Alfred Minchin

Minchin (second right) with SS-Mann Kenneth Berry (second left) and German officers, April 1944

Alfred Vivian Minchin was a British merchant seaman who was taken prisoner by a German destroyer after his ship, the SS Empire Ranger, one of a Murmansk convoy, was sunk by German bombers off Norway,[1] and later a Sturmmann[2] in the Waffen-SS British Free Corps during the Second World War. He was taken prisoner on March 28, 1942.[3] It was he who suggested the name for the British Free Corps.[4] By 8 March 1945 he 'was being treated for scabies in the SS hospital at Lichtefelde-West.'[5] The National Archives holds the depositions for his trial at the Central Criminal Court under reference CRIM 1/485 and a Home Office file on him under reference HO 45/25817. He was 'convicted at Central Criminal Court on 5 February 1946 of conspiring to assist the enemy and sentenced to 7 years penal servitude' for offences against the Defence Regulations.[6][7] He died in 2001 at the age of 81.[8]

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References

  1. ↑ Weale, Adrian (2014-11-12). Renegades (Kindle Locations 1968-1969). Random House. Kindle Edition
  2. ↑ Weale, Adrian (2014-11-12). Renegades (Kindle Location 2342). Random House. Kindle Edition
  3. ↑ http://bills-bunker.de/56856.html
  4. ↑ Weale, Adrian (2014-11-12). Renegades (Kindle Location 2216). Random House. Kindle Edition
  5. ↑ Weale, Adrian (2014-11-12). Renegades (Kindle Locations 3000-3001). Random House. Kindle Edition
  6. ↑ The National Archives - Reference: HO 45/24477
  7. ↑ "Seamen Sentenced For Aiding Enemy." Times, London, England, 21 Feb. 1946: 2. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 20 Mar. 2015.
  8. ↑ Guy Walters' site - history of the BFC, complete with pictures

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