Mumford, Edward Neville (Oral history)

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British officer served as staff officer with Headquarters, 18th Indian Infantry Bde, 10th Indian Infantry Div in North Africa, 6/1942; prisoner of war in Campo PG 21, Chieti and Camp PG 49 Fontanellato di Parma in Italy, 7/1942-9/1943; escaped to Switzerland, 9/1943-8/1944

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REEL 1 Background in India and GB, 1915-1936: family; education; outline of military career. Aspects of period as staff officer with Headquarters, 18th Indian Infantry Bde in North Africa, 1942: duties and role; situation in Knightsbridge Box. Aspects of period as prisoner of war in Libya, 6/1942: capture by Germans; contrast in behaviour of Italian and German captors; character of reception camp; reaction of officers to capture; tendency to blame South Africans for fall of Tobruk; sources of Axis intelligence in desert. Recollections of period as prisoner of war in Campo PG 21, Chieti, Italy, 1942: layout of camp; relations between prisoners of war and guards; role of Cypriot prisoners of war. REEL 2 Continues: Italian removal of prisoner of war 'trouble makers' from camp, summer 1942; use of codes; camp administration; prisoner of war discipline; attitudes towards escape; abortive escape attempts; Red Cross visits; contact with home; physical condition of prisoners of war. Aspects of period as prisoner of war in Campo PG 49, Fontanellato di Parma, Italy, 1942-1943: question of catergorisation as 'trouble-maker'; contrast between camps at Fontanellato di Parma and Chieti; methods of filling time; psychological attitude towards incarceration; collapse of Italy, 9/1943; prisoner of war contingency plans. Recollections of escape from Italy to Switzerland, 9/1943-8/1944: escape from camp, 9/1943. REEL 3 Continues: excessive precautions taken as evader; aid given to evaders by Italian peasants; Italian peasant hostility towards Fascism; route taken; joining Italian Partisans band and discovery of grenade horde; refuge with Royalist family in Florence; move to Venice by train, 1/1944; encounter with German officers in hotel in Venice; return to Florence; escape to Switzerland. REEL 4 Continues: reception by Swiss; character of disinfestation centre; accommodation; pro-Allied sentiments of Swiss; status of escaped prisoenrs of war; problems of looking after escaped Indian prisoners of war; his departure from Switzerland, 8/1944; journey to GB, 8/1944; long term effects of imprisonment; question of institutionalisation in miliary and prisoner of war camps.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1945-1989 (production), Second World War (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Wood, Conrad (Recorder)
Mumford, Edward Neville (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1982
Dimensions: whole: Duration 110, Number Of Items 4
Catalogue number: 6363

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