PoW camps
…PG 19 BOLOGNA (Caserma Funz. ‘Due Madonne’) Officers PG 21 CHIETI Officers PG 23 VESTONE (Brescia) Officers PG 26 CORTEMAGGIORE (Piacenza) Officers PG 27 SAN ROMANO (Pisa) Officers PG 29…
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Langrishe, Phillip John Duppa
Summary Philip John Duppa (“John”) Langrishe, 1917–2010, Lieutenant, 7th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery, at the time he was captured, 1 June 1942, North Africa. He was held at PG 41…
McHattie, George
…escapees from the Germans. He was at that time a young prisoner of war who had escaped from a concentration camp at Bologna. I was a young girl who had…
Clarke, W.J.F
…20 Florence 21 Florence 22 dep from Florence 17:50. Arr Bologna 22:15 23 dep Bologna 03:00, arr Venice 10:00. Mestre 24 night in hotel in Venice 25 Padova 26 Padova…
Harris, George
Summary of George Harris George H. Harris was captured on the 2nd of June 1942 by the German 21st Panzar Division. Written while ‘soldiering in England’ in 1944, George tells…
Armstrong, Henry Denis
Summary Henry Denis Armstrong was transferred from Cyprus to North Africa in March 1942. He was captured in the Western Desert on June 6th 1942 and taken initially to a…
Jones, A. A
…I bury my snaps and letters, just keeping a few. Warning at midnight that G’s coming into village tomorrow. Navigation by CAPT. BARSHALL (HAC), moved West across BOLOGNA – PIACENZA…
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…
Stern, Peter
…north. At Bologna, with 200 others, they jumped the train and came home. One of them has agreed to guide us for the next stage and will take us to…
Strachan, William Hunter (Bill)
Summary of William (Bill) Hunter Strachan A story told in three parts, of Strachan’s (Bill’s) two escape attempts, and of his and Charlie Khun’s encounter with a member of the…