Paice, Alan
Summary After the Italian surrender, three young British POWs (Charlie Paice, Snowy Whitehead and Harold ‘Tommy’ Tomkins) escape from Camp 53, heading for the Allied line. Vowing to keep together,…
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Braithwaite, George
…Bottone, Schiavi D’Abruzzo, Chieti, Italy College Arc “Istonio”, Istonio, Chieti, Italy [Digital page 11] Dear Sir, Having just read and noting that they were The Crucible of War, recent Edit…
Kyrle Pope, Michael
…following year. A month or two earlier Stewart had successfully travelled into Switzerland from Chieti, but his qualifications had been unusual. Early in January the Italians tightened all their regulations…
Woods, John
Summary John Woods, 2nd Lt in the Durham Light Infantry was captured in Gazala Line in North Africa just before the fall of Tobruk in June 1942. His account begins…
Browne, N
Summary N. Browne (Royal Tank Regiment) was a prisoner in Chieti and Fontanellato. This brief extract describing his adventures after the Armistice was written in a letter to Keith Killby….
Barshall, Peter
Summary Peter Barshall was captured in Algiers and passed through two camps (the second being Chieti) before arriving at PG49 Fontanellato. He escaped from here when the armistice was signed….
Swan, William (Bill)
…Benghazi, Lecce, Bari and Chieti. He was joined at Modena by Peter Campbell. Bill and Peter escaped with 3 others and headed into the Apennines. Arriving at Ranoccio, they were…
Simpson, Charles – Chapter 8-21
Summary of Charles Simpson, chapters 8-21 This is the second part of the highly detailed and descriptive account of the escape of Charles Simpson from PG 49 Fontanellato and his…
Walker-Brown, Bobby
…spent time in Lucca prison hospital. He arrived at PG 21 Chieti in the autumn of 1942. This account begins with a description (pp. 1–2) of digging a tunnel [no….
Cochrane, Tom O’G
Summary Tom O’G Cochrane gives a detailed and graphic account of his escape from under the noses of the Germans’ on 8th September 1943 from his camp in Bologna with…