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Displaced Persons and Refugees
« on: Tuesday 06 May 08 05:36 BST (UK) »
Almost six million people were displaced between 1914 and 1919, including the prisoners of war liberated in Central Europe and Germany. http://tinyurl.com/4e5fwa The picture in this next link shows the luggage of Belgian refugees at Alexandra Palace during WW1 http://politics.guardian.co.uk/pictures/image/0,9353,-11505153757,00.html Some of the Belgians settled in Wolverhampton for the duration of the War and most returned home when the War ended http://tinyurl.com/4hwad4

I wonder if Maarten Sobrie received a reply to her message, regarding her great great grandfather and his family who stayed on a farm at Boroughbridge during WWI. www.boroughbridgeonline.co.uk/news/item.asp?id=54