And here is conclusive proof!
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Hi Urs. Thank you very much for your suggestion, which makes perfect sense. One detail that I didn't share, because I didn't realise the significance, is that Fürbringer is named in the notes for the copy of the image held by the Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre: "UB39 (Furbringer) North sea fisherman watch as their trawler sunk 13th July 1916". So the clue to the identit
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Hi all. I'm writing a social history piece about the Grimsby fishing industry from the 1890s to 1950, based on the life of one of my grandfather's cousins. Can anyone help me with information about the image of the fishermen taken prisoner on a U-boat on this web page: The photo was obviously taken by a German submariner. A contact at the Scarborough museum website tells me th
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