Alfred Minchin, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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British merchant seaman and Nazi collaborator
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About Alfred Minchin
- Alfred Vivian Minchin (27 January 1917 – February 1998) was a British merchant seaman who was taken prisoner by a German destroyer after his ship, the SS Empire Ranger, one of a Murmansk convoy, was sunk by German bombers off Norway, and later a Sturmmann in the Waffen-SS British Free Corps during the Second World War.
- He was taken prisoner on 28 March 1942.
- It was he who suggested the name for the British Free Corps.
- By 8 March 1945 he 'was being treated for scabies in the SS hospital at Lichtefelde-West.' The National Archives holds the depositions for his trial at the Central Criminal Court under reference CRIM 1/485 and a Home Office file on him under reference HO 45/25817.
- He was 'convicted at Central Criminal Court on 5 February 1946 of conspiring to assist the enemy and sentenced to 7 years penal servitude' for offences against the Defence Regulations.
- He died in 1998 at the age of 81.
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