PG 49
Fontanellato

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, all 600 men marched out with the connivance of the Italian commandant and guards an hour before the Germans arrived

Links for more information:

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


Names: (please send names to powsitaly@lamsdorf.com)

Dan Billany
Nigel Knight Bruce
William John Frank (Jack) Clarke
John Philip Gelly also these links:  Preface   Biography   Escape Route
Edward Mumford
Stuart Hood