Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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Capt. Gilbert Andrew Smith

British Army 4th Btn, C Squadron Royal Tank Regiment

from:Gravesend

My father, Gilbert Smith was a POW in PG21 at Chieti, he escaped from the hospital. He reached Rome where he remained until the Allies relieved the city.

He is mentioned in a couple of books, one by Dennis Rendell and another about a fellow escapee who lived with an Italian couple in Rome in a cupboard. They did not let him out of the apartment until the Alliies arrived. I would love to trace the titles of these two books and any others which mentioned my father.



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