Training
Dr. Hoven explains that on arrival in Berlin,
"they were given instruction at the Abwehr training establishment on the Quenzgut, in the improvised manufacture of explosives, incendiaries and such like. Also, in the district of a troop training area in western Germany, they were instructed in Abwehr radio procedure."
The men involved in the training and orientation in Berlin were:
- Sergeant John Codd, Dublin, County Dublin
- Fusilier James Brady, Strokestown, County Roscommon
- Private Frank Stringer, Gravelstown, County Meath
- Private William Murphy, Enniscorthy, County Wexford
- Private Patrick O'Brien, Nenagh, County Tipperary
- Private Strogen, Duleek, County Meath
- Private Crawley, Bridge Street, Mountmellick, County Laois
- Private Thomas J. Cushing, Tipperary Town, County Tipperary
- Private Andrew Walsh, Fethard, County Tipperary
- James Cromwell O'Neill, County Wexford
Codd was selected to take part in Operation Innkeeper. Brady and Walsh were selected to take part in Operations Seagull I and Seagull II. Cromwell O'Neill (a civilian captured on an interned freighter) and codenamed "Eisenbart" was sent on a mission to spy in Northern Ireland although he turned himself in after reaching London.
Other than the "suspect" Irish nationals known to have been at Friesack there was also:
- William Sargent (or Sergeant) from Kilmallock, County Limerick,
- John Kenny
- Liam Mullally and Dan Reeves from Dublin who both worked for the Deutscher Fichte-Bund.
Read more about this topic: Friesack Camp
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