History of Swindon Town F.C. War Department requisitioned the County Ground for use as a Prisoner-of-war camp, Swindon Town as a football club effectively ceased to be for the duration. The club's assets and players were sold or transferred until the season restarted. Three Swindon Town F.C players—Alan Fowler, Willie Imrie and Dennis Olney—were killed in action during the war and are commemorated with a memorial inside the ground above the players tunnel. The post-war era saw Swindon competing in the lower divisions of the English League, though in 1963 the club was promoted to the Second Division after finishing 2nd in Division 3 in
Skorpa prisoner of war camp placed as an interim measure in the same camp as the military captives. The senior German prisoner held at the camp was "Fregattenkapitän" Alfred Schulze-Hinrichs, who had been captured after his destroyer, the "Erich Koellner", was sunk on 13 April during the naval battles off Narvik. Along with 154 other prisoners he had first been sent to an internment camp at Vardøhus Fortress in Finnmark on the 1,382 ton Norwegian steamship "Nova". After having been held at Vardøhus from 24 April to 13 May, the 155 Germans were shipped to Skorpa, again on the "Nova". On the way to Skorpa