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Whilst in Camp 66 at Capua there were a number of Sudanese with their Sgt.Major and each morning they could be seen thoroughly cleaning their teeth, using only a finger and salt. Owing to their religion they would not eat anything from a pig, so we used to swap an item of food with them in exchange for a tin of bacon etc. from their Red Cross parcel. The Sgt. Major told us that at the end of the war he would not be returning to Britain, but would go back with his men to the Sudan.
Someone told us that he did not think the war would last longer than 6 months longer because Germany was now very poor and that in Germany either one had to work or starve.
In the evening we used to throw certain items over the barbed wire fence to the Italian sentries on the outside in exchange for so many small loaves of bread,the number of which varied from evening to evening. These were carried inside of their pantaloons. Spare the thought! Occasionally an item would get caught up in the electric cables, in which case it would be necessary to beat a hasty retreat!
On one occasion a very big explosion was to be heard in the direction of Naples and strange to relate, it was not long before we were to be moved from that camp to our second official camp up North. It was goodbye to Vesuvius. By train we journeyed through Rome by night in wagons which were to accommodate 40 men (or 12 horses)in June, 1943. We finally arrived at Camp 82 in more picturesque country than at Camp 66, which was called Laterina, in Tuscany.
Said to have been situated some 25 miles S.W. of Arezzo.

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