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Prigione di Guerra (Campo) P.G. 53 Prisoner of War Camp
Campo PG 53 was situated at Sfozacosta, it was one of three in the Marche province near to the city of Macerata.
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Those known to have been held in or employed at
Prigione di Guerra (Campo) P.G. 53 Prisoner of War Camp
during the Second World War 1939-1945.
- Abel Cecil George. Dvr.
- Ambler Arthur William. L/Sgt.
- Attrill Cedric George Henry. Cpl.
- Bailey Peter. Gnr.
- Benson John Darby. L/Cpl.
- Bostock VN. L/Cpl.
- Brown Maurice Weston. Pte.
- Cooper William Edward Peter. Sgt.
- Didcock George. Driver
- Downing Daniel. Pte.
- Edmonds Sydney Walter. 2nd Lt.
- Emmett William Roy. Dvr.
- Faben Frederick. Gnr.
- Farr R M.
- Foster Frederick John. Gnr.
- Gardiner James William. L/Bmdr. (d.20th Aug 1944)
- Gardiner James William. L/Bmbdr. (d.20th August 1944)
- Gorman Terry. Pte.
- Grasby John. CSM.
- Hamilton Peter Sidney. L/Cpl.
- Hines Gordon Leslie. Cpl.
- Hoggett JJ.
- Hymer Roger Lee. Pte
- King James. Spr.
- Lee Cyril Henry John. Pte.
- Loam Francis Joseph. Pte.
- Manning WJ.
- Masterman Leslie. Pte.
- Maxwell William Edward. Gnr.
- Merton Arnold. Pte.
- Miller Frederick William. Pte.
- Miller Nathaniel.
- Pickering Geoffrey. Cpl.
- Randell MM.. Philip Oland Edwin. Sgt.
- Roberts Joseph Terence. Pte.
- Sims MT.
- Smith WEJ.
- Sore William Henry. Pte. (d.25th December 1943)
- Spikings T.
- Tague John Francis. Pte
- Tester C.
- Triggs NJ.
- Webster Edward. Drv.
- Wibberley John Stewart. Bdr.
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
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There are:2 items tagged Prigione di Guerra (Campo) P.G. 53 Prisoner of War Camp available in our Library
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NJ Triggs 7th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment
NJ Triggs served with the 7th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
Dan
C Tester 4th Sqd (Sharpshooters) County Of London Yeomanry
C Tester served with the 4th Sqd (Sharpshooters) County Of London Yeomanry British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
Dan
T Spikings 3rd Btn Royal Tank Regiment
T Spikings served with the 3rd Btn Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
Dan
WEJ Smith 5th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment
WEJ Smith served with the 5th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
Dan
MT Sims 2nd Sqd Gloucestershire Hussars
MT Sims served with the 2nd Sqd Gloucestershire Hussars British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
Dan
WJ Manning 3rd Sqd. County Of London Yeomanry
WJ Manning served with the 3rd Sqd. County Of London Yeomanry British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
Dan
JJ Hoggett 1st Btn. Royal Tank Regiment
JJ Hoggett served with the 1st Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
Dan
R M Farr 7th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment
R Farr served with the 7th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
Dan
L/Cpl. VN Bostock 8th Kings Royal Irish Hussars
L/Cpl.VN Bostock served with the 8th Kings Royal Irish Hussars British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
Dan
L/Cpl. John Darby Benson 4th Queens Own Hussars
L/Cpl.John Benson served with the 4th Queens Own Hussars British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
Dan
Nathaniel "Frank" Miller 1st Tower Hamlets Rifles
My father was a POW at Lamsdorf from 1943 until the Death March. He was employed at Arbeitskommando E288, a sugar beet factory at Bauerwitz. (now Baborow, Poland) He was captured 3 April 1941 at Agedabia, Libya. He was interned at Sulmona, Italy until 13 July 1943 and then transferred to Camp CC.53 P.M. 3300, Italy. Then on 19 July 1943 he was transferred to Stalag IVB, Germany. On 10 Aug 1943 he was then transferred to Stalag VIIIB, Lamsdorf. At the end of the Death March, he was liberated by the Americans and flown back to England.Alan Miller
L/Sgt. Arthur William Ambler Royal Horse Artillery
I know that my father, Arthur Ambler was posted to Egypt from India at the outbreak of the war and took part in the early actions against the Italian forces in a unit attached to the Australian forces. He subsequently took part in the general retreat when then the Africa Korps arrived and forced the British back to Egypt. He was captured in 1941 when an attempted ambush of German troops was itself ambushed, and sent to Italy to the Italian POW camp PG53. When the Italians surrendered he was taken by the Germans to Stalag 357 at Thorn in Poland. Late in 1944 he was moved with part of 357 to Stalag XIB and from there to Stalag XIA where he was repatriated by the Americans after the Russian troops moved through the area.He never told me anything about his experiences in either Italy or Germany until just before his death in 2000, but it was obvious from his withdrawn state that he suffered a serious level of psychological trauma from his experiences - and I do know that he expressed a bitter resentment of Churchill's order that they did not attempt to escape from the camps in Italy after the capitulation.
A J Ambler
Drv. Edward Webster Royal Signals
Edward Webster was captured by the Italians in Mechili, Libya on 8th of April 1941. He was first interned at Capua POW camp (date unknown), then at the Gruppignano POW Camp on 24th of July 1941, and then transferred to C.C.N. 53 P.M. 3300 Camp on 2nd of September 1943. Finally, he was transferred to Stalag VIIB in Germany.Kathryn Burford
Pte. Maurice Weston Brown 903 Company Royal Army Service Corps
My father Maurice Brown served in WW2 with 903rd Company, RASC having joined the Royal West Kents early in 1940. He was sent out to France in May 1940 as they went to reinforce the attempt to stop German forces invading France through Belgium. He narrowly evaded capture around Rouen and was then evacuated near Cherbourg having abandoned all their equipment.After re-equipping back in the UK, mostly around Dorking and Salisbury, they were sent out via Cape Town and Cairo to reinforce 1st Armoured Division. in the Western Desert in November 1941. They arrived in time to be involved with Operation Crusader. When Rommel counter-attacked in May 1942 my father's company withdrew to Tobruk where he was captured on 20th of June 1942.
After a time in camps behind the lines he was sent to Italy, eventually to CC53 near Macerata above Ancona. Here they were not required to work, but when Italy surrendered they had about 48 hours to escape, but were advised not to attempt this by the Army. German paratroops then took over the camp and my father was then transported by train over the Brenner Pass into Eastern Germany, firstly to a holding camp and then to a working-party on the Deutsche Reichsbahn based at Klostermansfeld, South of Leipzig near the Harz mountains. Here between October 1943 and April 1945 he was forced to work maintaining lines, initially light work but later repairing bomb damage as far away as Leipzig. He experienced frequent near-misses from air-raids and saw much suffering. He was eventually liberated by Patton's forces pushing eastwards over the delineated post-war frontier and flown back via Brussels.
My father maintained a diary through nearly all of his time in the Army, at great risk to himself whilst a POW. This diary although edited later for personal reasons, contains numerous references to events in 903 Coy. and the personnel with whom he served. He tried to have it published later but not being an officer, and containing mostly routine details about food parcels etc. in camp, they told him it was not eventful enough. Sadly on his death in September 1991 most of his possessions were disposed of, and I only have one of the draft copies he circulated.
Robert Brown
Pte. Frederick William Miller 5th Btn. Sherwood Foresters
Frederick Miller enlisted in the army on 18th of April 1940. He was posted to Infantry Training Centres in Rochdale, Galashiels and Dereham, prior to embarcation to North Africa on 23 December 1942. Disembarked in North Africa (Tunisia?) on 3rd of January 1943.He was with 2/5 Btn Sherwood Foresters (re-designated as 5th Btn on 28th of January 1943), who were over-run by a German Parachute Engineer Battalion, under the command of Major Rudolf Witzig, in the 1st Battle of Sedjenane in Tunisia on Tuesday 2 March 1943, which is when he was reported missing, believed to be a POW. Believed he was acting as a medic, caring for the many wounded soldiers from the battle. Next of kin not informed until 26th of March 1943. Confirmed as a POW in Campo 53 on 25th/26th of April 1943, he was transferred to Stalag IVG (Oschatz or its Work Camp at Klinga) in Germany on 30th December 1943 as POW 227653. Next of kin informed 11th of January 1944. He worked on an Arbeitskommando (Work Group) - one of 76 Work Groups based on Stalag IVG in the Grimma area, 50 miles WNW of Dresden.
He was transferred from Stalag IVG to Stalag IVA (Hohnstein-Ernstthal - Airfield at Dresden-Klotsche) on 16th of February 1944. Apparently, the main camp was liberated by the advancing Russians on 24th of April 1945. His Army record lists liberation on 7th of May 1945 - the day before VE Day.
Fred Miller
NJ Triggs 7th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment
NJ Triggs served with the 7th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
Dan
C Tester 4th Sqd (Sharpshooters) County Of London Yeomanry
C Tester served with the 4th Sqd (Sharpshooters) County Of London Yeomanry British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
Dan
T Spikings 3rd Btn Royal Tank Regiment
T Spikings served with the 3rd Btn Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
Dan
WEJ Smith 5th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment
WEJ Smith served with the 5th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
Dan
MT Sims 2nd Sqd Gloucestershire Hussars
MT Sims served with the 2nd Sqd Gloucestershire Hussars British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
Dan
WJ Manning 3rd Sqd. County Of London Yeomanry
WJ Manning served with the 3rd Sqd. County Of London Yeomanry British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
Dan
JJ Hoggett 1st Btn. Royal Tank Regiment
JJ Hoggett served with the 1st Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
Dan
R M Farr 7th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment
R Farr served with the 7th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
Dan
L/Cpl. VN Bostock 8th Kings Royal Irish Hussars
L/Cpl.VN Bostock served with the 8th Kings Royal Irish Hussars British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
Dan
L/Cpl. John Darby Benson 4th Queens Own Hussars
L/Cpl.John Benson served with the 4th Queens Own Hussars British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch.Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
Dan
Nathaniel "Frank" Miller 1st Tower Hamlets Rifles
My father was a POW at Lamsdorf from 1943 until the Death March. He was employed at Arbeitskommando E288, a sugar beet factory at Bauerwitz. (now Baborow, Poland) He was captured 3 April 1941 at Agedabia, Libya. He was interned at Sulmona, Italy until 13 July 1943 and then transferred to Camp CC.53 P.M. 3300, Italy. Then on 19 July 1943 he was transferred to Stalag IVB, Germany. On 10 Aug 1943 he was then transferred to Stalag VIIIB, Lamsdorf. At the end of the Death March, he was liberated by the Americans and flown back to England.Alan Miller
L/Sgt. Arthur William Ambler Royal Horse Artillery
I know that my father, Arthur Ambler was posted to Egypt from India at the outbreak of the war and took part in the early actions against the Italian forces in a unit attached to the Australian forces. He subsequently took part in the general retreat when then the Africa Korps arrived and forced the British back to Egypt. He was captured in 1941 when an attempted ambush of German troops was itself ambushed, and sent to Italy to the Italian POW camp PG53. When the Italians surrendered he was taken by the Germans to Stalag 357 at Thorn in Poland. Late in 1944 he was moved with part of 357 to Stalag XIB and from there to Stalag XIA where he was repatriated by the Americans after the Russian troops moved through the area.He never told me anything about his experiences in either Italy or Germany until just before his death in 2000, but it was obvious from his withdrawn state that he suffered a serious level of psychological trauma from his experiences - and I do know that he expressed a bitter resentment of Churchill's order that they did not attempt to escape from the camps in Italy after the capitulation.
A J Ambler
Drv. Edward Webster Royal Signals
Edward Webster was captured by the Italians in Mechili, Libya on 8th of April 1941. He was first interned at Capua POW camp (date unknown), then at the Gruppignano POW Camp on 24th of July 1941, and then transferred to C.C.N. 53 P.M. 3300 Camp on 2nd of September 1943. Finally, he was transferred to Stalag VIIB in Germany.Kathryn Burford
Pte. Maurice Weston Brown 903 Company Royal Army Service Corps
My father Maurice Brown served in WW2 with 903rd Company, RASC having joined the Royal West Kents early in 1940. He was sent out to France in May 1940 as they went to reinforce the attempt to stop German forces invading France through Belgium. He narrowly evaded capture around Rouen and was then evacuated near Cherbourg having abandoned all their equipment.After re-equipping back in the UK, mostly around Dorking and Salisbury, they were sent out via Cape Town and Cairo to reinforce 1st Armoured Division. in the Western Desert in November 1941. They arrived in time to be involved with Operation Crusader. When Rommel counter-attacked in May 1942 my father's company withdrew to Tobruk where he was captured on 20th of June 1942.
After a time in camps behind the lines he was sent to Italy, eventually to CC53 near Macerata above Ancona. Here they were not required to work, but when Italy surrendered they had about 48 hours to escape, but were advised not to attempt this by the Army. German paratroops then took over the camp and my father was then transported by train over the Brenner Pass into Eastern Germany, firstly to a holding camp and then to a working-party on the Deutsche Reichsbahn based at Klostermansfeld, South of Leipzig near the Harz mountains. Here between October 1943 and April 1945 he was forced to work maintaining lines, initially light work but later repairing bomb damage as far away as Leipzig. He experienced frequent near-misses from air-raids and saw much suffering. He was eventually liberated by Patton's forces pushing eastwards over the delineated post-war frontier and flown back via Brussels.
My father maintained a diary through nearly all of his time in the Army, at great risk to himself whilst a POW. This diary although edited later for personal reasons, contains numerous references to events in 903 Coy. and the personnel with whom he served. He tried to have it published later but not being an officer, and containing mostly routine details about food parcels etc. in camp, they told him it was not eventful enough. Sadly on his death in September 1991 most of his possessions were disposed of, and I only have one of the draft copies he circulated.
Robert Brown
Pte. Frederick William Miller 5th Btn. Sherwood Foresters
Frederick Miller enlisted in the army on 18th of April 1940. He was posted to Infantry Training Centres in Rochdale, Galashiels and Dereham, prior to embarcation to North Africa on 23 December 1942. Disembarked in North Africa (Tunisia?) on 3rd of January 1943.He was with 2/5 Btn Sherwood Foresters (re-designated as 5th Btn on 28th of January 1943), who were over-run by a German Parachute Engineer Battalion, under the command of Major Rudolf Witzig, in the 1st Battle of Sedjenane in Tunisia on Tuesday 2 March 1943, which is when he was reported missing, believed to be a POW. Believed he was acting as a medic, caring for the many wounded soldiers from the battle. Next of kin not informed until 26th of March 1943. Confirmed as a POW in Campo 53 on 25th/26th of April 1943, he was transferred to Stalag IVG (Oschatz or its Work Camp at Klinga) in Germany on 30th December 1943 as POW 227653. Next of kin informed 11th of January 1944. He worked on an Arbeitskommando (Work Group) - one of 76 Work Groups based on Stalag IVG in the Grimma area, 50 miles WNW of Dresden.
He was transferred from Stalag IVG to Stalag IVA (Hohnstein-Ernstthal - Airfield at Dresden-Klotsche) on 16th of February 1944. Apparently, the main camp was liberated by the advancing Russians on 24th of April 1945. His Army record lists liberation on 7th of May 1945 - the day before VE Day.
Fred Miller
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