P.G. 60
Colle di Compito, Lucca 

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from: http://en.capannori-terraditoscana.org/index.php/territory/archeology.html
Near Lucca, in the municipality of Capannori, we find an ex concentration camp, P.G N.60, opened in the September of 1943, in the fraction of Colle di Compito. The history of this concentration camp began in the area called "Il Pollino" that belonged to the Ravano family (ex Gherardesca) and, at the beginning of 1940, was used as a prison camp for english enemies. This camp rises at the end of an area called "Padule", under the village of Castelvecchio and next to the railway station of Colle, that links Lucca to Pontedera and connected Lucca to Piaggio until 1958. After 1943, month of September, in the camp were imprisoned both civils and political prisoners, jews and foreign enemies. They were crowded together into narrow shacks and in total promiscuity. To worsen the situation there were also the climate and the position of the camp: the proximity to marshes, the hot temperatures, the damp and the swarms of mosquitos.
Here the conditions were bad :overcrowded tents ,a very meagre water supply for 4000 men , no red cross parcels ,great heat and mosquitoes . Eventually the camp was condemned by the Red Cross and dysentery was rife

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Names    ……………..       Click on the names for their details 
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Frank Henry Bennett(see also 70 ,62 ,30)
Harry Arthur Burrows
Leonard Cliff
Colin Gleavegleavetemp.odt
William Nichol
​Arthur Scott (see also PG 53 )