Hi, today I have been given a similar to my Dad’s. The son we are looking for is from the Suffolk area, the Italian POW was at camp 85 Suffolk.

I was hoping the same, it’s nice to think maybe someone is looking for my dad too.
I’ve since found out Normanhurst Court where camp 145 was has been raised to the ground and is a caravan site.

I’ve since found a camp number but, sadly still not getting us anywhere.
He was in Normanhurst camp 145. I’m still hopeful that someone somewhere has a missing link.

Hi, does anybody have an Italian prisoner of war in their family tree? He would have been held in Robertsbridge, East Sussex, England in the run up to 1946. We have no name to go on, he was born in either southern Italy or Sicily.
Any help would be gratefully received.
Many thanks.

Hi have you tried Ancestry.com we done my Dads dna through them & you can look through the southern Italian links they find. It separates it into areas but not as defined as a local area.
Turns out our family rumour of a pow and our nan were true lol

Thank you, I will look into it

Hi gaspaol,
I think the details I put have you a little confused. My Grandmother was English, it just so happens she had an Italian sounding name. So the name on my fathers birth certificate is her husbands not my fathers actual father.
Do you know if there's a way of getting a copy of POWs from ...

We don't have a name to go on, I'm trying to find a list with work places on so I can narrow the field

Sadly the info I got back has nothing of great use Does anyone know if you can search pow records in Italy? Would they give information of where they were held?
Thanks again.

Thank you both for your information.
I didn't get much luck looking for Sussex files, I have to wait until Thursday to see if I have better luck with the National Archives.
If I get some information back I will post it No doubt I'll be back on here asking for help
Many thanks again!

Hi all,

We have recently found out that a family rumor of my Dad being the son of an Italian POW is true! Surprising what a DNA Genealogy test can uncover.

Sadly we have very little to go on, we know he was held in the Robertsbridge area of East Sussex & that he helped work on a farm in the area ...