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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 Clarke's 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 months later in Brugge, Belgium.  He was moved to France and England before being put to work at Cam...