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Part 3 on the life of Raikeswood PoW Herbert Straehler

The final part of a trilogy on the life of Skipton POW Herbert Straehler

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Bradford historian fights to get Major s name listed with war dead | Bradford Telegraph and Argus

A LITTLE over a year ago I was sent some photographs of soldiers’ graves in Hirst Wood Cemetery, Shipley.

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How a U-boat commander ended up a Skipton PoW after North Sea capture

IT was a cold winter’s night, as he floundered about in the cold North Sea waters off the coast at Sunderland. His hands were numb with cold, and…

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Raikeswood POW Camp and the 1919 national railway strike

THE railways were on strike. The government was threatening to cut railwaymen’s wages. For nine days hardly a train moved at a time when main…

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PoWs from Japan to Skipton Part two

This is the second part of a three-part story by historian Alan Roberts into the escape from Japan of German prisoners who ended up in Skipton.

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