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Armstrong, Henry Denis

…hours. Where we were taken and why the journey took so long, I don’t know, as we arrived eventually at Capua, not a very great distance from Lecce. At Capua…

Stavert, Geoffrey Part 1 (chapters 1-7)

…Concentramento Prigionieri da Guerra Numero 66. For officer prisoners at Capua the world was a rectangle of flat, sandy ground measuring about eighty yards by sixty. Inside this enclosure were…

Blewitt, Bill

…was similar to that in which we had travelled from Naples to Capua. However, this time, we were in much better shape and we’d learned some of the tricks of…

Young, Leslie

…hrs and landed 1400 hrs. Train to Capua 2000 hrs. Thursday 22nd April 1943 Prisoner in Capua, 165 officers. First Red Cross parcel. Share with Dougie. Lecture by Padre. ‘Boat…

Duke, Douglas (Wally)

…window and the route also passed a row of three-storey houses. Once ensconced at Capua PG66 an interesting feature to relieve the boredom was the visibility of Mount Vesuvius with…

Steven, Anthony (Tony)

…Italy on the same day Stayed one night in a tobacco factory at Lecce. Left by train for Capua on the afternoon 19th [digital page 2] Arrived at Capua on…

Harris, George

…that our new abode would be better. We arrived at Capua station and proceeded to fill up the cattle trucks which were waiting for us there. Soon, we were on…

Harris, Fred

Summary of Fred Harris Fred Harris joined the Royal Engineers as a boy apprentice at age 14. He was captured near Benghazi and eventually ended up at the Bologna PoW…

Thursfield, P.S

Summary P.S.Thursfield was sent to India as an artillery officer and then transferred to Western Desert and captured near Tobruk. He was flown from Benghazi to Capua Campo 66 and…