| Notes | WW2 Leicester Reg.,Story in the paper 19.4.1945.A week before he returned to England he had been in a German prison camp.Captured in Tunisia,March 1943. Moved to sulmona Italy.Italy armistice waiting for the British army.Germans were moving all prisoners Alec ecaped.Alec had to return for he was only dressed in shorts and thin shirt.it was freezing.But that night he took a pair of trousers and 2 red cross parcels and escaped through a hole in the fence 5 months he was in the mountains until he was captured by a loan german skier. |
