Our reference to the demolition of the buildings at Pingley Camp, on the outskirts of Brigg, to make way for industry/housing, has prompted a request for information about prisoners of war during the 1940s. Maybe some Brigg Blog followers will have information of use to our contact.
Andrea Qudah says: "I am particularly interested in Italian prisoners of war located at Low Santon, Lincolnshire. I have read your blog with much interest and am contacting you in the hope that you may be able to help with my research into my family history.
"Whilst there is little mention of a camp at Low Santon, I understand that it was a satellite camp, housing some 20 to 30 Italian POWs. My research so far has indicated that the administrative camp responsible for these prisoners would have been either Pingley Farm Camp, Bigby, Brigg (Camp 81) or Castlethorpe Hall Farm, near Brigg.
"I note your reference to a German POW located at the Low Santon camp and wondered if you have any details as to which farms these prisoners may have worked on in addition to that at Low Santon. I am also keen to locate any records of the prisoners and any other information (photographs etc) which may have survived."
We are helping Andrea with some information from the Telegraph archive, buit if you can help please email andreaqudah@hotmail.co.uk
There is the national archive register website :-
ReplyDeletewww.nationalarchives.gov.uk
or
www.online-archaeology.co.uk
The second one has records of british prisoner of war camps but not sure if they can trace specific prisoners.
This information must by law be made available . Hope this is of some assistance.