- Title
- Two to two thousand: captured by a nominal roll of 2nd AIF POWs in Italy
- Creator
- Kittel, Katrina
- Relation
- Sabreteche Vol. 56, Issue 3, p. 14-21
- Relation
- https://www.mhsa.org.au/publications/
- Publisher
- Military Historical Society of Australia
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- It started with a list. In 2012 a fellow researcher, Bill Rudd, sent me a copy of the British War Office (WO) lists of WW2 prisoners of war in Italy. Bill had begun constructing a nominal roll of Australian Imperial Force prisoners of war (AIF POWs); I was an enthusiastic recruit, but a rookie in researching such a large POW cohort. My 2011 starting point had concerned only two Australian prisoners in Italy, my father and his mate. Bill, ex-VX39694, brought that number to three. I enlisted in Bill's campaign, and awaited further orders. Would this objective be met? Surely it would a straightforward mission, to compile a nominal roll from the official War Office list with reference to a number of other sources in our arsenal?
- Subject
- Australia; Australian army; Australian Imperial Force (1940-1947); prisoners of war; social conditions; attitudes; World War 2; World War II; military history; modern history
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1409836
- Identifier
- uon:36070
- Identifier
- ISSN:0048-8933
- Language
- eng
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