German POW repatriation 1948

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  1. alanatabz

    alanatabz Well-Known Member

    Morning all

    trying to find out the name of a ship that departed Harwich bound for Hamburg At 1.30pm on Saturday the 3rd April 1948

    This was carrying German POWs back to Germany

    Anybody any idea how I can find out the name?

    Or based on a POW number, could the movement from arrival in the UK in 1944 through to 1948 be traced by date when moving camps?
     
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  2. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

  3. alanatabz

    alanatabz Well-Known Member

    Thanks Tricky. It may be the Hook of Holland rather than Hamburg. I did see that link earlier and updated my notes.
     
  4. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    Unfortunately the date is too late for Arnold Hagues database - that ends in 1946

    TD

    Also the database on Ancestry for Immigration & Emigration, basically only deals with passenger ships where you may be looking for Ferries, this is all a guess on my part but inputting Harwich into the departure port provides zero results for any years


    Having said that however and as usual I have found Harwich mentioned as the arrival port in this fascinating and useful database
    England, Alien Arrivals, 1810-1811, 1826-1869
    Name: Courtin
    Port of Arrival: Harwich, England
    Arrival Date: 12 May 1855
    Port of Departure: Antwerp, Belgium
    Ship: Cygnus
    Country of Origin/Native of: France

    Wonder how they managed between 1812 and 1825 ??Waterloo was 1815
     
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  5. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member



    TD

    Illicit Encounters: Female Civilian Fraternization with ... - JSTORhttps://www.jstor.org › stable
    by B Moore · 2013 · Cited by 9 — Abstract. The arrival of enemy prisoners of war in Britain from 1941 onwards and their use as a ... German prisoners of war both during and after the war through the enforcement of ... had been repatriated, and there was strong opposition to Italians marrying their ... The last transport left Harwich on 12 July 1948 with 546 pris.


    Another site that may help out - powsite
    Under "Operation Repat", the ex-servicemen would be shipped back to the continent from Harwich in Essex after being held in a nearby detention centre.


    The War Years | Harwich & Dovercourt | History, Facts & Photos of Harwich
    Last German P.O.W. Goes Home via Harwich
    A Ship pulling away from the quayside, German prisoners of war lining its decks and waving farewell, the strains of “Lili Marlene” from an accordion on deck floating across the ever-widening space of water. This was the final scene of an historic moment at Parkeston Quay when the last batch of German prisoners were repatriated.
    It was scene that followed a strangely dramatic farewell on the quayside, a farewell that was without special ceremony, but had within it the essence of changing times, of a kindly tolerance towards the men who were going home. Almost a bonhomie, born perhaps of the sentiment of the moment.
    The party of 550 who sailed from Harwich brought to a total of 220,000 the German prisoners who have been repatriated through Harwich of the past eleven months.


    Prisoners of war in British hands - The National Archives
     
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  6. Mathsmal

    Mathsmal Senior Member

    Can you share the POW number?
    If it is a US one, the POW may have been moved from the US to UK, and there are some (very) limited POW lists on Ancestry as passengers on US ships.

    Repatriated POWs were sent from Harwich to Hook of Holland but I've not seen any lists of the names of the transport ships.
     
  7. alanatabz

    alanatabz Well-Known Member

    Hi Mathsmal

    22063 A22063 / B22063
     
  8. Mathsmal

    Mathsmal Senior Member

    Thanks - that is British then. It is worth doing a search on Ancestry as you never know though.
     
  9. alanatabz

    alanatabz Well-Known Member

    It's a German POW?
     

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