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An Escape from Italy by Two Officers of the Grenadier Guards, Captain Mark Bonham Carter and Major T P Butler.
memoir, memoir
Accession Number

NAM.2016-10-23-221-1

Description

Typed copy of a memoir (5pp) written by Captain Mark Bonham Carter and Major T P Butler of their experience escaping from a Prisoner of War Camp in Northern Italy (possibly Bologna) shortly after the Italian Armistice (September 1943), including details of the takeover of the camp by German forces, tunnelling by the prisoners, ad hoc attempts at escape to evade transportation to German POW camps, the creation and execution of a plan to hide by the two officers, conditions for Italian civilians, and the journey across the Apennines to Allied lines. Associated with Grenadier Guards, World War Two (1939-1945). From the Regimental Archive of the Grenadier Guards.

Campaigns

World War Two, POWs Italy (1941-1945), World War Two, Italy (1943-1945)

Associated collection