Fritz Ilx was born in Breslau, Germany in 1916 and died in Bonnybridge in 1998. He served in the German Air Force from 1930 to 1944 when he was captured by American forces. He was held at Camp Carson, Colorado and Camp Indianola, Nebraska and then transferred to Castle Rankine Camp, Bonnybridge in 1946. From there he worked on Bonnyhill Farm, and after his discharge in 1948 he remained in Bonnybridge. He was previously married in Germany and had children, who made contact through the Red Cross in the 1950s but he lost contact with them. He died in 1998 in Bonnybridge Hospital.