Everyone was very calm today and things proceeded as normal. There was a Service on the field in which we thanked God for Victory and Peace. This was the first…
Read more8 September 1943
Today I was feeling slightly more depressed than usual. Food parcels in the store were none existent and the threat of having to spend another cold, wet and hungry winter…
Read more19 Nov [1942]
Left Capua en route for permanent camp destination unknown, at 8pm fortunate to get a 3rd class German coach. Passed through Rome 8am following day. Arrived at URBISALGIA BONSERVIZI [see…
Read more4 Nov [1942]
Left Benevento en route for Capua [see map] 2hrs journey towards Naples. Again into tents. This is the largest camp in Italy. Red Cross parcels 1 per man every 7…
Read more3rd Aug [1942]
Left Tuturano today en route for camp at unknown destination. The following morning arrived at Benevento [see map] after passing through a large wheat growing plain and then through the…
Read more26 July [1942]
Arrived at Taranto [southern Italy] [see map] where Italian fleet were in harbour. Disembarked at 0200 hrs and arrived at Tuturano [see map] camp near Brindisi [see map] at 1200.…
Read more[26 June 1942 – 29 June 1942]
After six days of this lounging and scrounging on a large tract of desert, we left Tobruk for Derna [Libyan coast] by lorry & trailer, fifty men to each. It…
Read more20 June 1942
LOCATION Advance H.Q. 201st Guards Brigade, Fort Pilistrino, TOBRUK [Libya, North Africa] It’s 0500 hours and stand-to. The morning is one of a million in the desert; cold and still,…
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