Helga had by then taken up with Hugh Wall-Row, a dashing lieutenant in the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards stationed in Hamburg.
When he was “demobbed” early for fraternising with the enemy and for having an affair with a German woman
Who knew getting out of the Army was that easy?
Wall-Row sounds like an Eton hazing ritual.
Or a large boundary dispute. Not involving Leylandii.
I would imagine dashing lieutenant in the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards was an important factor there. Otherwise it would have been a posting to somewhere hot, humid & no indoor plumbing.
Funny business. My father was in the Grenadiers with Wall-Row. My Aryan-looking mother – a blue-eyed blonde – was once intercepted by the regimental police on her way to the officers’ mess in Dusseldorf. They assumed from her looks that she was the ex-mistress of an SS general seeking new employment. Her cut-glass English accent put them right. Another Grenadier officer – very posh Old Etonian – was disinherited by his family for marrying a tart he had picked up at the Bag O’ Nails club in London. Different times.
Nicholas Best, I was interested by your comment “My father was in the Grenadiers with Wall-Row. My Aryan-looking mother – a blue-eyed blonde – was once intercepted by the regimental police on her way to the officers’ mess in Dusseldorf. They assumed from her looks that she was the ex-mistress of an SS general seeking new employment. Her cut-glass English accent put them right. Another Grenadier officer – very posh Old Etonian – was disinherited by his family for marrying a tart he had picked up at the Bag O’ Nails club in London. ” Was your father with Wall-Row from May 3 1945 when the British forces (including the Grenadier Guards) entered Hamburg? Did you pick up any anecdotes (or facts even) about Wall-Row getting de-mobbed? My long-form research on Helga and Wall-Row is at https://marcusbicknell.wordpress.com/2023/03/12/helga-e-wall-row-raw-nee-ronn-her-life/. My email is [email protected]