Hatfield Heath's Prisoner of War Camp is Asset
A building in PoW Camp 116. Picture: Will Durrant - Credit: Archant An engineer has described a World War II-era Prisoner of War camp in Hatfield Heath as a "huge part" of his heritage. Owen Clarkes grandfather Werner Presch was moved to the camp, which became an Uttlesford "heritage asset" last Thursday (April 22), in 1946 before starting a family in England. Werner, then a boy from Teiche, near Halle, was conscripted into the German military aged 17, in August 1944, but was captured four mo...
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