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- Morris (2378758)
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- Tunisia
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- Army
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- A4453328
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- 14 July 2005
Army Pay Office communication to the parents of Charles Morris 23rd April 1943
On 1st March 1943 I was captured by the Germans and transferred to the Italians, who brought me by boat to Naples. On board the old coal ship, we were given only one biscuit a day. From Naples we were marched to Capua. After three months we were transferred to another camp at Ancona on the Adriatic. Our diet in Italy was very basic - macaroni one day, rice the next! Our next move was by cattle truck (24 to a truck, with a bucket in the middle) over a period of roughly four days to Camp 4B, south of Leipzig. After two to three weeks we were on the move again - to Meissen. This was a small camp, with only twenty four prisoners. We were employed constructing prefabs; my own role was to make the iron reinforcements. We received two "meals" a day, but one of our main sources of nourishment was Red Cross food parcels.
At the beginning of May 1945 we were walked by night to the Leipzig area again - a distance of some 70 miles. Eventually the American Armoured Division liberated us and were flown back home in Dakotas.
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