22 Facts About Roy Courlander

Roy Courlander's mother married Frederick Bohne in 1933 and eventually moved to New Zealand in the 1950s where she died in 1970.

Roy Courlander's father remarried Gwendoline Elmes and moved to Sydney, Australia.

In November 1938, Roy Courlander arrived in New Zealand and found work as a clerk with the Land and Income Tax Department in Wellington.

Roy Courlander and Keen's sentences were reduced on appeal to 18 months probation from 14 June 1939.

Roy Courlander held that his reason for going to the house was for a meal and that this was at Keen's invitation.

Roy Courlander moved to Auckland on 30 September 1939 and married Joan Beryl Marchand there.

Roy Courlander sailed for Egypt on RMS Orion and served in Greece with the 18th Battalion.

Roy Courlander joined work parties in Austria and eventually in September 1943 was sent to Genshagen camp in Berlin.

Roy Courlander participated in Nazi broadcasts to the United Kingdom.

At his court martial, statements were made that Roy Courlander was seeking to oust John Amery and take control of the Corps.

Roy Courlander told them that Adolf Hitler had told BFC members that if Britain was defeated, the former King Edward VIII would replace George VI on the throne and Oswald Mosley would become the Prime Minister.

Roy Courlander provided background information on the formation of the BFC.

Lance Corporal Roy Courlander was arrested and tried by court martial by the New Zealand military authorities in Westgate-on-Sea near Margate in Kent, England.

Wilson gave evidence that Roy Courlander had told him he was trying to persuade the Germans to allow a corps of free British to fight the Russians.

Roy Courlander pleaded not guilty to the charge and stated that he had joined the BFC to facilitate escaping, but as that did not eventuate had sought to find a way to control and use the unit against the Germans.

In 1946, Roy Courlander was transferred to Mount Eden Prison in Auckland.

Roy Courlander appealed against his sentence, and in May 1950 it was reduced to 9 years.

Roy Courlander was released on 2 October 1951 and married Margaret Spence the same day.

Roy Courlander obtained a job working for a business directory company and during the late 1950s was involved in the New Zealand Social Credit Political League.

Roy Courlander moved to Australia during the 1960s to start a new life, divorcing his wife in 1968.

Roy Courlander ended up in a small industrial town of Lethbridge Park, near Sydney, which at the time was home to many serving and former soldiers and another former SS soldier.

Roy Courlander died in Australia in 1979 at the age of 64.