Smiths Falls
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Smiths Falls is a town in Eastern Ontario, Canada, 78 kilometres southwest of Ottawa. As of the 2021 census it has a population of 9,254. It is in the Census division for Lanark County, but is adminis
Smiths Falls, Ontario
Rideau River in Smiths Falls
Bascule bridge, a Canadian National Historic Site
Elmcroft, the house Francis T. Frost built in Smiths Falls in 1895
Franz von Werra
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Franz Xaver Freiherr von Werra was a German World War II fighter pilot and flying ace who was shot down over Britain and captured. He was the only Axis prisoner of war to escape from Canadian custody
Smiths Falls
…War II, Axis prisoners of war (POWs) were transported to Canadian POW camps via the railway. It was near Smiths Falls that German soldier Oberleutnant Franz von Werra jumped from a POW train and escaped to the United States, eventually reaching his homeland. Von Werra was, reputedly, the only escaped Axis POW to…
Franz Freiherr von Werra
Franz von Werra's Bf 109E-4, pictured at Marden, Kent