261886 Capt. Hugh Hallam Ledger British Army 51st Highland Division Royal Signals from:Nottingham Hugh Ledger was my father.
After he came home to Nottingham in 1945. He told me nothing about his time in captivity, and died suddenly at the early age of 59. The only thing he ever told me was that he built a rudimentary waterproof radio receiver, which was hidden in a lavatory cistern.
I was a Merchant Navy Officer from 1957 and never really got to know him as he divorced my mother in 1946. Many regrets.
I have pieced together his time from capture at St Valery with the 51st Highland Division from what few details he left.
Strangely the daughter of the Padre, Capt. King, at Laufen camp, lives a few doors from me in Oxford. He too was captured at St Valery.
RIP Dad.
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