Edwin Barnard Martin

Edwin Barnard Martin (11 February 1919 – 16 August 1987) was a Canadian member of the British Free Corps, a component of the armed forces of Nazi Germany, during the Second World War.

Martin was born in February 1919 and hailed from Riverside, Ontario. He was a private in the Canadian Army's The Essex Scottish Regiment, who had been captured during the controversial Dieppe Raid in August 1942.[1] In March 1944, he voluntarily left BFC for the isolation camp, by then situated near Schwerin in Mecklenburg.'[2] The Canadian court-martial which heard his case after the war passed a sentence of 25 years imprisonment for being an informer and a member of the British Free Corps.[3] Martin died in Ontario in August 1987 at the age of 68.[4][5]