Please help! I am looking for my father who must have been in a british regiment that fought it's way up to Hamburg during the hostilities of World War II.

I would like to ask you all to help me if you are able to do so. Especially Ex-British Army soldiers and personnel who served in World War II might be capable to really help.

If you think you could help me, I would like to ask you to support my research. Thank you for your support.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My name is Helga Stuzmann, nee Musial and I was born in April 1946 and am the daughter of a British soldier who was based in Maschen, Northern Germany, just across the river Elbe from Hamburg. My mothers name was Elisabeth Musial. These are photos of her with me at about two years of age.


 

 

 

 










Elisabeth lived with her parents and eight brothers and sisters, and many more refugees from East Germany in the dance hall of this inn called 'Horster Heide'.















My father, a british soldier was stationed in Maschen, county Harburg, near Hamburg, Germany in June / July of 1945. He would pick up my mother at the "Horster Heide" (now Heidehaus, see photo above).
He drove a jeep in which he come to fetch my mother to take her out. He would bring food for the family as times were hard shortly after the war, sometimes a deer or hare or canned foods. He was about 1,80 m tall, hatte reddish-blond hair and slim.
According to my aunt who was nine years of age back then his name was "Bob" (possibly Robert).

It was not until 1994 that an uncle who was eleven years of age in 1945 told me the truth about my real father. Sadly my mom has passed on in 1974 so when I learned the truth I could not ask her about my father anymore.

A lady from Maschen also had a british friend. His name was Dr. Kenneth Wheeler, a surgeon, and he was with the "Desert Rats". Before the war he was a surgeon in Cardiff. SearchingForYou has found him for me. He now lives in Tredegar but sadly has no recollection about my father.

During my research I have also discovered that part of the 21st Army group under Major Montgomery took quarters on the property of Mayor Dr. Heitmann in Maschen.

There was a commander named David Eason. Ilse Schaub who was working for him as an interpreter. Sadly she passed on at the age of 30.

British soldiers took quarters all over in Maschen, e.g. at "Hamburger Street", "Alte Bahnhof Street", "Fachenfelder Weg", "Alter Postweg" and also in tents on the troop transporters. At the "Alte Bahnhofstrasse" near house number 119 there were tank transporters who were still there in September 1945.

A man who was 16 at the time told me that he watched when the meals were prepared and that the soldiers gave him chocolate and cigarettes.

An english soldier named "Peter" (surname unknown) came back to visit Maschen in 1958 to show his wife where he was stationed after the war in 1945.

Another soldier remembered by the people of Maschen was Peter Alexander Glenn from Motherwell, Scotland. It is unknown if this person and the afore mentioned Peter are identical.

My mother met my father a British soldier in Maschen in the summer of 1945. Unfortunately my Mum never told me much about my biological father, and I thought her german husband whom she married later was my father. He was a very good father to me, but still, since I know about my true descend I am longing to meet my father or, if he is deceased, to learn more about him and his life. I do not want to break into his life in any disturbing way. On the other hand he might be delighted to learn of my existence. I am now a woman of 59 years of age, a grandmother, and one of my three sons has reddish-blond hair just like my father, his grandfather.

Please, if anybody can help contact me. I am longing to meet my Dad or perhaps half brothers or sisters.