Awards MiDs Dvrs. Smith & Roberts, RASC (Escape & Evaders, Italy 1944)

brithm · Feb 8, 2023

Awards Mentioned in Despatches
172272 Dvr. Leonard Buebin Smith, 129 Company, RASC
215374 Dvr. Alfred Edward Frederick Roberts, 67 Company, 1st Armoured Brigade

SMITH and ROBERTs were taken prisoner at TOBRUK on 21st June 1942 and were released from MARSCIANO (Camp 115) on 11th September 1943. SMITH went to SAN PIETRO and after waiting two months for the Allied advance continued towards SULMONA.

Recaptured on 13th March 1944, he was sent to SULMONA Camp; here he met ROBERTS who had spent months at SAN DONATO before being caught as he attempted to cross the lines.

Transferred first to FARA NEL SABINA and then to LATERINA, both men were entrained on 8th June 1944. SMITH had succeeded in concealing a hoe; with this they broke open one end of the cattle truck and jumped from the moving train near DOLCE. Making their way South they met an American unit at TRAVALLE on 6th September 1944.
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WO 373/64/566

WO 373/64/567

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