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	British Free Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prior to the move, the BFC gained two members, Francis George MacLardy of the Royal Army Medical Corps, (he was captured in Belgium) and Edwin Barnard Martin of the Canadian Essex Scottish Regiment, (Martin was captured at Dieppe in 1942), which brought the strength of the BFC to seven.
		Of the group who left the BFC in December, the rumour that they would be sent to a SS run stalag, caused some of them to rethink their decision and three of them returned to their POW camps.
		In April 1944, the BFC was issued its distinctive insignia, the three lion passant collar tab, the Union Jack arm badge, and the cuff title bearing "British Free Corps" in Gothic script.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Free_Corps (6158 words)

	British I Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During WWI it was part of the original British Expeditionary Force, under the command of Sir Douglas Haig, and remained on the Western Front throughout the war.
		However, in 1951 the corps was reactivated to become the principal combat element of the BAOR, with its HQ based in Bielefeld.
		With the end of the Cold War, I (BR) Corps was redesignated in 1992 as a NATO Rapid Reaction Corps under SACEUR and renamed as Headquarters Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_I_Corps (266 words)

	www.bills-bunker.de
		One of the most important members of the BFC was without a doubt Thomas Cooper, an englishman with a German mother who had was a former London member of the British Union of Fascists and who had since 1938 served in the Waffen-SS, being wounded on the eastern front.
		British formation patches and divisional shields were worn on the arm near the shoulder, and I think it was for this reason alone that the change was demanded.
		Slowly the soldiers of the BFC were captured, some had removed their insignia, they fell into Allied hands and photos reached Winston Churchill, who is reported to have flown into a rage upon hearing the news about the existence of the British Free Corps.
	www.bills-bunker.de /64090.html?sessionidkey=sessionidval (2443 words)

	British Free Corps. Aussies & Kiwis in the SS
		In February 1944 the Corps already numbered 8 “free Britons” although it is noteworthy that the composition of BFC had been constantly changing: people had been coming and going.
		During this period of time BFC was joined by William How, former lance-corporal of Military Police, and Ernest Nichols who used to be a petrol storekeeper in the army.
		An early volunteer for the BFC was Lance Corporal Roy Courlander of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2 NZEF).
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-conflicts-periods/ww2/british_free.htm (1398 words)

	On the Box Show profile The Brits Who Fought Hitler. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		For the first time on British television, men of the British Free Corps of the Waffen SS speak of their treachery, and their part in a German propaganda coup that failed dismally when faced with stout British resistance.
		The SS put British turncoat John Brown in charge instead, but little did they know that former fascist Brown was an MI5 informer who was passing all their plans to British intelligence.
		BFC members were sent to prison for treason and aiding the enemy, and even today, the shame of their actions still affects families.
	www.memorabletv.com /onthebox/profiles/britswhofoughthitler.htm (854 words)

	MI5 report on the BFC
		British Military and Criminal History in the period 1900 to 1999.
		Early in 1944 certain of the few enlisted members of the British Free Corps were drawn from it, and assigned to other subversive activities, such as broadcasting and SS Propaganda units at the Front.
		The principal subversive activity other than the BFC, nourished by Stalags IIID/999 and /517, was to add to the staffs of the secret broadcasting stations of which Radio National (music and talks), Workers Challenge (talks to appeal especially to the working class) and Empire Senders (for Dominion and Colonial audiences) were examples.
	www.stephen-stratford.co.uk /mi5_and_bfc.htm (2709 words)

	British in the ranks of the German Wehrmacht during WWII
		Reports of mass-desertion by BFC men in contemporary accounts are unfounded, as unsuitable candidates of this ilk were sent back to their POW cages long before they were issued SS-soldbuchs and allowed the relative freedom of camp-life in a rear area, or front-line duty.
		It was felt that the BFC presented a burden to the local population who knew of the units location at the Pioneer Barracks, so it was therefore transfered from Dresden and sent north to the Stettin area to meet up with the 11.SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Nordland.
		Because of the BFC's brief association with the SS-Nordland division on the Oder front in late March 1945, it is commonly assumed that they went into Berlin and fought a last-gasp defensive battle against the Russians.
	www.mikekemble.com /ww2/britnazi.html (2060 words)

	British Free Corps
		The British Free Corps, originally called the British Legion of St George, was created by the Nazis in 1943.
		The British Free Corps had no military value in World War Two but its founder, John Amery, was hanged for treason in 1945.
		When the Allies landed in Normandy in June 1944, the British Free Corps was thrown into confusion.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /british_free_corps.htm (741 words)

	British Free Corps
		To try and calm this, the most senior British POW, one Major-General Fortune, was asked to send a representative to the holiday camp to inspect it; he selected Brigadier Leonard Parrington, who inspected the facilities, and incorrectly reported it was indeed a holiday camp and the POWs should not worry.
		In the meantime, Wilson, who was supposed to be sending the BFC men their Red Cross parcels (the BFC were still classified as POWs, and thus still received the parcels), chose to hoard them instead and deserted to Berlin on April 9, 1945.
		The only person who can be proved to have seen combat in the uniform of the BFC was their translator "Bob" Rossler, who remained with the Nordland division when it went into battle in Berlin, to fight alongside the Volkssturm, Hitlerjugend, and the other mixed bag units defending the city.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/britishfreecorps.html (6058 words)

	Unit History of the British Free Corps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The German Waffen-SS "British Free Corps" (hereafter shortened to BFC), was the brainchild of John Amery.
		In April of 1944, the BFC was issued its distinctive insignia, the three lion passant collar tab, the Union Jack arm shield, and the cuff title bearing "British Free Corps" in Gothic-script.
		Still, the BFC was rattled and tensions between members were evident, made worse by Cooper seeking to instill SS-style discipline and methods, which was alien to the Englishmen whose experience with the British army was more lenient.
	members.aol.com /sturmpnzr/BFChistory.html (6717 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Traitor, The
		British SOE agent Captain Lockhart is captured by Germans in 1943.
		British SOE agent Captain John Lockhart is in Crete, fighting with the Resistance.
		He is to lead a unit of the Waffen SS made up of British fascists and renegades culled from POW camps: the British Free Corps, Lockhart takes command, but he has an audacious plan to free his wife and other innocent victims of the war - whatever the personal cost.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books?whatfor=0755300564 (204 words)

	Adrian Weale. British Free Corps in SS-Waffen
		In August Tom Perkins was dismissed from BFC and sent to isolation camp for stealing a pistol (it was sold to a foreign worker).
		Ziegler agreed and the “free Britons” were withdrawn to Templin.
		I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world.
	argo.net.au /andre/renegades_ENFIN.htm (3024 words)

	The Versailles Treaty and Imperialism, 1919
		The representative at Paris for the British was its prime minister, David Lloyd-George.
		The German port city of Danzig (Gdansk) was detached from Germany and made a free city to be governed by a commission appointed by the League of Nations.
		A British delegate to the conference, John Maynard Keynes, resigned from his delegation in protest.
	fsmitha.com /h2/ch09.htm (2602 words)

	Axis History Factbook: Britisches Freikorps
		The forming of a British legion was first suggested by John Amery, son of Leopold Stennet Amery, Secretary of State for India in Winston Churchill's war cabinet, who also made a failed attempt to find volunteers for the unit.
		The proclamation written by John Amery when the Legion of St. George, later renamed British Free Corps, was founded.
		The "British Free Corps" cuff title was authorized for this unit.
	www.axishistory.com /index.php?id=1665 (299 words)

	Feldgrau.net :: View topic - Channel five's 'British Free Corps'
		Ive heard much about the british free corps but what about the other countrys like india and america as well as was there any irish in the german army or the ss.
		The reason that the BFC did not fight in Berlin was because they were ordered not to by their corps commander, General der Waffen-SS Felix Steiner.
		The BFC were at the Pionier school at Dresden and along with other SS Pioniere took part in the clean up after the fire raid in February 1945.
	feldgrau.net /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=664&highlight=british+free+corps (3322 words)

	British Free Corps - MILITARIA COLLECTING FORUM
		The BFC was the brainchild of Englishman John Amery (a son of Churchill's Secretary for India) who proposed the formation of an anti-Bolshevik legion, comprised of British Empire prisoners of war, to fight for Germany on the Eastern Front (he optimistically predicted that over 5000 would join up).
		Several British volunteers were in Berlin during the battle for the city.from the last remnants of the BFC coordination staff, as war reporters, or as volunteer medics with SS-Nordland.
		Before anyone asks,no I,ve not found any BFC regalia yet,but I now work at the local museum and am going to have a peek at their 3 Reich militaria(which is stored and not on display so here,s hoping!).
	www.militariacollecting.com /index.php?showtopic=1121 (3054 words)

	British Volunteers in the German Wehrmacht in WWII
		Amery was in Paris at the time of France's surrender in 1940 and may have been inspired by the advent of the formation of the Vichy Legion des Volontaires Francais being allowed by Germany.
		Reports of mass-desertion by BFC men in comtemporary accounts are unfounded, as unsuitable candidates of this ilk were sent back to their PoW cages long before they were issued SS-soldbuchs and allowed the relative freedom of camp-life in a rear area, or front-line duty.
		All members of the BFC were issued their Soldbuchs using psuedonyms.
	www.feldgrau.com /gb.html (1385 words)

	Renegades (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is not by any means a glorious story, the British Free Corps of the SS attracted a motley bunch of misfits, losers and chancers - much like British fascism in general.
		It was not simply the SS who found room for British Nazis who had ditched national; feeling in favour of racial or political ideology.
		Lesser known is the case of John Amery, wayward son of British politician Leo Amery.
	www.blackstarreview.com /rev-0119.html (374 words)

	Britisches Frei-Korps / British Free Corps
		The British Free Corps was formed in January of 1944 from a group of British and Commonwealth volunteers under German control known as the Legion of St. George.
		In February of 1945 it was deemed finished and began preperation for combat assignments within the III.SS-Panzer-Korps.
		On March 22, 1945 the 11.SS-Pz.Gr.Div Nordland was given a respite from the Russian Front and Oder River and sent to regroup at Schwedt-Angermunde.
	www.feldgrau.com /wssbf.html (698 words)

	Amazon.com: Hitler's Bastard : Through Hell and Back in Nazi Germany and Stalin's Russia (Ian Sayer and Douglas ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He was full of contrasts; an anti-war pacifist but a Waffen SS member of the British Free Corps,a one time bodyguard to British Royalty and a circus strong man. He was also a thief, a liar and a slave laborer in the Soviet Gulags.
		This is the first book that I have found that hads given a good description of the Waffen SS unit, British Free Corps and it reveals the shameful collaboration of the British people on Jersy with the occupying Germans, a fact that I am sure many wanted to remain hidden.
		The hardest things to swallow are the reasons why he decides to join the British Free Corps of the German SS.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1840187433?v=glance (1275 words)

	Full_Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Captured by the Germans, Lockhart faces a stark choice: in return for the life of his imprisoned wife, he must work with the Germans.
		He is to lead a unit of the Waffen SS, made up of British fascists and renegades: the British Free Corps.
		Lockhart reluctantly takes command, but he has an audacious plan to free his wife and other innocent victims of the war, whatever the personal cost.
	www.dymocks.com.au /contentdynamic/full_details.asp?isbn=0755304810 (122 words)

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	www.milag.org /milag/Milagpage1.htm (706 words)

	Wikinfo \| Freikorps
		The Freikorps (German for "Free Corps") were far-right paramilitary organizations that sprung up around Germany as soldiers returned in defeat from World War I.
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	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Freikorps (292 words)

	Randomhouse \| Books \| Renegades by Adrian Weale
		Contrary to the perception of a staunchly unified Britain in the face of Nazism during WWII, there were many who, for various reasons, turned traitor.
		At the end of the War, nearly 200 British citizens were under investigation for assisting Nazi Germany.
		Adrian Weale traces the course of treason from its roots in Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists, and includes the first complete account of the British Free Corps - the Waffen-SS unit composed entirely of British subjects.
	randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780712667647&view=print (88 words)

	UK bfc Websites
		MI5 report on the BFC - World War Two - Treason - MI5 Report on the BFC Introduction ThisMI5's Report on the British Free Corps (BFC) dated 27 March 1945.
		BFC Specialist Architectural Services - Architectural Services, Knottingley - Architects & Services BFC Specialist Architectural Services - Architecturaladvice about insurance in the USA.
		British Free Corps - they would never be required to fight the British.
	www.splut.co.uk /sub/b/bfc.html (679 words)

	Amazon.com: Snides: Books: Tony Walker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It's a gripping chase for possession of a rare Nazi document and some incriminating photographs of a British renegade who fought for Hitler's Waffen-SS in WWII, as a member of the infamous British Free Corps.
		However, the makers of Snides can sometimes make errors, as with one manufacturer making SS cuff titles for the British Free Corps, a unit of the Waffen-SS recruited from British POW's in Germany, who joined to 'fight Bolshevism'.
		Unfortunately, photographs of BFC members show that the words were in fact "British Free Corps', embroidered in English!
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1595261222?v=glance (943 words)

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