Mar 01 2024 33 mins 1
Intrigued by a German sounding name on a war memorial at Walford, just outside Ross-on-Wye, Col Andy Taylor and Rev Paul Roberts do some detective work in this episode. They uncover the story Colin Baumgarte, killed with the Worcestershire Regiment on 27th August 1917 and his brother Conrad Baumgarte who served with the Herefordshire Regiment; the brother's Hannover-born father, Henry; and his links with trade in the town.
This leads our intrepid pair to the Market Place in Ross where Henry kept a hairdresser and tobacconists, and to links with the Ross Rifle Volunteers in the Boer War. Later they head down to Ye Old Ferrie Inn, near Symonds Yat on the banks of the Wye near to where the Baumgartes kept the Royal Hotel (now the Royal Lodge).
Along the way they discover what the "Gothenburg Principle" was and also the weight of the heaviest salmon pulled out of the river in the 1912 season.
Finally a poignant end to the episode where they explore the fate of other members of the Baumgarte family who stayed in Germany.
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Theme Tune - The Lincolnshire Poacher, performed by the outstanding Haverhill Silver Band.
This podcast generously supported by the Army Museums Ogilby Trust.
