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Link to info about looking for German POWs in the UK, as Maddie suggests:

https://tinyurl.com/tvox4as

Thanks a lot! It could make sense that he was send to work on a farm in Gloucestershire and that's the link to wooton! Funnily enough I was talking to a friend of mine on VE day who was evacuated from Newcastle to a country farm in Northumbria where German prisoners of war were sent.

There was a prisoner of war camp nearby... Woodfield Farm Camp, Churchdown Gloucestershire

Other WW2 POW camps in Gloucestershire:

Sudley Castle Camp, Winchcombe

Wynolls Hill, Broadwell, Coleford

Wapley Camp, Yate, Bristol

Ashtongate Camp / Bedminster Camp, Ashton gate, Bristol

Northwick Park Hospital, Blockley

Springhill Lodge Camp, Five Mile Drive, Blockley

Bourton Camp, Bourton-on-the-Hill

Leckhampton Court Camp, Leckhampton, Cheltenham

Northway Camp, Ashchurch



But of course we don't know if he was a soldier, let alone a POW, and even if he was, he could have been held anywhere in the UK.

probably unrelated

in the Germany and Surrounding Areas, Address Books, 1815-1974

Name: Gerda Keil
Gender: weiblich (Female)
Residence Date: 1942
Address: Birkenallco 3a
Residence Place: Danzig (Gdansk), Polen (Poland)
Occupation: lochn Assistn
Title: Danziger Einwohnerbuch mit allen eingemeindeten Vororten und Zoppo

Name: Gerda Keil
Gender: weiblich (Female)
Residence Date: 1940-1941
Address: Birkenallee 3a
Residence Place: Danzig (Gdansk), Polen (Poland)
Occupation: lochn Assistn
Title: Danziger Einwohnerbuch mit allen Vororten und Zoppot

Wow... That's a lot of camps! And that's amazing you can get the Danzig phone book!!!! Now what I need to do is find out who his father was! If his father was about five in 1900 and has some connection to the Lodz then there is reasonable chance it was him.