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The Postscript Acknowledgements and Back Page
POSTCRIPT
Gerhardt Eicke was hanged on 19th November 1945.
After five years in Helsinki Sir Francis was appointed as Ambassador to Iran between the years 1950-52. Their final posting was to Warsaw, Poland where Sir Francis was British Ambassador from 1952-54. Hilda died in 1956 and Sir Francis in 1961.
Hilda wrote a letter to Dr A. S. Caldwell, my late uncle, in 1951 containing some of her German stamps and news from Iran. Over the years somehow page one of the letter went missing from the three page letter. She wrote:
*The Jim and family referred to was my father Rev Jim Caldwell 1916-1995, the author’s father. ‘And family’ that was me and my sister Joan. My brother Bruce was yet to be born.
This is the British Embassy envelope from Tehran which contained several German stamps and the letter from Mrs Campbell-S, Dineira, British Embassy Tehran.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Firstly my thanks go my god-mother Vera Wild (nee Caldwell) 1900-1994 who told me Hilda’s story when she was 92. To my late uncle, Dr A. Stanley Caldwell, former Medical officer of Health for the kingdom of Fife who provided me with the letter and stamps belonging to Aunty Campbell. Also my thanks go to his daughter Fiona for searching for a photo of Hilda. I am indebted to my mother-in-law G Shirley France who served in the Wrens at Bletchley Park during the final two years of the Second World War. It was in her 90th year that the Government at last gave her and the surviving workers at Bletchley Park, a medal in recognition of their valued and most secret work. Many never ever divulged what they did at Bletchley during World War 2.
I am indebted to Literary Agent Mathilde Vuillermoz (see MV Worldwide) for placing her trust in me as a writer and giving me the break I never thought would come.
Hilda’s Oboe
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Frau Hilda Richter was born Hilda Campbell in the highlands of Scotland. Married to a Hamburg doctor, Willy Büntner Richter, they had a son Otto who grew up and entered the German Army. After visiting her ailing parents in Elgin in 1938, she returned home to Germany just before the Second World War began. She became a double agent. Controlled by Gerhardt Eicke in Germany and Lawrence Thornton in Britain, how could Hilda cope under the strain and how did one handler confront her at the point of his death?
This is an extraordinary story based around the author’s great aunt’s life. It is gripping, tense and set in an era of great historical events.
Feel the tension in the chapters and find out what became of this remarkable woman.
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