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'Skipton's POW Camp and its German Prisoners' by Anne Buckley

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This month's meeting is moved to Tuesday 7 May as the Monday is a Bank Holiday.   Please note the change of venue! The meeting is being held at the Lansil Club, Caton Road, LA1 3PE.  I know that some of the members have attended LMHG talks there recently so are already familiar with this venue. This month's speaker is Anne Buckley and it is her...

'From Tsingtao to Skipton by Anne Buckley'

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This month's speaker is Anne Buckley and it is her second visit to our branch. Anne will recount the little-known escape story of two German POWs from Fukuoka in 1915 in which they spent a year on the run and almost circumnavigated the globe. The men were two of the 4,700 Germans taken prisoner by the Japanese following the Siege of Tsingtao in...