: All |
Hello
Like many others i stumbled on this site by accident. As a child I lived at the old Marbury Hall (Cheshire) POW camp. My family went to live there about 1951 .The camp huts had been converted into chalet type/prefabricated buildings. The site was owned by ICI and used the place to house workers who moved there from Liverpool/Manchester. The Hall was still in use housing single men and was still an imposing building as I recall. There were still a large number of Poles living there , many working in the hall as chefs etc.The gardens were maintained by a group of gardeners one of whom had I believe been a guard there during the war, he was Bill Gardener who originated from Tonypandy ,south wales.He was a friend of my parents and one of his fellow gardeners was a man called Charlie, dont remember his surname. Sadly Nothing now remains of the old place, the hall was demolished some years ago as were all the old huts. The area is now a country park but one small section of the old hall grounds remains and is now a Garden Centre. As I recall during my childhood at Marbury it was a great place for kids to grow up, surrounded by woods and fields and the magnificent lake for fishing.
Jeff |
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