258472 Rfmn. Stanley Cleaver British Army 1st Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps from:London Stanley Cleaver, joined the 1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. Stanley was reported missing on 22nd of November 1941. He was held at Campo 65, then Campo 70 at Monturano, Fermo. He escaped on 10th of September 1943 and was later interviewed in Switzerland.
His responses are recorded in the MI9 reports on escapers and evaders through enemy lines in Italy 1943-1944, held in the National Archives.
My wife and I lived in London in the late 1960s in the same flat as my mother's sister and her husband, Stan Cleaver. In 1969 we went on a camping holiday with Stan and my aunt to Italy, (we knew nothing then of his wartime experiences).
My wife was taken ill in the north of Italy, and this delay prevented us travelling any further south, which is where Stan wanted to go. We found out much later that he wanted to see the POW camps he was held at.
Stan died in 1975, never mentioning anything of his war service to us.
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