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POW Camp PG21 was located at Chieti
My uncle, David Reay, was a prisoner of war at Chieti POW camp in 1943. He died a few years ago but I still have fond memories of a gentle man of Honour. He rarely spoke of his "War", but after imbibing too much, usually during the Christmas period, he would sometimes recount some of his experiences. I think this was his way of giving Homage to those he knew but did not return, as with most that went through this traumatic time, he could not come to terms with the injustice of those that died and those who lived, and therefore had great dificulty in talking about the subject. I had always known that he had personal mementos of the time, and after his death I was determined to recue them from the dustbin of history as so much has gone before. Now to the specifics of Chieti 1943, in a presumably Red Cross supplied booklet marked "Christmas 1942" he has made reference to various people that he made contact with in "Chieti" these are as follows:-
Drvr. Bertram Webster 980785 R.H. 17 Alexander Tce. Nr. Darwin Lancashire
Drv. Percy Entwhistle 192014 R.A.S.C. 286 Blackburn Road Egeston Nr. Bolton Lancashire
Drvr. G. Shearer Thompsons Buildings Sheepwash Choppington
L/Cpl H. Eve C/O Mrs. Burwood 38 Armagh Road Old Ford Bow London E3
L/Cpl F. Cornwall 80 Forest Gate Road Forest Gate E7
Sgt. J. Davidson 1 Vicarfield Street Glasgow S.W.1
Gnr. W. Ormiston 412 Armstrong Road Benwell
D. R. (Despatch Rider?) J. Gore 6 Brabazon Street Poplar London E14
Dvr. H. Adamson 64 4th Row Ashington
D.E.F. wades 151 Shefield Street Kenilworth Johannesburg (1st S.A. Irish Rgmt.)
S. Field 37 Upper Grange Street Cape Town South Africa
L.M. Benediks C/O Messrs. English and Wright 4 Culham High Street London EC3
M Maclennan 25 Merara Mansions Kerk Street Johannisburg South Africa
W. E. Twrigg 198 Royal Mint Blgs. Mint Street Stepney London E1
Lt. H. C. Mounsey 15 Fulwood Park Aigsbursth Liverpool 17 James Wshil Lt RA "Inglewood" North Avenue South Shields Co. Durham
These people obviously meant something to my uncle, but I cannot say more. In the same booklet my uncle recounts his forced march from Southern Italy to Poland where he was liberated by the Russian Army.
Dave Reay
List of Prisoners
- Dvr. H. Adamson
- L.M. Benediks
- Ronald Edwin Buxton Read his story
- Douglas Caldwell.
- Captain Robert Roderick Charter. No.5 Battery, 2nd Anti-Aircraft Brigade, South African Union Defence Force. Read his story
- L/Cpl F. Cornwall
- Sgt. J. Davidson
- Sgt Ian Henry Duncan. RASC-ACC Read his story
- Drv. Percy Entwhistle R.A.S.C.
- L/Cpl H. Eve
- S. Field
- D. R. J. Gore
- M Maclennan
- Lt. H. C. Mounsey
- Gnr. W. Ormiston
- David Reay Read his story
- Drvr. G. Shearer
- W. E. Twrigg
- D.E.F. Wades. 1st S.A. Irish Rgmt.
- Lt. James Washil. RA
- Drvr. Bertram Webster R.H.
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