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Walter Kleinenberg and Herbert Weide or was it Max Marzinke ?Escaped but were captured after a week

Escaped Prisoners Found in Machine at an Aerodrome After a week’s freedom, two German prisoners who escaped from Catterick camp, Yorkshire, were captured actually seated in an airplane, whether with the intention of getting clear of the district by this means or not is a matter of conjecture. Their names are Walther Kleiscaburg and Max Marzinke Despite the fact that the surrounding country was thoroughly scoured by the police and military, nothing was seen of the men until Sunday afternoon last, when an air mechanic spotted them seated in an aero plane in the aerodrome grounds. . The prisoners stated that they were both tired of hanging about and feeding on potatoes and turnips. One of the men stated that they had spent the whole of the week in a cornfield not far from the camp.

Johannes von Greuber was more succesfull he was missing for 7 weeks

The camp was divided into camps A and B (civilians) and camps C and D (soldiers). Each camp consisted of 40 residential huts, 6 by 36 meters, with an average of 33 inmates. Bath houses with hot water supply were available.

Cabins 1-20 in Camp A were occupied by Germans from London, Middleborough, Glasgow Edinburgh and civilians taken from ships. The Chief Captain was A. Winter from Cabin 7. Cabins 21 to 40 were occupied by people from Manchester and Liverpool, and the Chief Captain was Dr. chem. Marlo from hut 40.every hut had a room elder. A Board of Justice, composed of inmates, settled minor disputes among the prisoners. Only German cooks and bakers worked in the departmental kitchens and the bakery. A field hospital was located at the southern end of the camp. Under the direction of a British military doctor, two interned German doctors and several German nurses also worked there. A small cemetery was established outside the camp, where 36 soldiers and six civilians were buried over time. One of them was Wilhelm Klein, a 37-year-old hairdresser who had been brought to Stobs from southern England. In June 1916 the doctor Walter Gellhorn died in an examination room of the hospital from a morphine overdose. Tragic death of Obermatrose Carl Klein who was found dead in hospital there on Sunday, having hanged himself with his leather belt, which he had attached to one of the windows. Klein, who is said to be one of those who were on board the Blücher, which was sunk in the North Sea, had been in a depressed state for some time. He was 26 years of age, and married to Marta Klein, St, Margareten I/Holstein, Kreis Steinburg. His serial number is 28032. German Navy S.M.S. Bluecher

Paul Scheumann was a German army Lieutenant, held captive at Yatesbury airfield in Cherhill, Wiltshire, with over 700 other German servicemen. He was in charge of a working party of German prisoners of war (prisoners were used for manual labour near to their camps during the war) and, one day in October 1917, he crawled under the camp wire to retrieve a suit he had made out of army blankets and hidden near to the camp. He then went and bought a mackintosh Chippenham and got the train to London. Lieutenant Scheumann arrived in London late on Tuesday 16 October. He went out and bought a kitbag, some boots and new clothes then went to the theatre, before checking into a hotel in the West End. He checked out the next day after lunch and moved to Bellomo’s private hotel at 102 Jermyn Street, Piccadilly.

Andrea Bellomo, the owner and proprietor, was an Italian citizen in his 40s who ran the hotel with his English wife, Nellie. When Scheumann checked in at 4pm, Bellomo was immediately suspicious: “I at once noticed”, he told reporters later, “that although he described himself as a British subject, his accent was distinctly that of an educated German” What’s more, when the new arrival gave his name and address he wrote it out as “Thomas Mann, Bristol, High Street 145”: Bellomo told reporters that “The ‘145’ being placed at the end of the name of the street aroused my suspicions, as all Germans write the number thus.” He also felt that the handwriting looked German (especially the ‘1’ in ‘145’). He allowed ‘Mr Mann’ to check in but kept an eye on him. That evening ‘Mann’ again went to the theatre, apparently to see ‘Trelawny of the Wells’ at the New Theatre.

At breakfast the next day, Scheumann/Mann “appeared somewhat anxious” and Bellomo consulted a British staff officer staying at the hotel who “had also noticed the man’s clothes were apparently ready-made, and he had a distinct German accent, and that he had the appearance of an officer.” Bellomo called the police and when a Sergeant Cole arrived and had been told of the suspicions, one of the waiters “ran up, saying ‘That man is a Bosche’.” Cole and Bellomo spoke to Scheumann/Mann, who claimed to be Swiss. The English PC and the Italian hotelier did not believe this for a minute and the man was arrested “quite cheerfully” after being challenged. According to Bellomo, “I gave him some sandwiches, and said, ‘You’re lucky to be treated in this way. I hope you’ll tell your friends how well we treat German prisoners here. Scheumann laughed, and went off with Sergeant Cole.”

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bures.me.uk

widderhausen.de

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Captured germans by Norman Nicol