PG 52
Chiavari

Weakley, W A, fl 1942. Camp 52, for prisoners of war, Chiavari, Italy. Ref: DA-00376. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22876238

     Above: Camp 52, for prisoners of war, Chiavari, Italy, 1942. Photograph taken by W A Weakley.
Note on back of file print reads "...All beds and gear out for a search. Note where bed slats have been taken off to provide fuel for brewing tea."

More information about this camp can be discovered through these links:

https://camp59survivors.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/vaccarezza-family-p-g-52-escapees-protected/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/50/a4235050.shtml

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C173844

http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/camp-52-chiavari.3177/

http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/PG52/PicPG_52_Christmas1.htm

http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/WH2Pris-fig-WH2Pri10b.html

http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/pow/powcamp.php?pid=3487


Names
(Please email names to powsitaly@mail.com)
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George Edward Cardus
Derek Cotton
Thomas Stanley Davison
Stanley Green
John Christian William Handford
Herbert Edgar Hymer Hayes
​Ronald Philip Myburgh (see also 51,62)
Raymond James Nixon
Alan Ward see also PG202
​Victor Kensett Styles                 (see also PG 66 )