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I was taken prisoner on 1 July 1942 and sent to Italy as a POW, then sent to Stalag 4A and 4B...
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He managed to escape with a group of men and cycled through to Switzerland cycling from monastry to...
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Hazel Rutherford, Belford My husband was a prisoner of war in Japan during the war and he was released a...
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