Search Results for: bologna

Lanyon, Pat

…the train about two miles from the station, take a tram across Bologna, and pick up the Florence train on the other side of the city. [Digital page 14 column…

de Burgh, Hugo

Summary of Hugo de Burgh Hugo de Burgh was a Lieutenant-Colonel, a PoW and the SBO [Senior British Officer] in Camp 49 Fontanellato. After WW2 he was Head of the…

Hill, Armie

…with Morwenna. I purchased a Mitchelin map of France from the ship’s shop: this would do for the journey as far as Bologna and, if I could replace the maps…

Spooner, Pat

Summary Captain Pat Spooner escaped from PG 19 Bologna together with Captain Jimmie Fergusson. Making their way South by train and foot, they teamed up with partisans who wanted to…

Cowton, FWJ

…At the time you were where? stuck in Bologna? JC: I was in Bologna on the 8th – I got out of Bologna on…. I went up into the roof…

Bowder, Bill

…be possible we thought to ask for help, as we were under the impression that the Republic was neutral. It was while we were in the neighbourhood of Bologna that…

Cummins, Ronald Loftus (Part 2: 1943)

…a letter from Germany. So many of them are turning up there including Betty Clarke’s brother-in-law, the one who sent an ordinary wire from Bologna, you remember. They all ask…

Perry, Sam

…the back of the Camp at Bologna as the Germans came in the front gates. Soon rounded up and put on a train he wangled his way off the train…

Churchill, Gerald

Summary After the Italian surrender in 1943, many British POWs left the camps to try and get back to their lines. Amongst these was Gerard Churchill who, in a concise,…

Kyrle Pope, Michael

Summary of Michael Kyrle Pope Michael Kyrle Pope was captured after his submarine, Oswald, was struck in 1940. He was taken to hospital at Taranto then sent to an island…