WORKING IN LONDON
ESCAPED OFFICER’S WIFE JUBILANT AT NEWS ,10 am) LONDON. April 7. Mrs. Georgette Miles, the wife of Brigadier R. Miles, ip working happily’ to-day on Merchant Navy comforts in ' London after receiving confirmation from New Zealand of her husband’s escape from an Italian orison camp with Brigadier J. Largest. . , , Mrs. Miles two days ago received a letter from her husband from the prison camp. He said he was learning carpentry to pass the time. He added: “Our hosts descended on us the oiher day to demand all out jewellery, except watches and wedding rings. We will be given a receipt and the jewellery kept in the Bank of Italy until after the war.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21064, 8 April 1943, Page 3
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