WELL AND HAPPY
ESCAPED BRIGADIERS (P.A.) INVERCARGILL, Sunday. The first personal news Mrs. J. Hargest has received from her husband, Brigadier Hargest, D.5.0., M C since his escape from an Italian prisoner-of-war camp was contained in two letters which she received on Friday. One of the letters was from Berne and the other from Lucerne, Switzerland. Brigadier Hargest and Brigadier R. Miles, DS O M.C., who escaped with him, are well and happy and have been overwhelmed by the hospitality extended them in Switzerland, state the letters. The story of how they escaped from the prisoner-of-war camp and successfully eluded recapture on the journey to the Swiss frontier and their crossing it to freedom will have to wait until after the war for publication.
' The two officers were in the same prisoner-of-war camp near Florence when they escaped to Switzerland early this year. They were captured in Libya in November and December, 1941, witnm a few days of each other.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 139, 14 June 1943, Page 5
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