PG 146
Mortara Pavia
POW camp (PG 146) was a working camp (hard labour) and was situated in the town of Mortara, in the province of Pavia, Italy (north of Genoa and west of Milan). Many POWs had to work in rice fields. Many POWs (thousands) escaped northwards into the Alps and into Switzerland, after which they later returned to UK.
Posted on behalf of Fabio Baiguera fabiobaiguera@gmail.com:
PG 146 Mortara
I finally came to your website by following different paths and researches, in an attempt to gather information for a historical investigation about a member of my family (brother of my great-grandfather).
According to the testimonies of family members, he was involved in a noble action (so far ignored and there is a risk of being totally lost in time and memory): After the armistice, because of the approach of German troops, this member of my family (it is actually unclear whether he was alone or with the help of anybody else) opened the gates of the forced work camp for prisoners in Mortara (PG146).
In this camp, he used to have a responsibility nomination (he came on purpose for this task from another military base).
He (or they) actually made the escape of prisoners possible. He himself was then forced to flee to Switzerland to escape the Nazis for such action; he was probably denounced by the same brother.
I'm contacting you now because I'm looking for testimony to give value to my historical research.
Have you ever heard anything about the situation I described? Anything similar?
contact: fabiobaiguera@gmail.com
Some more information about PG 146 may be found on these links:
http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/44115-italian-pow-camp-146
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.campifascisti.it/scheda_campo.php%3Fid_campo%3D428&prev=search
http://www.campifascisti.it/scheda_campo.php?id_campo=428
NAMES
(Please email names to powsitaly@lamsdorf.com)
James Blakeney
N. C. Crossman
Edward George Kennell
Roland Smith
Mortara Pavia
POW camp (PG 146) was a working camp (hard labour) and was situated in the town of Mortara, in the province of Pavia, Italy (north of Genoa and west of Milan). Many POWs had to work in rice fields. Many POWs (thousands) escaped northwards into the Alps and into Switzerland, after which they later returned to UK.
Posted on behalf of Fabio Baiguera fabiobaiguera@gmail.com:
PG 146 Mortara
I finally came to your website by following different paths and researches, in an attempt to gather information for a historical investigation about a member of my family (brother of my great-grandfather).
According to the testimonies of family members, he was involved in a noble action (so far ignored and there is a risk of being totally lost in time and memory): After the armistice, because of the approach of German troops, this member of my family (it is actually unclear whether he was alone or with the help of anybody else) opened the gates of the forced work camp for prisoners in Mortara (PG146).
In this camp, he used to have a responsibility nomination (he came on purpose for this task from another military base).
He (or they) actually made the escape of prisoners possible. He himself was then forced to flee to Switzerland to escape the Nazis for such action; he was probably denounced by the same brother.
I'm contacting you now because I'm looking for testimony to give value to my historical research.
Have you ever heard anything about the situation I described? Anything similar?
contact: fabiobaiguera@gmail.com
Some more information about PG 146 may be found on these links:
http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/44115-italian-pow-camp-146
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.campifascisti.it/scheda_campo.php%3Fid_campo%3D428&prev=search
http://www.campifascisti.it/scheda_campo.php?id_campo=428
NAMES
(Please email names to powsitaly@lamsdorf.com)
James Blakeney
N. C. Crossman
Edward George Kennell
Roland Smith
