Roy Courlander
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Roy Nicolas Courlander, nicknamed 'Reg', was a British-born New Zealand soldier who became an Unterscharführer in the German Waffen-SS British Free Corps during the Second World War.
Roy Courlander
British Free Corps
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The British Free Corps was a unit of the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II, made up of British and Dominion prisoners of war who had been recruited by Germany. The unit was originally know
Roy Courlander
…Courlander (6 December 1914 – 1 June 1979), nicknamed 'Reg', was a British-born New Zealand soldier who became an Unterscharführer in the German Waffen-SS British Free Corps during the Second World War. Born out of wedlock in December 1914, Courlander was adopted by Lithuanian Jewish businessman Leonard Henry Courlander…
Two early recruits to the BFC: Kenneth Berry (second left) and Alfred Minchin (second right), with German officers, April 1944
SS-Rottenführer William Brittain, February 1945
SS-Oberscharführer Thomas Haller Cooper (British mugshot, 1945)