Edwin Barnard Martin


Edwin Barnard Martin was a member of the British Free Corps during the Second World War. A Canadian from Riverside, Ontario, Martin was a private in the Canadian Army's Essex Scottish Regiment who had been captured during the controversial Dieppe raid in August 1942. In March 1944 he 'voluntarily left BFC for the isolation camp, by then situated near Schwerin in Mecklenburg.' The Canadian court-martial which heard his case after the War passed a sentence of 25 years' imprisonment for being an informer and a member of the British Free Corps.