Male enemy alien - Exemption from internment - Refugee
Surname: Metzger
Forename: Max
Alias: -
Date and place of birth: 27/04/1917 in Frankfurt
Nationality: German
Police Regn. Cert. No.: 712 106
Home Office ref: C 951
Address: Kitchener camp, Richborough, Sandwich, Kent
Normal occupation: Gardener
Present occupation:
Name and address of employer: -
Decision of tribunal: Exempted "C" & 9a
Date 16.10.1939
Whether exempted from Article 6(A): Yes
Whether desires to be repatriated: No
Tribunal District: Richborough Camp Tribunal 7
Signature of Tribunal (?) Sudgen
Source: National Archives, Home Office: Aliens Department: Internees Index, 1939-1947.
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Kitchener camp, Max Metzger, Pioneer Corps Army Form E531, Part II, 18 December 1939
Kitchener camp, Max Metzger, Pioneer Corps Army Form E531, Part VI, 18 December 1939
Kitchener camp, Max Metzger, Pioneer Corps Army Form E531, Military History Sheet, 18 December 1939
Kitchener camp, Max Metzger, Industry Group and Occuptional Classification, Vegetable and flower gardener, 69 Coy, AMPC, 5 March 1941
Kitchener camp, Max Metzger, Pioneer Corps Army Form A 2012, Enlistment form – “either of whose parents was not at birth a British subject”, 3 December 1939
Kitchener camp, Max Metzger, Pioneer Corps, 69 Company, Not willing to be employed overseas, “In the event of my capture I might be treated by the enemy as a traitor, and/or my relatives resident in enemy or enemy occupied territory might be subject to enemy reprisals, 14 August 1941
Kitchener camp, Max Metzger, Pioneer Corps, Application upheld, 19 August 1941
Kitchener camp, Max Metzger, Pioneer Corps, Army Form B200B, NRIC, DIRE/10/190, Enlisted at Richborough, End of service 19 January 1946, Discharged 10 February 1954
Kitchener camp, Max Metzger, Pioneer Corps, Army Form B200B, NRIC, DIRE/10/190, Enlisted at Richborough, End of service 19 January 1946, Discharged 10 February 1954 (bottom of previous page)
Kitchener camp, Max Metzger, Military History Sheet (cont.d), 1939/45 Star, France and Germany Star
Kitchener camp, Max Metzger, Pioneer Corps, Army Form B103-I, Service and Casualty Form, AMPC, 1 February 1946
Kitchener camp, Max Metzger, AMPC forms, 69 Coy, British Expeditionary Force to France, Changed Army number and name on 28 June 1943, Standard trade test as an electrician – passed
Kitchener camp, Max Metzger, Service and Casualty Form, Part II, Class A release to Royal Army Reserve
Kitchener camp, Max Metzger, Army Form B102 – Strength on transfer, Class A release
Kitchener camp, Max Metzger, Army Form B102 – Pioneer Corps, 69 Company, 137 Company, 114 Company, Class A release, reverse
Kitchener camp, Max Metzger, Discharge of Aliens: ID certificate, Appendix C, Address – Austrian Centre, Association of Austrians in Great Britain, 126 Westbourne Terrace, London W2, Police registration in London, 19 January 1946
Kitchener camp, Max Metzger, Pioneer Corps, Notification of impending release, 114 Company, “Has been employed as interpreter (German) in this Company and has proved of inestimable value. Is willing & reliable”, 16 January 1946
Documents submitted by Mark Proctor for his grandfather Max Metzger (Butcher)