‘HERBERT WAS JUST WEEKS FROM FREEDOM’
MAXINE FOLEY SPEAKMAN is a former nanny who lives in Warrington, Cheshire. She has been researching her family history since 2007
During the First World War, at least 2.4 million prisoners of war were captured by German forces. Many carried out hard labour in camps where disease was rife and food was scarce.
Maxine Foley Speakman discovered that one of her relatives had been a POW from 1914 to 1918. She also found touching newspaper reports from the time, which tell of the
