Post by Marco Soggetto on Feb 17, 2013 4:31:00 GMT -5
To the kind attention of the RASC Association,
Good morning. I am writing here on the kind suggestion of a Rootschat.com member, while engaged in a difficult historical search.
Briefly, my work concerns some Allied POWs (mostly British, Australians and New Zealanders) who tried to reach the Swiss borders through the Italian Western Alps, during the last war and generally after the Armistice.
I am therefore trying to find all the available information on these men and their war experience, above all by contacting the still existing members of their families. Unfortunately the current British law on privacy does not allow to access the military archives without the written permission of a next-of-kin. And of course I can't receive this permission without finding their family.
I am trying to contact two British veterans who spent some time with partisan formations on the Alps and I hope you may kindly provide me some help or suggestion.
The soldier I am talking about was sergeant William David Lewis from London, taken prisoner at Tobruk, together with private Victor Torrig.
According to the only info I have (from file WO392/21 of the National Archives), he was a RASC driver, and his military number was 188777. He had been held at Camp PG 73 at Fossoli, near Carpi, Modena, Italy.
He then remained with the partisans in the Aosta Valley together with Torrig until September, 1944.
May I kindly ask your help, please?
For whatever further information, please don't hesitate to write me at my gmail.com address, starting with marco.soggetto@.
I also have two rare pictures of them, but I don't know how to upload them here.
Kindest regards,
Marco
Good morning. I am writing here on the kind suggestion of a Rootschat.com member, while engaged in a difficult historical search.
Briefly, my work concerns some Allied POWs (mostly British, Australians and New Zealanders) who tried to reach the Swiss borders through the Italian Western Alps, during the last war and generally after the Armistice.
I am therefore trying to find all the available information on these men and their war experience, above all by contacting the still existing members of their families. Unfortunately the current British law on privacy does not allow to access the military archives without the written permission of a next-of-kin. And of course I can't receive this permission without finding their family.
I am trying to contact two British veterans who spent some time with partisan formations on the Alps and I hope you may kindly provide me some help or suggestion.
The soldier I am talking about was sergeant William David Lewis from London, taken prisoner at Tobruk, together with private Victor Torrig.
According to the only info I have (from file WO392/21 of the National Archives), he was a RASC driver, and his military number was 188777. He had been held at Camp PG 73 at Fossoli, near Carpi, Modena, Italy.
He then remained with the partisans in the Aosta Valley together with Torrig until September, 1944.
May I kindly ask your help, please?
For whatever further information, please don't hesitate to write me at my gmail.com address, starting with marco.soggetto@.
I also have two rare pictures of them, but I don't know how to upload them here.
Kindest regards,
Marco