…but he is hit and a mob ill treats them but a German arrives and takes over. Escapes again from Laterina. Meets Partisans on Pratomagno who, in order to be…

Summary Within a few weeks of arriving in Tunisia as a newly trained recruit, Fred Hirst was captured and sent to a POW Camp in Italy. Fred escaped twice and…

Summary Peter Watson, a British Officer with the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, was captured on 5th June 1942 and taken to a Prisoner of War camp in Fontanellato. After…

Summary Frederick Telford journeyed to the Mareth line via Brazil, Durban and Syria. He was captured almost immediately during combat and was eventually to Livorno (Italy) to Laterina Camp 82….

…[Photograph with caption]: Camp orchestra [Photograph of several servicemen with caption]: Saonara camp 120 [digital page 9] At 7.30 am on the 20th February, 1943, we bid farewell to Laterina,…

…with caption]: Saonara camp 120 [digital page 9] At 7.30 am on the 20th February, 1943, we bid farewell to Laterina, that hell hole of misery, bitterness, hunger and wretched…

…capture on 29 June 1942 before recounting his time as a PoW in Campo 82 at Laterina near Arezzo and at a work camp at Rufina, near Florence. He escaped…

…also joined the group, along with his son and daughter-in-law; Frank had served in the Royal Artillery and was a prisoner in Campo P.G. 82 in Laterina and then in…