Prigione di Guerra (Campo) P.G. 102 Prisoner of War Camp

If you can provide any additional information, please add it here.

Those known to have been held in or employed at
Prigione di Guerra (Campo) P.G. 102 Prisoner of War Camp
during the Second World War 1939-1945.

Evans George Edward. Rfmn.
Pursey George William. Rflmn.

The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List

Records from Prigione di Guerra (Campo) P.G. 102 Prisoner of War Camp other sources.

The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website.

Announcements

The Wartime Memories Project has been running for 24 years. If you would like to support us, a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting and admin or this site will vanish from the web.

18th April 2024 - Please note we currently have a huge backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 263925 your information is still in the queue, please do not resubmit, we are working through them as quickly as possible.
Looking for help with Family History Research? Please read our Family History FAQ's
The free to access section of The Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers and funded by donations from our visitors. If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web.
If you enjoy this site
please consider making a donation.

Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the War? Our Library contains an ever growing number diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text.

We are now on Facebook. Like this page to receive our updates.

If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page.

Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to WW2. We would like to obtain digital copies of any documents or photographs relating to WW2 you may have at home.
If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. World War 1 One ww1 wwII second 1939 1945 battalion
Did you know? We also have a section on The Great War. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations.

Want to know more about Prigione di Guerra (Campo) P.G. 102 Prisoner of War Camp?

There are:-1 items tagged Prigione di Guerra (Campo) P.G. 102 Prisoner of War Camp available in our Library

These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War.

Rfmn. George Edward "Tubby" Evans Rifle Brigade

My father George Evans served with the Rifle Brigade. He was taken prisoner in Libya 1st of April 1941 and was always known as 'Tubby' among his fellow POWs. I have the Army form sent to my mother listing him as being missing in action and then a further report dated 11th of May 1941 advising that he was a prisoner of war.
He was held in several camps in Italy, finally escaping from Sulmona Camp 78 in 1943, walking the mountain passes and being assisted by locals to reach the allied captured region, this following the Italian surrender of 1943. Together with a fellow camp prisoner, a chap called Harry Short they made their escape and headed for the mountain passes. They were ahead of the coming winter snow but were continually pursued and avoided the German Army patrols who were then very active within the Abruzzi and Aquila regions. Each POW had a price on his head and any locals found helping them risked serious consequences. Even so, these local people helped many of them assisting them by hiding them and generally helping them on their perilous journey. Many of the boys from the camp I believe were re-captured and sent on into German POW camps including my dad's great friends Wally Green & Joe Onslow. I have a Kriegegefangenenpost card written by Joe to my dad from the German POW camp 9th August 1944 describing how he feels being incarcerated again and in far worse conditions. We later learned that if he and others had 'Laid off the Vino, they might be home with Tubby now'. I still have the Italian map he had at that time (very thin & worn) and a wooden rosary & beads given to him en-route by one of his helpers. He rarely spoke of this journey but spoke more about his time in the camps making lots of friends who lasted his lifetime all now sadly departed. I have a photograph taken in the camp and the names of the men are listed on the back. I believe Sulmona was the 3rd camp that my dad was contained within. It was considered I believe, to be a 'bad boys camp' and anyone who had made repeated attempts at escaping was also finally moved here because of its geographical location being regarded as escape-proof.
My dad had made 2 previous attempts at escaping from camps one I know was Foggia and I have a Christmas greetings message sent to my mother via the Vatican post listing his then camp number PG 102. I also have the War Ministry form sent to my mother dated 11th of November 1943 stating that he had reached Southern Italy and was safe within allied hands and would be sent back to the UK as soon as suitable transport could be arranged. He later came home via Liverpool on a troop ship with American Army personnel. I believe he and Harry had walked into American Army lines following their long trek homeward bound.
My dad died in 1991. Oh so many questions I now wish that I had asked him. Now they have all gone. He made so many lasting friendships from that camp and these I remember throughout my childhood years so many of his friends visiting our home and the Christmas cards always being sent from so many. Harry (Lucky) Paxton, Richard (Chalky) White, Stan Evans. Jock Devlin and another came to visit us after the war on a motorbike, few cars around in those immediate post-war days and several others whose names escape me, I was only a child myself. My dad had left for the North Africa campaign when I was a matter of months old and returned home when I was 4 years old. On the back of the photograph among his papers taken at the Sulmona camp 'A Souvenir Of Pow Days Italy 1942/43' among those listed and names that I can decipher: Stan Blakey RASC, A.E.Judd RB (he was in my dad's company and taken POW same time), Musgrove RA and Hinchcliffe RE.

Sylvia Evans

Add to this record.

Rflmn. George William Pursey 9th Btn. Rifle Brigade

George Pursey was reported missing on 7th of April 1941 and then reported to be in Italian POW Camp no 102 in Aquila, Italy. At some stage he was transferred to Altengrebow Stalag 11a. I know he was in Paris in November 1945 and eventually died in Richmond, Surrey in 1991. I am George Pursey's daughter born a few months after he was captured, I was adopted in January 1944 and would love to learn more about my father and his life both during and after the war. His POW number was 142570.

Margaret Hill

Add to this record.

Rfmn. George Edward "Tubby" Evans Rifle Brigade

My father George Evans served with the Rifle Brigade. He was taken prisoner in Libya 1st of April 1941 and was always known as 'Tubby' among his fellow POWs. I have the Army form sent to my mother listing him as being missing in action and then a further report dated 11th of May 1941 advising that he was a prisoner of war.
He was held in several camps in Italy, finally escaping from Sulmona Camp 78 in 1943, walking the mountain passes and being assisted by locals to reach the allied captured region, this following the Italian surrender of 1943. Together with a fellow camp prisoner, a chap called Harry Short they made their escape and headed for the mountain passes. They were ahead of the coming winter snow but were continually pursued and avoided the German Army patrols who were then very active within the Abruzzi and Aquila regions. Each POW had a price on his head and any locals found helping them risked serious consequences. Even so, these local people helped many of them assisting them by hiding them and generally helping them on their perilous journey. Many of the boys from the camp I believe were re-captured and sent on into German POW camps including my dad's great friends Wally Green & Joe Onslow. I have a Kriegegefangenenpost card written by Joe to my dad from the German POW camp 9th August 1944 describing how he feels being incarcerated again and in far worse conditions. We later learned that if he and others had 'Laid off the Vino, they might be home with Tubby now'. I still have the Italian map he had at that time (very thin & worn) and a wooden rosary & beads given to him en-route by one of his helpers. He rarely spoke of this journey but spoke more about his time in the camps making lots of friends who lasted his lifetime all now sadly departed. I have a photograph taken in the camp and the names of the men are listed on the back. I believe Sulmona was the 3rd camp that my dad was contained within. It was considered I believe, to be a 'bad boys camp' and anyone who had made repeated attempts at escaping was also finally moved here because of its geographical location being regarded as escape-proof.
My dad had made 2 previous attempts at escaping from camps one I know was Foggia and I have a Christmas greetings message sent to my mother via the Vatican post listing his then camp number PG 102. I also have the War Ministry form sent to my mother dated 11th of November 1943 stating that he had reached Southern Italy and was safe within allied hands and would be sent back to the UK as soon as suitable transport could be arranged. He later came home via Liverpool on a troop ship with American Army personnel. I believe he and Harry had walked into American Army lines following their long trek homeward bound.
My dad died in 1991. Oh so many questions I now wish that I had asked him. Now they have all gone. He made so many lasting friendships from that camp and these I remember throughout my childhood years so many of his friends visiting our home and the Christmas cards always being sent from so many. Harry (Lucky) Paxton, Richard (Chalky) White, Stan Evans. Jock Devlin and another came to visit us after the war on a motorbike, few cars around in those immediate post-war days and several others whose names escape me, I was only a child myself. My dad had left for the North Africa campaign when I was a matter of months old and returned home when I was 4 years old. On the back of the photograph among his papers taken at the Sulmona camp 'A Souvenir Of Pow Days Italy 1942/43' among those listed and names that I can decipher: Stan Blakey RASC, A.E.Judd RB (he was in my dad's company and taken POW same time), Musgrove RA and Hinchcliffe RE.

Sylvia Evans

Rflmn. George William Pursey 9th Btn. Rifle Brigade

George Pursey was reported missing on 7th of April 1941 and then reported to be in Italian POW Camp no 102 in Aquila, Italy. At some stage he was transferred to Altengrebow Stalag 11a. I know he was in Paris in November 1945 and eventually died in Richmond, Surrey in 1991. I am George Pursey's daughter born a few months after he was captured, I was adopted in January 1944 and would love to learn more about my father and his life both during and after the war. His POW number was 142570.

Margaret Hill

Recomended Reading.

Available at discounted prices.

The Wartime Memories Project
- Prigione di Guerra (Campo) P.G. 102 Prisoner of War Camp during the Second World War -

Prigione di Guerra (Campo) P.G. 102 Prisoner of War Camp

Those known to have been held in or employed at
Prigione di Guerra (Campo) P.G. 102 Prisoner of War Camp
during the Second World War 1939-1945.

The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website.

Announcements

Want to know more about Prigione di Guerra (Campo) P.G. 102 Prisoner of War Camp?

Recomended Reading.

Links

The Wartime Memories Project - Prigione di Guerra (Campo) P.G. 102 Prisoner of War Camp during the Second World War -

Prigione di Guerra (Campo) P.G. 102 Prisoner of War Camp

Those known to have been held in or employed at Prigione di Guerra (Campo) P.G. 102 Prisoner of War Campduring the Second World War 1939-1945.

The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website.

Announcements

Want to know more about Prigione di Guerra (Campo) P.G. 102 Prisoner of War Camp?

Recomended Reading.

Links

The Wartime Memories Project
- Prigione di Guerra (Campo) P.G. 102 Prisoner of War Camp during the Second World War -

Those known to have been held in or employed at
Prigione di Guerra (Campo) P.G. 102 Prisoner of War Camp
during the Second World War 1939-1945.