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17th August 2018, 02:49 AM
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Can anyone ??
Hi
Just wondering if anyone can assist in the Identification of the Picture shown at this Link
POW's Landing Southampton 1942 - The Photo Gallery
It was one of mine but for the life of me I cannot find it anywhere now!
This info on the Pic is for the Gallery as well as myself.
I know its says POW Landing at Southampton ,but would like more info on it!
I have written to the Southampton Archives,to ask if they can assist and have received one reply thus far ,but not what I am looking for ,the lady however was very kind and sent me another Pic of Similar
I have sent her the actual Pic now as she said she will have a look and see if she can find anything,
So in the meantime I would appreciate any help that may come forward on this elusive Picture
My Thanks in advance to ALL.
Cheers
Senior Site Moderator-Member and Friend of this Website
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17th August 2018, 06:17 AM
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Vernon, as far as I know there were no POW's kept in UK during the war, or so I was told many years ago.
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
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17th August 2018, 06:25 AM
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some stayed here john? jp
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17th August 2018, 08:50 AM
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Do you think that the picture shows British troops landing in Soton, after the fall of Singapore?
Not as POWs, but as troops who were rescued? Clearly it's a happy occasion and a band playing in the left-hand corner as well as the flags.
I think that 1942 was too early in the War for any POWs to be repatriated.
regards
Brenda
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17th August 2018, 09:13 AM
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There were definitely Italian prison of war in 1944, they could be seen in my village in Hampshire at that time, and used to make little trinkets and toys for us kids. They were employed working the land, ky
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17th August 2018, 09:44 AM
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We had a POW Camp near me during the war, There were trusties who were taken out every day to work on the farms they wore brown suits with orange patches on the legs and back, we used to throw stones at them when we saw the lorries going past.
When the GEORGIC was bombed and sunk at Suez in 1941 she had 800 Italian POWs on board, bound for Liverpool, most were killed.
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17th August 2018, 09:53 AM
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Bert Trautman German POW in England who went on to play in goal for Manchester City.
Regards.
Jim.B.
https://www.theguardian.com/football...anchester-city
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17th August 2018, 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by
happy daze john in oz
Vernon, as far as I know there were no POW's kept in UK during the war, or so I was told many years ago.
A description from the book: Churchill's Unexpected Guests: Prisoners of War in Britain in World War II.
Every prisoner of war camp in the UK mapped and listed.
There were hundreds of prisoner of war camps in the UK during the second world war. See where they were and get the data:
What would happen if the UK's prison population suddenly increased by 400,000 people? That's what occurred between 1939 and 1948, when thousands of Germans, Ukranians and others became Britain's prisoners of war, according to a new book.
The camps where the PoWs were imprisoned have largely (but not all) disappeared. At one time hundreds of them were spread across the UK.
The best known was Island Farm in Wales - scene of a 'great escape' in 1945, with some German POWs getting as far as Birmingham and Southampton.
LINK 1: https://www.theguardian.com/news/dat...-camps-uk#data
LINK 2: https://www.theguardian.com/news/dat...f-war-camps-uk
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17th August 2018, 01:54 PM
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I remember before the war, Mr Manfredi, an Italian Ice Cream maker, came round our street with a donkey and two wheel cart, a tub of ice cream and for a penny could buy a cornet or wafer,
When Italy joined the war on the German side he vanished , all Italians were rounded up and shipped to the Isle of Man and interned there.
After the war he was released and started making ice cream again. and became the biggest maker around here.
I don't know what happened to his donkey, or if it was interned with him on the island.
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17th August 2018, 06:30 PM
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As a six, seven year old used to hang around the German POW road and ditch repair crews. they would make us small trinkets and toys, they used to share their food and tea with us young'uns, a change to what we were getting at home.
regards, stan.
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