Island Farm
Island
Farm - 1938 - How Island Farm originated.
American 28th
Infantry Division - October 1943 - American 108th Field Artillery
Battalion / 28th Infantry Division
Corporal
William Odell Stricklin
Camp
198 - 2nd November 1944
- Island Farm becomes a German PoW Camp
A
Death At Island Farm
Anti
Escape Plans
The
Escape Tunnel
How
The Escape Was Nearly Foiled
Diversion
and Annoyance Tactics
The Big
Escape
The
Big Escape
Listen
to The Actual BBC News Recording Reporting Escape - Read By Alvar
Lidell
The
Escaped German Prisoners - Detailed list of the PoWs who made the
escape
The Search for Escaped PoWs
Recaptured
- Detailed information about how the PoWs were recaptured
Newspaper
Cuttings Reporting Escape
Newspaper
Cuttings (with Photo) Reporting the Recapture of POWs
Murder
Mystery In Porthcawl, Nr Bridgend.
After
The Escape - Includes A 1977 Recording of Escapee Lt Carl Brockmeyer)
Police
Commendation - 26th March 1945
Special
Camp XI
About
Special Camp XI
Some Of
The Prisoners Held
Generalfeldmarschall
Gerd von Rundstedt
Leutnant
Hans Gerd von Rundstedt
Generalfeldmarschall
Ewald von Kleist
Generalfeldmarschall
Erich von Manstein
Generalfeldmarschall
Walter von Brauchitsch
Generalmajor
Walter Robert Dornberger
SS-Gruppenführer
und Generalleutnant der Polizei Hermann Behrends
SS-Obergruppenführer
und General der Waffen-SS und Polizei Werner Lorenz
Konteradmiral
(Ing.) Hans Voss
General der Panzertruppe Hasso Von Manteuffel
Generaloberst
Gotthard Heinrici
General
der Panzertruppe Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin
General
der Infanterie Günther Blumentritt
General
der Panzertruppe Heinrich Karl Alfons Willy Eberbach
Generalleutnant
Johann von Ravenstein
Generalleutnant
Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben
Vizeadmiral
Friedrich Hüffmeier
SS-Obergruppenführer
und General der Waffen-SS Karl-Maria Demelhuber
Additional
POW Profiles
Life On
The Otherside of the Wire
Douglas
Richards - The guard who arrested Feld Marschall
Gerd von Rundstedt
Sergeant
William Ronald Williams of 3 Platoon
- a guard at Special Camp 11. Also see photo at the bottom of this page
Bombardier
L,R,Angell
- 15th April 1946 - Discharge papers signed by Commandant Major D.B. Topham
Captain
Edward (Ted) Lees - Camp Intelligence Officer and Interpreter
The Unidentified
Unidentified
Prisoners & Possible Identifications
Unidentified
POW Signatures
Miscellaneous
International
Military Tribunal at Nürnberg (Nuremberg)
- Includes photos of Lord Oaksey visits Bridgend
Life
In Special Camp XI
POWs
Learn English
Works Of Art by German POWs
A
Birthday At Island Farm - A Birthday Card To Pfarrer Gruber
German PoW Orderlies to the High
ranking German Officers
Alexander
Fritzche
Helmut
Guettler - German PoW marries a Welsh girl from Bridgend
Gunter
Koball - Camp interpreter and chief clerk at the accounts office
Aufwiedersehen
- Repatriation
An
Official Repatriation List, Photos of the Repatriation and Newspaper Coverage
Closure
Of Special Camp 11
Closure
of Island Farm Special Camp 11 (2nd Week May 1948)
Modern
Day News / Photos
Forty
Three Years Later...(1988)
Photos
Of Island Farm Prior To The Camp Demolition in 1993 (Photos
taken 1989 Approximately)
POW
Drawings from the Hut Walls
Fifty
Five Years later - Remembering the escape (2000)
Modern
Day - A Waste Of Money ?
(Councillor Jeff Jones thought preserving Hut 9 was a waste
of money.)
Fifty
Six Years Later (2001) - What's To Become Of the Island Farm Land ?
Colour
Photos Of Hut 9 (Inside and Outside) & Island Farm As It Is Today
(All That Remains Of Island Farm)
In
2003, The Escape Tunnel Is Re-opened And Found To Be In Almost Perfect
Condition
The Royal Ordnance Factories
Photos
Of "The Arsenal" & "The Admiralty"As It Was & Is Today
- Largest Employee Factories To Date In
Britain!
Aerial
Photography Of Bridgend Taken by The Luftwaffe & RAF
Air-Raids
On South Wales
Unexploded
Bomb (UXB) Classification
Rare
List Detailing Luftwaffe Air Raid Dates On South Wales and The Areas Around
Bridgend
Other
POW Camps In Great Britain
Map Showing Location
Of Pow Camps and List Of Camps
People's
Recollections of PoW Camps
Other
Escape Attempts From Camps in Great Britain
Tips
On How To Find Information
Looking
for information on other POW Camps in Great Britain ?
Website
& Hut 9 Under Attack!
Outspoken
attacks on this website and Hut 9 in 2003
Wales
This Week - Wales This Week televises a confrontation between myself and
Jeff Jones
Hut
9 Attacked By Vandals 28th/29th January 2004
60th
Anniversary of D-Day
Photos from
my trip to Normandy Beaches - June 2004
TV
Programmes
Come
Out (Whereever you are) - 1976 BBC documentary on the escape - also shows
some of the former escapees
The
oldest known cine film of the camp - Taken by Sgt Ron Williams ( below)
29th January 2013 - Island
Farm appeared on CountryFile - with myself and John Craven
The Welsh
Great Escape - A 2004 docu drama/ detailing the escape (featuring escapees
Steffi Ehlert and Gerhard Fiegel)
IMPORTANT:
Please be advised that there are lots of significant mistakes in the
above programme, The Welsh Great Escape, below are just a few examples:
1) Island Farm is quoted as being a "black camp" (Staunch
Nazi) - Island Farm was a "white camp"
2) PoW Otto Iskat was severely beaten by fellow PoWs for failing
to send Adolf Hitler a birthday card, see: Otto
Iskat died of high blood pressure and a heart attack as per his death
certificate
3) The tunnel was 60 feet in length - the tunnel was nearer
30 feet in length
4) The PoWs who escaped were "German officers"
- the PoWs who took part in the escape were low ranked German PoWs. Island
Farm wasn't an officer camp until 1946
5) The escape number is misquoted twice (67 and 72) - the
actual escape figure was 70 PoWs
6) Lily Griffiths was shot 3 days after the escape - The
escape was 10/11th March and the shooting was the 12th March.
7) Lily died within hours of being shot - Lily was shot
on the 12th and died on the 16th March
8) A supposed BBC News (Voice Over) - Gets date wrong (16th
March 1945) for final escapees recaptured - The actual date was, see:
17th
March 1945
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