pow camp

[Makayla77]

hi can sks please help i am trying to find out which pow camp my grandfather would have been held at . he was a german pow i know it was in lincs . as he was taken to work on a farm called orchard farm hardwick where he met my grandma.

[Alan7636]

Hello Makayla

How certain are you that the POW camp you refer to was in Lincolnshire. I only ask because on this web site 

http://tinyurl.com/3afvzhx (Scroll down the listing to see British POW camps)

there does not appear to be a camp in the vicinity of Hardwick, Lincolnshire.

There was however a POW camp at Hardwick Heath nr. Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. See:

http://tinyurl.com/4gd8kzy or http://tinyurl.com/4sj6rl7

I believe the International Red Cross have records of those held as a prisoner of war, see

http://tinyurl.com/37vmrwp

Alan

[Makayla77]

hi thanks for the help its my friends who is trying to find out about her grandfather she doesnt no what rank or reg he was in just that he was a pow . i have found a pow capm in pingley but saddly it was demolished in 2010. i will just keep researchin . the said thing is she doesnt even know which part of germany he was from .


thanks agian
makayla

[An65]

Anyone any ideas about a German POW who lived at Ferry Lane Langrick Lincs and worked on a farm? I have a photo of him if anyone can claim him he was known locally as German John.

[keith110639]

There was a German POW camp at Low Fulney, Spalding. I remember they made wooden toys, picture frames etc to sell for pocket money not unlike the French POW's during the Napoleonic War near Peterborough who made model ships etc from pieces of bone. I beleive some of the POW's from this camp never whent home and eventualy married and settled in the area.

[tambala]

I remember going to the POW camp in Fulney in about 1952-53 when I was 4 or 5 years old. My father was the manager of the bakery in Moulton (now a butcher's shop) and he used to take the unsold bread in sacks and give it to the POWs. That would probably have been after it closed as a camp, and when some of the POWs stayed on.

[Redroger]

Was the North Sea Camp (later HM Borstal and HM Prison) at Freiston shore Nr. Boston ever used for this purpose?

[hanes teulu]

Was there a POW camp at Horbling - camp 80?

[ScouseBoy]

hi can sks please help i am trying to find out which pow camp my grandfather would have been held at . he was a german pow i know it was in lincs . as he was taken to work on a farm called orchard farm hardwick where he met my grandma.

   Was he an officer?     and or   was he Navy,  Army or  Air force,  those are all things  which may help the search.