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Edwin Barnard Martin (11 February 1919 – 16 August 1987) was a Canadian member of the British Free Corps, a component of the armed forces of Nazi Germany, during the Second World War. Martin was born in February 1919 and hailed from Riverside, Ontario. He was a private in the Canadian Army's The Essex Scottish Regiment, who had been captured during the controversial Dieppe Raid in August 1942. In March 1944, he voluntarily left BFC for the isolation camp, by then situated near Schwerin in Mecklenburg.' The Canadian court-martial which heard his case after the war passed a sentence of 25 years imprisonment for being an informer and a member of the British Free Corps. Martin died in Ontario in August 1987 at the age of 68.

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  • Edwin Barnard Martin (11 February 1919 – 16 August 1987) was a Canadian member of the British Free Corps, a component of the armed forces of Nazi Germany, during the Second World War. Martin was born in February 1919 and hailed from Riverside, Ontario. He was a private in the Canadian Army's The Essex Scottish Regiment, who had been captured during the controversial Dieppe Raid in August 1942. In March 1944, he voluntarily left BFC for the isolation camp, by then situated near Schwerin in Mecklenburg.' The Canadian court-martial which heard his case after the war passed a sentence of 25 years imprisonment for being an informer and a member of the British Free Corps. Martin died in Ontario in August 1987 at the age of 68. (en)
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  • Edwin Barnard Martin (11 February 1919 – 16 August 1987) was a Canadian member of the British Free Corps, a component of the armed forces of Nazi Germany, during the Second World War. Martin was born in February 1919 and hailed from Riverside, Ontario. He was a private in the Canadian Army's The Essex Scottish Regiment, who had been captured during the controversial Dieppe Raid in August 1942. In March 1944, he voluntarily left BFC for the isolation camp, by then situated near Schwerin in Mecklenburg.' The Canadian court-martial which heard his case after the war passed a sentence of 25 years imprisonment for being an informer and a member of the British Free Corps. Martin died in Ontario in August 1987 at the age of 68. (en)
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  • Edwin Barnard Martin (en)
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