Rudolph Hess.

Walter Fenton was my grandfather. He died quite a few years ago. He used to live in Cambridge, being a librarian at Peterhouse College and also sang, as a tenor in the Kings College Chapel Choir. He moved to a village called Melton in Suffolk, where we were living at the time and only moved in with my parents after my Grandmother died. This was Wickham Market, also in Suffolk and he remained with them till he died.
He fought in the First World War, I believe, but he made his name, as far as his family were concerned, in WW2. When Rudolph Hess flew to Scotland and was eventually imprisoned, I believe that one of the prison camps he was held in was somewhere in North Wales. My grandfather was one of his many guards. I think I am right in saying that Grandad was also mentioned in one of the biographies written about Hess. I cannot remember what rank my Grandad was or what unit he was in but I know that the story was picked up by the local newspaper, The East Anglian Times, and they sent a reporter a reported to see him and there was a short story printed in the paper.

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