Search Results for: Sulmona

Evans, John

Summary John Evans was a Private in the 5th Hampshire Regiment. His early diary entries relate the inconveniences and longings arising from a sea voyage in cramped quarters and leaving…

Boyd, O T

…12/03/1941 – Letter from John Leeming to Mrs IM Boyd (wife), written from Sulmona 02/05/1943 – Letter from F/L John Leeming to Mrs IM Boyd (wife) 02/03/1944 – Letter from…

Comyn, JA

…The Sulmona camp then contained about fifty officer P.O.Ws, the majority naval. There were Swordfish pilots, casualties of the successful attack on Taranto harbour in November 1940, the crew of…

Hirst, Fred

…just could not make they were shot. On interrogation at Sulmona he was asked to give a good reason why he should not be ‘shot being dressed in civilian clothes’….

Muir, John

…Tarhuna (with I think Col. De Burgh as S.B.O [Senior British Officer] then voyage to Naples and camps Rezzanello, Sulmona [Digital Page 33] Sulmona, Padula and PG5 at Gavi. I…

Flowerdew, Douglas with Bethell, Drew

Summary G.D.H. (Douglas) Flowerdew, a Major in the Royal Artillery (and regular soldier), was captured at Tobruk in 1942. In this self-published memoir from 1988, he describes life in PG…

Research – Published sources & bibliography

…new afterword, Carcanet, Manchester, 1985  Horner, Gordon, For You the War is Over. Privately published (Falcon Press), 1948    Jones, Donald I., Escape from Sulmona. Vantage Press, New York, 1980; also published in Italian, Fugo da Sulmona. Qualevita, Sulmona,…

Flowerdew, Douglas with Bethell, Drew

Summary G.D.H. (Douglas) Flowerdew, a Major in the Royal Artillery (and regular soldier), was captured at Tobruk in 1942. In this self-published memoir from 1988, he describes life in PG…

Bethell, Drew with Flowerdew, Douglas

Summary G.D.H. (Douglas) Flowerdew, a Major in the Royal Artillery (and regular soldier), was captured at Tobruk in 1942. In this self-published memoir from 1988, he describes life in PG…

Hobbs, Daniel (Jack)

…British Officers at present position from Sulmona camp. Heard rumours that we have taken Sulmona and Atessa and also that we have bypassed Vasto. No confirmation of this news yet…