Normanhurst Court -Battle's  Prisoner of War Camp   

 
 P.O.W Heinrich Engelhard painted this unique picture into the White family autograph book before leaving the Camp.
Text reads: "To the Memory of a Prisoner of War ...
Heinrich Engelhard,
NORMANHURST COURT, AUGUST 1947"

   

 
Heinrich (left) poses with my Mum Mabel Mary White,and Cousin Bob Eldridge,in the garden outside our home in Senlac Gardens 
 


  Original, 11"x 8"signed water-colour, given to me by Heinrich as a farewell present on his return to Hamburg to resume civilian life in post-war West Germany. I have recently tried to contact him on the Internet and by a message in a Hamburg Newspaper, without success. 


 Many Battle residents of a certain age will remember befriending the German  "residents" of Normanhurst when they were eventually allowed the "freedom of Battle".  At least one local girl married one of them. Where are they now ? Do you remember Heinrich Engelhard ?   Write to me

  Sadly, Normanhurst Court, built by Lord Brassey to resemble a French Chateau, and home of the Brassey family for many years, was  demolished after World War Two having also played an important role in the First World War when a part of it was used as a Hospital