POW Camp 115, Whitecross, St Columb Major

The site was laid out in ranks of white concrete huts and was dominated by a tall Water tower.

One of the more notable German prisoners was Herbert Klein, the future 1952 Olympic bronze medalist and four time world record holder in the breaststroke.

They finally allowed him to do so and he won his race by a substantial margin in the 1947 Cornwall Swimming Championships held in Fowey Harbour.

[1] The Italians built their own elaborately decorated church with an ornate altar, but the latter was later destroyed by the German PoWs.

Besides the church, the inmates were allowed to level ground and construct a football pitch.