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By Paul McNeil Posted on May 5, 2025May 9, 2025

Prisoner of War: The Redknapp Family Story Part 4


Being a tough young Cockney Docker refused to divulge any information to the Nazi interrogators.

Categories: Celebrity, genealogyTags: Cockney, Docker, Harry Redknapp, history, Jamie redknapp, military-history, Stalag, time detectives, VE Day, Villers-Bocage, world-war-2, WW2, wwii
By Paul McNeil Posted on February 11, 2017December 24, 2022

Part 1: Finding the “Lost Temple” for an Old Mate


Tall Stories I have known Les since we started our first job together at the Greater London Council’s Electronic Maintenance Section, he was sixteen and I was eighteen.  Electronics sounded like … Continue reading Part 1: Finding the “Lost Temple” for an Old Mate

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