Recaptured After 4½ Months’ Freedom
After being free for four and a-half months, and travelling hundreds of miles from a prisoner of war camp in the north of Italy to within sound of the Allied guns, Private Tom Jack, formerly of the Public Trust Office staff, whose wife resides in Whangarei, was betrayed by Fascist Italians to the Germans, and is now in a prisoner of war camp in Germany. In a letter to his wife, the first communication for some months. Pte. Jack, who was taken prisoner in Libya, tells of his trip through Italy, after the fall of that country, and of his having been so close to rejoining the New Zealand Division, only to be retaken.
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Northern Advocate, 7 June 1944, Page 4
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119Recaptured After 4½ Months’ Freedom Northern Advocate, 7 June 1944, Page 4
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