Fritz Duquesne, the most notable of the POWs held at Bermuda. Escaping from the camps, he was able to leave Bermuda with the aid of a woman he had romanced (and later married). Duquesne was born in the British Cape colony and, despite being an Afrikaaner was technically considered a traitor and subject to execution when captured. Escaping this sentence he was sent to Bermuda, instead. After the War, he remained in the West, travelling about Latin America involved in some skulduggery, and committing a number of larcenies in the US where he settled. During the Great War, he operated a cell of pro-German spies and saboteurs, planting bombs on British shipping in US ports. He later was claimed to have been responsible for the bomb which sank the ship carrying Lord Kitchener, but this seems more than unlikely. The British Government demanded his extradition, but he escaped from custody in New York. During the Second World War, Duquesne was again caught heading a pro-German cell, and was interned for the rest of the War. Sent to prison, he died not long after his parole in the 1950s. (See Colin Benbow's Boer Prisoners of War in Bermuda, Bermuda Historical Society.)