Frank McLardy
Frank McLardy (born November 17, 1915 as George Francis McLardy in Waterloo , Metropolitan Borough of Sefton , United Kingdom , † December 16, 1981 in Ingelheim am Rhein , Germany ) was an official of the British Union of Fascists during the 1930s and during the During the Second World War a deserter who joined the Waffen SS .
Life
McLardy was born in Waterloo, Northern England. After high school he studied pharmacy at the College of Technology and Museum Extension in Liverpool before setting up as a pharmacist near Forby . In 1934 McLardy joined the British Union of Fascists, where he was first treasurer and later district manager in his home district of Waterloo. After the war began, he was drafted into the British Army and came to France as a sergeant in the Royal Army Medical Corps of the British Expeditionary Force . At the end of May 1940, McLardy was captured by Germany as a prisoner of war near Wormhout , where a Waffen SS massacre had recently occurred.
In 1943 McLardy volunteered from captivity to the British Freikorps , a unit of the Waffen SS for British deserters. Some of the members, such as B. Thomas Haller Cooper , like McLardy, were members of fascist parties before the war. McLardy himself was supposed to recruit other British prisoners of war for the Freikorps. During the war he held the rank of SS-Untersturmführer . He was also a member of the SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers and was responsible for the medical service of the SS worked. At the end of the war, McLardy was arrested by American troops near Döhren and transferred to Great Britain.
In 1946, a court martial sentenced him to life imprisonment for aiding the enemy, which was reduced to 15 years, of which he only served seven. After his release from prison, he moved to Germany, where he married and worked as a pharmacist near Mainz . He died in 1981.
Individual evidence
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- ^ The national archives , accessed February 14, 2014.
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| SURNAME | McLardy, Frank |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McLardy, George Francis (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Union of Fascists and a deserter during World War II |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Waterloo , Metropolitan Borough of Sefton , United Kingdom |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 16, 1981 |
| Place of death | Ingelheim am Rhein , Germany |