…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…

…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…

…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’….

…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…

…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,…

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…

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…