1. Werner Heubeck was initially posted to anti-invasion duties in western France, then moved to Italy, before being assigned to the Afrika Korps in the last stages of the North African Campaign.
11 Facts About Werner Heubeck
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Werner Heubeck was repatriated in 1946, and returned to Nuremberg to rebuild his family home.
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Werner Heubeck was naturalised as a British citizen in 1954, at the time he was described as a "Development Assistant" and was living in Govilon, Abergavenny, Wales.
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The Ulster Transport Authority, as it was then known, had been making serious losses, and in 1967, Werner Heubeck headed up a major revamping of the bus side of the organisation, which was rebranded as Ulsterbus.
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Werner Heubeck succeeded in running Ulsterbus and Citybus profitably at a time when conventional wisdom said that public transport could never be run profitably.
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Werner Heubeck was well known at the time for personally boarding buses and removing bombs himself to keep the buses running to schedule.
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Werner Heubeck moved to near the village of Gleno in County Antrim where he produced handmade artefacts and furniture for local churches.
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Werner Heubeck later moved to Shetland where one of his three sons worked as an ornithologist.
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Werner Heubeck died on 19 October 2009, aged 85, a month after the death of his wife Monica.
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Werner Heubeck had been living with cancer for several years.
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Werner Heubeck was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1977 Queen's Birthday Honours.