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EDGECUMBE MAN'S EXPERIENCE
TWO YEARS A PRISONER
Ptc John Henry Barr who is now staying with his sister. Airs .A. Teasdale. of Edgecumbe. has returned home after e.vperiencing two years of detention in Italy as a prisoner of Avar. He was captured at Sidi Rczegh in. November, during the period of bitter lighting which characterised the. second Libyan advance.. Transferred to Italy lie spent five months, in a P.O.W. camp near Genoa, and was then appointed, to a military hospital where he was employed attending to the wounded. Thi.s was the Lucca Hospital which is well known to many of our wounded boys who became prisoners and were transferred, to Italy. His repatriation was negotiated fiom a neutral country ami he had the experience of journeying across France and Spain to finally embark at Lisbon, Portugal, -where the. exchange of prisoners toolc place. When in England he went to his birth-place DufTield, in Yorkshire, and revisited his parents and renewed. old friendships after an absence of fifteen years, hi the Dominion. lie returned home with the Forestry Unit after spending six months in the New Zealand Convalescent House at Warbrick.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 23, 12 November 1943, Page 5
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