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World War Two / Re: British POWS hidden by Italians in Lucca Province 1943-44
« on: Sunday 09 October 16 16:32 BST (UK)  »
Ruskie
Thank you. I 'll do that.
I'll also put these names out as new posts in the general section per country
ScouseBoy: I only have the list of POWS at Campo 49, Fontenellato as of  Sept 1943  when the camp was evacuated  and unfortunately no prefix or suffix is given to Capt Moyle's Army number.

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World War Two / Re: British POWS hidden by Italians in Lucca Province 1943-44
« on: Sunday 09 October 16 11:02 BST (UK)  »
Thanks to everyone.
To Ruskie : My apologies I did not learn the rules  of the site sufficiently well. Dr Angelini did want to make contact with descendants for the purposes of inviting them to the annual commemorations in Lucca province. I will drop this line of enquiry.  She does also want to collect more info on them for the purposes of an archive project.

Re the question as to books published in the UK : yes - the main source book is Roger Absalom's A Strange Alliance , pub 1991, an academic study of the impact of the ex-POWS on their host communities of mountain villages in the Appenines and Abruzzi. POW by Adrian Gilbert has a chapter on Italians sheltering escapers. There are numerous personal memoirs.
If anyone wants other book titles or website links in English or Italian, please contact me directly.

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World War Two / Re: Italy 1943-44 Lucca/Garfagnana Info on escaped british POW Hugh Dorrien
« on: Saturday 08 October 16 19:24 BST (UK)  »
Dear Shaun J
thank you very much for your help.


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World War Two / Re: British POWS hidden by Italians in Lucca Province 1943-44
« on: Saturday 08 October 16 19:20 BST (UK)  »
Dear Ruskie
I am confused by your message. None of the people I listed will still be alive. How does one search for links to people now dead if one is not allowed to mention their names ?
 
Dr Angelini is researching the stories of escaped prisoners of war hidden by  Italians. She is doing this as part of her work for the Institute.

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World War Two / Italy 1943-44 Lucca/Garfagnana Info on escaped british POW Hugh Dorrien
« on: Saturday 08 October 16 12:20 BST (UK)  »
I am looking for information on or contacts to the family of Lt Huh J. Dorrien ( or Dorrian) of the Durham Light Infantry, who was a POW in Camp 49, fontanellato, in Parma province in 1943 and escaped with my father, Frank Adams (3rd Royal Tank regt) on 9th Sept 1943.
They spent a long period in villages ( for example Magliano and Ponteccio)  around Monte Tondo ( La Garfagnana, Lucca province) and were guided across the lines by a partisan in August or early sept 1944.

Hugh Dorrien 's Army No. was 198253. His battalion of the Durham Light Infantry was converted to tanks in 1942.

My father died in 1969. It is possible that Hugh Dorrien died earlier than that.

Thanks

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World War Two / British POWS hidden by Italians in Lucca Province 1943-44
« on: Saturday 08 October 16 12:10 BST (UK)  »
ON behalf of Dr Silvia Angelini of the Institute of the History of the Resistance in Lucca, italy I am looking for contacts to the families of the following POWs who were hidden by Signor Modesto Damiani in the village of Antelmini and Lucignana in 1943-44. I give their last known home address in 1944.

Lt Peter Marshall Army No 187914 Royal Artillery  Newcastle under Lyme Staffs
James Daveney Army No. 2987472 ( unit unknown) Glasgow
Ralph Driver  South African Defence Force No.79012  Benoni S.A.
Ray Harris Australian Expeditionary Force  Shenton Park S.W.Australia
Corporal M.A.Knight Australian EF , West Brunswick Melbourne
R.C.Smith,  Australian EF, Bairnsdale Victoria
Lt E.T.H Reith Forgan  Cheshire Regt No.140058 , Wervin Hall Chester.
Capt A.W.Jamieson  Royal Artillery No.134462  Edinburgh
Capt A.D.Moyle  RASC No.108225  Maresfield Sussex
Lt John M.P.Walker EC1283 Indian Army   lloyds Bank calcutta india
Idwin Eeren  Aberdare, Glamorgan wales
George Ashley  Master Built Radio Cabinet Works Johannesburg South Africa
Bert Hitchin  Ketley Wellington Shropshire

Many thanks




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