I'm Ramsay Addison's grandson. A manuscript of his experiences in WWII was recently discovered--after being feared lost for many years--and after reading it I felt compelled to find out more. 2nd Lieutenant Ramsay Addison and Captain Mick Mentis, after jumping from a POW train headed from PG47 in Modena north to Austria/Germany, somewhere near Mantua, escaped to Switzerland via a route that took them between lakes Garda and Iseo, then north to Breno, through a tiny village called Laveno and on via Aprica. They walked 380km in 12 days. Unlike many of the escape stories I've read, this northern route was much less traveled (probably because the last leg was treacherous alpine climbing, this barely days before the winter snows started) but also much less patrolled. From my father: "Ramsay was at Mersa Matruh commanding half a dozen 25-pound howitzers. He was a second Lieutenant later mentioned in Dispatches. He was caught by Italians at Sidi Rezegh, probably in the incident already described where some got away. Ramsay spoke very little about the Western Desert campaign." Emlyn Addison
