The idea for the British Free Corps came from John Amery, a British fascist, son of the serving British
The … See more

The BFC did not have a "commander" per se as it was the intention of the SS to appoint a British commander when a suitable British officer came forward. However, three German Waffen-SS officers acted as th… See more

Leading members of the Corps included Thomas Haller Cooper (although he was actually an Unterscharführer in the Waffen-SS proper ), Roy Courlander, Edwin Barnard Martin, Frank McLardy, Alfred Minchin and John Wilso… See more

In March 1945, a BFC detachment was deployed with the 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland under Brigadeführer Joachim Ziegler, which was composed largely of Scandinavian volunteers … See more

Newspapers of the period give details of the court-martial of several Commonwealth soldiers involved in the Corps. One Canadian captive, Private Edwin Barnard Martin, said he joined the Corps "to wreck it". He desi… See more

• The film Joy Division (2006) portrays a member of the BFC, Sergeant Harry Stone, among the German troops and refugees fleeing the Red Army advance into Germany. In the film it is the aggressive Stone who … See more

• SS-Rottenführer William Brittain, February 1945
• SS-Oberscharführer Thomas Haller Cooper (British mugshot, 1945)
• SS-Unterscharführer Roy Courlander, 1944 … See more