{"id":871,"date":"2013-11-13T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/?p=871"},"modified":"2025-04-24T20:40:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T19:40:26","slug":"florence-marr-died-in-a-german-internment-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/?p=871","title":{"rendered":"Florence Marr died in a German internment camp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we remember the fallen of the World Wars and other conflicts, Association member Charlotte Wruck sends a most unusual death certificate: that of Florence (Barnes) Marr, wife of Sackett descendant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sackettfamily.info\/g3\/p3526.htm#i105780\">Sidney Marr<\/a>. The cause of death, recorded on a further document, was &#8220;cerebrale apoplexie&#8221;. Sidney and Florence were living in Guernsey at the time of the German invasion and subsequent occupation of the island during the Second World War. They were among a large number of English-born islanders deported to Germany on Hitler&#8217;s orders in reprisal for various British actions elsewhere.<br><br>Sidney was eventually released and, after the war, married Violet Burge, also an internee at Biberach Camp and a friend of Florence&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/barnesdeath.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/barnesdeath.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/barnesdeath-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we remember the fallen of the World Wars and other conflicts, Association member Charlotte Wruck sends a most unusual&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-members","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}