“Bashert”    by Conrad Singer                       Page:  Contents & Photos

 

 

 

Chapter

CONTENTS & PHOTOS

 

Introduction

1

Growing up

2

Conscription

3

Moving on

4

Aboard the Verbormilia

5

At Sea Again

6

Spain

7

A Commitment to Spain

8

An Involuntary Accident

9

Barcelona

10

The International Brigade

11

Teruel

12

Ebro & Retreat

13

In the footsteps of Beau Geste

14

The British Army

15

On the Path to Riches

Timeline

Spanish Civil War (1937-39) background

 

 
   

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PHOTO & MAP CONTENTS

Year

Age

Group photo position or comments

Conrad Singer (me), age 92

2005

92

in my flat in Heathlands Village, Prestwich

Family Portrait

1921

8

front row, 3rd from right

Macabee Jewish Youth movement

1930

 17

2nd row, on right

MAP – Braila, Black Sea, Turkey

 

 

 

Before Army service

1929

16

 

Romanian Army Conscript

33/34

20

 

Verbormilia, home port, pose as poor sailor

1935

 22

I’m posing as Charle Gabon in an old movie where he played a poor sailor. I really was a “poor sailor”!

Close up of above photo.

 

 

Note the flat cap. Perhaps I was destined to live in the Northwest?

Verbormilia, Bay of Copenhagen

1936

 24 

my ship is trapped in the icepack

Mum & one of my brothers, Bucharest

1936

 

 

MAP: my voyages to Spain & scene of battles

 

 

Spanish Republican Army – my picture

1937

25

 

Calandra, Aragon prior to Teruel battle

Dec ‘37

26

 

Internment camp de Gurs, Romanian section, Pyranees

1939

27

seated left, waiting for haircut

Internment camp de Gurs

39/40

 

 

French Foreign Legion – my picture

1940

27

 

French Foreign Legion

1940

27

 

French Foreign Legion

 

F F Legion, on manouvres

1940

 28

 

F F Legion, 3rd Reg, Fez, Morocco

Standing, 4th from left

Sahara Internment

1942

29

 

Jewish Family, Bergent, Morocco

1942

"

Passover, I’m on right hand on hip

Building Trans-Saharan Railway

40/42

30

I’m 1st left leaning on my right arm

MAP: Fez where I served, Internment near Oujda and deeper into the Sahara

Signal Training Corps,

1943

30

2nd row, 3rd from right

Trieste (Italian Adriatic), British Army

Late ‘45

 32

Stationed in Italy, British Warship in background

Lido de Venice (Hotel Rex)

1945

 "

On British Army Training Course after WW II ended

Portrait, British Army, 16.1.46

1946

 33

Photo sent to Lilly after intro by Newcastle family. Lilly fell in love with my picture!

Wedding. Newcastle-u-Tyne

1947

34

 

Family Portrait, Blackpool

1962

49

Left to right: Theodore, Lilly, Judith (back), Deborah, self, Raquel

 

 
     
   

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