Bruno Neuhold, young German POW in Worcestershire
Bibliographic record
Abstract
My grandparents Trevor and Irene Bomford farmed Norval Farm, South Littleton, Worcestershire. They had bought it in 1940, after being a tenant of it. And not soon after he bought it, then their land was requisitioned for a supply depot and a Canadian army camp. A POW camp, camp number 665, for German prisoners of war was erected on that land after the Canadians joined the invasion of Normandy. Their farm, and the site of the POW camp, can be seen on drone footage in documentaries about the prison which was built on the site e.g. Channel 5’s “Inside HMP Long Lartin: Evil Behind Bars”, 2023. In 1946, a young German POW aged 19 came asking for work. His name was Bruno Neuhold, born in Belgrade. He had served in the German Arbeitsdienst, (the Reich labour service). Then Bruno was forced into the uniform of the 13th SS (Schutzstaffel) Mountain Division, including the red Fez headgear. The 13th SS went to Bosnia to fight Tito's Partisans. Then they defended Hungarian border against the Russians, before retreating to Austria where he and some of his other non-fanatical comrades, surrendered to the Allies and he became a prisoner of war. After many different camps in Italy, Scotland and England, Bruno ended up in South Littleton, in the Vale of Evesham. With a fellow POW named Josef, and my father Tony Bomford, 15, they repaired the old barn at Norval. Over 18 months Bruno and Tony developed a trusting friendship which lasted until Tony passed in 2014. Later, Bruno was released and arrived in the American zone of his homeland, where miraculously he was reunited with his two sisters. He met Ingeborg “Inge”, they married and emigrated to America in 1955. When the first of their four children was born in 1956, my Grandmother sent a silver napkin ring, engraved with the child's name, Alexandra. Bruno Neuhold became a leading sculptor in America, working in stone and wood, he had a channel on YouTube. He lived in South Milwaukee. In 2018 Bruno sent me the little St Anthony silver medallion, that Bruno's stepmother had given to him, to keep him safe, when he was just 17. Bruno died 21st August 2022.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.190 | 0.045 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".