Fron Goch
Private Julius Reinhard Koch
Cpl Heinrich Brinkmann, aged 24
Private Hans Schoenherr, aged 21
Private Wilhelm Arenkens, aged 23
escaped from Fron Goch on the 13th April 1916 heading for Liverpool. They hoped to get on a neutral ship and make their way back to Germany.
Dyffren Aled
In August 1915 Hermann Tholens, Heinrich von Hennig and Hans Werner von Helldorff (some reports give a difference forename - Wollf-Dietrich - possibly his brother) had a scheme to meet with a U-Boat (believed to be U-38) just off the Welsh coast near Llandudno which nearly succeeded.
Tholens was later a senior member of the Nazi Party :
Hennig was a U-Boat commander
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