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Object description
British trooper served with Raiding Support Regt in Yugoslavia, Albania and Greece, 1943-1944; prisoner of war in Salonika Prison, Greece and Stalag VII-A, Moosburg and Stalag XI-A, Madgeburg, Germany, 1944-1945
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REEL 1 Aspects of training with Raiding Support Regt in Palestine, 1943: background to volunteering for special duties, 1943; pattern of training in Middle East; parachute training; boat training; unarmed combat training; weapons training; training in handling mules; fraternisation with Palestine Police Force personnel; discipline in unit; transfer to Italy, late 1943; insignia worn. Recollections of operations as trooper with Raiding Support Regt in Yugoslavia, Albania and Greece, 1943-1944: transfer to Vis Island, Yugoslavia; reasons for sending unit to Vis, Island, Yugoslavia.
REEL 2 Continues: opinion of Yugoslavian Partisans; mission to attack German communications station in Albania; impressions of Albanian Partisans; evacuation from Albania; mixing with civilians around Mediterranean; flight to Greece; use of condoms as currency in Greece; maintaining British Army standards; cross country trek; nature of co-operation with Greek civilians; derailment of German train.
REEL 3 Continues: objective of mission to Greece; British officer serving with guerillas; special sabotage devices; character of Greek guerillas; aims and objectives of Greek guerillas. Aspects of period as prisoner of war in Salonika Prison, Greece, 1944: capture by Germans; initial treatment by Germans; German threat to shoot prisoners of war; imprisonment at Salonika; interrogation by Germans.
REEL 4 Continues: sight of beaten Greek civilians; screams of prisoners during confinement; making contact with Swedish Red Cross whilst in prison; physical condition on release from prison; period in Italian prisoner of war camp; extraction of tooth in Italian prisoner of war camp; rations in Italian prisoner of war camp; removal to Germany. Aspects of period as prisoner of war in Stalag VII-A, Moosburg and Stalag XI-A, Madgeburg in Germany, 1944-1945: experiences of civilian hostility towards prisoners of war; liberation by American troops; relations with guards; helping inmates of civilian female Displaced Persons camp. Aspects of operations as trooper with Raiding Support Regt and prisoner of war in Greece, 1944: location of prison in Salonika; size of prison.
REEL 5 Continues: nature of German interrogation techniques; question of German treatment of guerillas; beheading of German prisoners by Greek guerillas; sight of village burnt down by Germans.