Pow camp in sherburn-in-elmet??

please can anyone give me any info on how to find out about the Pow camp?

I can't seem to find any records yet knew someone who was in there.

Many thanks

 

According to a Guardian article, which claims to be the definitive listing of POW camps (link at bottom),
the following Yorkshire locations were used. Nearest I can see to Sherburn is Selby. I can find nothing about the Sherburn in Elmet airfield being used for POWS at the end of the war, as were some other surplus airfields used. I have also included a link to an interesting article on war time airfields.

Gilling Camp, Hartforth Grange, Hartforth Lane, Gilling Yorkshire
Racecourse Camp, Doncaster Yorkshire
Racecourse Camp, Knavesmire, York Yorkshire
Lodge Moor Camp, Redmires Road, Sheffield Yorkshire
Bramham No.1 Camp, Bramham, Boston Spa Yorkshire
Sandbeds Camp, Gateforth New Road, Brayton Yorkshire
Overdale Camp, Skipton Yorkshire
Storwood Camp, Storwood, Cottingwith Yorkshire
Eden Camp, Old Malton, Malton Yorkshire
Post Hill camp, Farnley, Leeds Yorkshire
Thirkleby Camp, Sandhill, Little Thirkleby Yorkshire
Scriven Hall camp, Scriven Knaresborough Yorkshire
Racecourse Camp, Ripon Yorkshire
Potter's Hill, High Green, Sheffield Yorkshire
High Hall Camp, Bishop Burton, Beverley Yorkshire
Welton House, Welton, Brough Yorkshire
Butterwick Camp, Boythorpe Yorkshire
Military Hospital, Naburn, York Yorkshire
Butterwick Camp, Boythorpe Yorkshire
Weston Lane Camp, Otley Yorkshire
Dog and Duck Cottage, Norton-in-Malton Yorkshire
Urebank Camp (Ure Bank), Ripon Yorkshire
Butcher Hill, Horsforth, Leeds Yorkshire
Weston Lane Camp, Otley Yorkshire
Norton Camp, Cinderhill Lane, Norton, Sheffield Yorkshire
Thorpe Hall, Rudston Yorkshire
Ravensfield Park Camp, Rotherham Yorkshire
Stable Road Camp, Barlow Yorkshire
Searchlight Site Camp, Husthwaite, Easingwold Yorkshire
Stadium Camp, Catterick Yorkshire
Cowick Hall, West Cowick, Snaith Yorkshire
Centenary Road, Goole Yorkshire
Thomas Street Camp, Selby Yorkshire
No.14 Armoured Fighting Vehicle Depot (A.F.V.D.), Burn, Selby Yorkshire
Station Road, Tadcaster Yorkshire

Every prisoner of war camp in the UK mapped and listed
https://content.historicengland.org...concrete/nine-thousand-miles-of-concrete.pdf/

 

This may be of interest:

A P.O.W.'s Life in Scholes

Dave

 

. i know someone who has told me he was a Pow there. It was on common lane and later became a chicken farm.. I have an old photo of a group of pows stood there.. I think. .

 

for info

http://www.islandfarm.wales/LIST OF UK POW CAMPS1.htm

 

It's not on there. This is why I have asked on here. I am looking for info which I can't google, believe me I have tried for hours. I have docs etc and it is of interest to me. The Pow definitely existed and I have paperwork from the era but not a single trace via any google searches whatsoever.

 

Here you go. I got to looking at Sandbeds camp near Brayton, Selby which is only about 8 miles from Sherburn (and mentioned in the article) and came up with this story about Scholes and Barwick in Elmet
A P.O.W.'s Life in Scholes

Apologies to Dave in post #3 above, sorry I've duplicated your info

Lesley

 

Cheers.

 

Have also posted this on the other thread and am posting here in case others are searching and could use the info here to help.

OK
Before Dec 1944 is could not have been a POW camp:
Reference: AIR 29/518
Description:
Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment, Sherburn-in-Elmet (AFEE UK); appendices with diagrams and photographs of equipment.
Note: appendices only
Date: 1944 May-Dec.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: IIM/FN3/1A
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

There are other similar files but this is the latest.

We also know it became an EVW Camp (European Voluntary Workers) never heard of this term before but we are all learning.


We also know about POW Camp no 183

183 Quorn Camp, Wood Lane, Quorn, (Quorndon) Leicestershire Eng STANDARD type. See Camp no.9

From - Every prisoner of war camp in the UK mapped and listed

Although having said another database gives a different location for camp 183:
183
Beckton Marshes camp, East Ham, London E6, London, England
London
England
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Google Fusion Tables

However this document (POW camps in the UK) shows the problem especially if you try the 'Find' option and type in 183. Using that same system if you put in Sherburn, then there are zero results. My guess here would be that he was in one of the Camps 183, and after the war was moved to the EVW Hostel at Sherburn, This would have been the old RAF and Airborne training base no longer required and with empty buildings etc would have been a good place to have a Hostel.

TD

edited to add:
If we had his name then there is a chance that there is a family tree on Ancestry that may have information to help answer your questions

 

In fact it was still a training site for Airborne until end 1945:
Reference: AIR 29/519
Description:
Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment, Sherburn-in-Elmet (AFEE UK); appendices with diagrams and photographs of equipment.
Note: appendices only
Date: 1945 Feb.-Dec.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: IIM/FN3/1A
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

Is this your POW
Name: Donald H Matthes

TD

 

OK more to come

It seems to me that Sherburn was still being used by MOD up tp 1950:


Ministry of Aircraft Production and Ministry of Supply: Airborne Forces Establishment, later Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment: Reports | The National Archives
Reference: AVIA 21
Title: Ministry of Aircraft Production and Ministry of Supply: Airborne Forces Establishment, later Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment: Reports
Description:
Reports on research on and development of the means of transport and delivery of airborne forces and their equipment.
Date: 1941-1950


........................................ in 1950 the Establishment was moved to Boscombe Down where it merged with the present-day Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment.

I may be wrong on that others will probably correct me.

TD

 

Posted on other thread just now, posting here to save other members from chasing/missing

Naturalisation Certificate: Horst Karl Erich Ottomar Julius Ewald. From Germany.... | The National Archives


Reference: HO 334/412/48548
Description:
Naturalisation Certificate: Horst Karl Erich Ottomar Julius Ewald. From Germany. Resident in Sherburn-in-Elmet, near Leeds, Yorkshire. Certificate BNA48548 issued 6 November 1957.
Date: 1957 Nov 6
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

This marriage is 1951 - I believe you mentioned it was 1957 previously
England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005
Name: Horst E O J Ewald
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1951
Registration district: Barkton Ash
Inferred County: Yorkshire West Riding
Spouse: Elizabeth M Johnson
Volume Number: 2d
Page Number: 897

They had 2 children from the marriage both born in the 1960's

West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1962
Name: Horst Ewald
Year: 1960
Country: England
County: West Yorkshire
Parliamentary Division: Barkston Ash
Place of Abode: 29
Reference Number: Barkston Ash

Name: Horst Ewald
Year: 1961
Country: England
County: West Yorkshire
Parliamentary Division: Barkston Ash
Place of Abode: 29
Reference Number: Barkston Ash

TD

 

POWs were often moved from camp to camp.

There were 2 camps 183 - but NOT at the same time, (numbers were re-used after one closed). Details for the 2 183's are given above. You would need to know the date he was at 183 to be sure which one it was. Quorn Camp had its number changed to 9, this often happened if there was a change of status to the camp, e.g. changing the size of a camp, changed the number of troops there, and gave it a new War Establishment number). As Camp 9 it closed in early 1947.

There is only 1 camp 53 on record - from the ICRC list it was – Labour Camp. 53. Sandbeds Camp, Gateforth New Road, Brayton, Yorkshire. This was a German Working Camp. It also closed in 1947.

The Military Hospital for pows at Naburn was camp 162. The site is now occupied by a retail outlet.

Not sure if the picture at the top is yours as underneath it says 'no that is not him'. However, the address shown in the picture above is for EVW Hostel - this was a "European Volunteer Worker" hostel and not a pow camp. There were 75,000 EVWs in the UK in 1948. I see that Ancestry has links to some lists for EVWs.

Individual details of pows held by the British were passed on to the ICRC, but they are inundated with requests. The last time I looked they were not processing any more for the time being.

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