…2nd Slim was married to(5). That’s the present Viscount Slim, who I believe is very nice. Before Fontanellato We were six months down by Naples in Capua(6) – it was…

Summary George (Toots) Williams (DCLI – Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry) was imprisoned in PG49, Fontanellato. This document recounts both his recollections as well as diary extracts written at the…

…week. Chapter 3. Taken to Naples and to Capua PG 66. G.S. with Magee put in with French + welcomed to an orderly society – compared to British Officers huts….

Summary Ronald Dean had been captured many times as a prisoner of war. Dean was to find himself across Italy and Germany as both a prisoner and an escaped prisoner….

…We got taken to Naples and then quite a short trip to a prisoner of war (PoW) camp which was more or less a transit camp, at Capua. Not a…

…meal consisting of a mixture of rice and beans! After disembarkation at Bari they were transported by train to a camp at Capua, which is inland north of Naples. The…

…surgical conditions were terrible – no anaesthetics, and Allied bombing had made things worse. He had then been moved to PG 66 at Capua, north of Naples. Major Gussy Tatham,…

…to Capua, transferred to Rezzanelo, and then to Fontanellato POW Camp. When Italy surrenders in September 1943, there is a mass breakout from Fontanellato. Seven of his regiment escape and…