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Nathanson, Leslie – Escape To Internment Part 1

…Padula Boys. by Nevil Lloyd. We’re the Padula boys of Camp 35, All officers if not gents. In dimly lit wings, we sit on our things, Drinking milk that’s been…

Hurst Brown, Alan

…39 Freedom – But Short Lived! 47 From Padula to The Third Reich 54 From Austria to Czechoslovakia 65 Czechoslovakia’s Sandhurst 68 Brunswick 73 The Last Few Days 82 Postscript…

Kyrle Pope, Michael

…Italians, when they found that even the Australians dug tunnels. [Digital page 30: headed ‘Journey to Padula’] The move down to Padula was really very well organised and for this…

Harris, Fred

…we have been trying to meet up. When the Allies landed at Salerno for the invasion of the Italian peninsula – it is not very far from Padula – we…

Nathanson, Leslie – Escape To Internment Part 2

Summary Leslie Nathanson was in Camp 19 at Bologna, when on 8th September 1943, it was announced that the Italians had signed an armistice agreement. The following day the Germans…

Muir, John

…backlash a year later and the same evening was captured. From Tarhuna to Naples and then Razzanello, Sulmona, Padula and then the strongest PW Camp of all Gavi for Muir…

Caplat, Moran – Dinghies to Divas

…month before a longer stay in Campo 35 in Padula. This was a huge, rather well-appointed monastery which housed around 500 officers. Caplat describes the everyday life in camp, the…

Perry, Sam

…version in plain text. [Digital page 1] [handwritten notes at head of page : PERRY, SAM. S.V.Perry File Perry] MEMORIES OF PADULA. Through Jim Bourn many memories of the Prison…

Burnford, Alfred (John)

…of Royal Marine commandos during the siege of Tobruk, in Libya, and taken to Padula PoW camp in northern Italy. At the Armistice in September 1943, Burnford was herded with…

Wagner, Mick

…warm enough at night. The fuel supply, which was supplied by the young pine trees that we felled and carried, seemed inexhaustible. It would have been bitterly cold at Padula…