ESCAPE FROM CRETE
MASTERTON SOLDIER REACHES EGYPT. ASSISTANCE FROM GREEKS. After having been taken prisoner of war in Crete, Private A. R. Kenny, son of Mr and Mrs R. Kenny, of Raglan Street, Masterton, has rejoined his battalion in the Middle East. Private Kenny tells something of his adventures in two letters recently received by his parents. He states that he was taken prisoner on Crete on May--21 and that he broke away from camp, with- another man from Lower Hutt, on July 1. After many weeks of hiding from the Germans he managed to reach Egypt. He reported that he was in the best of health. In the prison camp he met Snowy Clarke and Dick Roygard. They were not woundeu: The food in the camp he described as terrible. From the time he and his mate broke out of camp, it took them seven weeks to get off the island. During that time the Greeks looked after them very well and if it had not been for their kindness they would not have got away. . After having seen the way in which the Germans treated the Greeks, they knew what the people in other countries were suffering.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 October 1941, Page 4
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199ESCAPE FROM CRETE Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 October 1941, Page 4
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