Edwin Barnard Martin
Edwin Barnard Martin (11 February 1919 – 16 August 1987) was a Canadian member of the British Free Corps, a component of the armed forces of Nazi Germany, during the Second World War.
Martin was born in February 1919 and hailed from Riverside, Ontario. He was a private in the Canadian Army's Essex Scottish Regiment, who had been captured during the controversial Dieppe raid in August 1942.[1] In March 1944, he voluntarily left BFC for the isolation camp, by then situated near Schwerin in Mecklenburg.'[2] The Canadian court-martial which heard his case after the war passed a sentence of 25 years imprisonment for being an informer and a member of the British Free Corps.[3] Martin died in Ontario in August 1987 at the age of 68.[4][5]
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References[]
- ^ Weale, Adrian (2014-11-12). Renegades (Kindle Locations 1998-1999). Random House. Kindle Edition
- ^ Weale, Adrian (2014-11-12). Renegades (Kindle Locations 2312-2313). Random House. Kindle Edition
- ^ Weale, Adrian (2014-11-12). Renegades (Kindle Location 3370). Random House. Kindle Edition.
- ^ FindAGrave: Edwin Barnard “Ted” Martin
- ^ Ancestry LifeStory: Edwin Barnard Martin
Bibliography[]
- West, Rebecca (1949). "Chapter III: The Children - Kenneth Edward and Stoker Rose - Section II - PP 288ff". The Meaning of Treason. London: Macmillan & Co Ltd.
External links[]
- "Forced To Join British Free Corps." Times, London, England, 1 September 1945: 2. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 18 Feb. 2015.
- "Alleged Aid To The Enemy." Times, London, England, 4 September 1945: 2. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 18 Feb. 2015.
- "Denial Of Aiding Enemy." Times, London, England, 5 September 1945: 2. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 19 Feb. 2015.
- "Court-Martial On Soldier." Times, London, England, 6 September 1945: 2. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 16 April 2015.
- "Germans put Canadian "on the spot"." Times, London, England, 7 September 1945: 2. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 18 Feb. 2015.
- "Sentences For Aiding The Enemy." Times, London, England, 29 September 1945: 2. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 19 Feb. 2015.
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