MI5 records reveal that Eddie Chapman, an English criminal and later double agent who came to Jersey before the war, made a statement in December 1942 claiming that he and Charles Faramus planned to escape from the Island together. The two of them, Eddie alleged, decided to offer their services to the German secret services, hoping to be sent to the UK, where they would then escape. Those records go on to state that after they had done so, a German officer came to Anthony’s hairdressing shop and arrested them both on a charge of sabotage, and within the hour they had been put on a boat to France.  

 The men were escorted by cargo boat and train to Paris and taken first to a cell in the lodge at the main entrance of the Saint-Denis British civilian internment camp. They were then moved to Fort de Romainville, probably in late January or early February 1942. While Eddie left Romainville on 10 April 1942, volunteering to work as a spy for the German authorities, Anthony stayed. Anthony left Romainville for Compiègne-Royallieu internment and transit camp late in 1943. Records from Buchenwald concentration camp state that Anthony arrived on 24 January 1944 and stayed almost a whole year until 8/9 December 1944. He was then sent to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, where he remained until the camp was liberated on 5 May 1945.  

 After the war, Anthony suffered with PTSD, nightmares and tuberculosis from Mauthausen, which led to the removal of eight ribs and the permanent collapse of a lung. He found it hard to work or settle down, sometimes sleeping rough, and was in and out of prison and hospital, according to his 1990 memoir.