PG 49
Fontanellato

This shows a field behind the main building with 6 sentry boxes. ON the right there are stores and quarters and a convent on the left.
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​Sketch of PG 49 by Richard Carver   (​by kind permission of Tom Carver : Short Books )


​ This camp for 500 Allied officers and 100 other ranks was based at an Orphanage near Parma. On 9th September 1943, after the Italian armistice,  600 men marched out with the connivance of the Italian commandant and guards an hour before the Germans arrived .Unfortunately some got left behind .

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More information  about these camps can be discovered  through these links

http://www.emiliapublishing.com/beyond-the-wire.php

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/37/a6182237.shtml

http://www.msmtrust.org.uk/news/celebrations-in-fontanellato/

http://www.pennilesspress.co.uk/annexe/dan_billany.htm

Karen Bonatti (see emailbenson.eml )


Names: (please send names to powsitaly@Mail.com)
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Frank Adams
Dan Billany
Nigel Knight Bruce
​Richard Carver
William John Frank (Jack) Clarke
John Philip Gelly also these links:  Preface   Biography   Escape Route
Arthur Dennis Hammond  (see also17,66)
Horace William Robert Mitchell  
Edward Mumford
Stuart Hood
Archibald Douglas Hubbard
Carol Mather
​Humphrey Turner
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Colonel Hugo Mainwaring
Colonel de Burgh
Lt col Richard Wheeler
Reginald Phillips
​John langrishe