3AZ, 212
9th Army, 18
9th Australian Division, 43
10 Men and a Girl, 147
19th Battalion, 111
21st Panzer Division, 71
’88mm anti-tank gun, 60
A la Carte, 194
Aachen, 229, 232-233, 235-236, 238, 242
Abbasiya Canal, 41
Acroma, 81
Afrika Corps, 84
Ajdabiya, 85
Alam Nayil, 53
Alamein Line – Thompsons Hill, 74
Alamein Line, 37, 40-69
Alamein, 45
Al Marj – see Barce
Aleppo, 18-19
Alexandria, 92
Allatique, 28
Allenby’s Road, 39
Amiriya, 42, 44-45, 51-52
Antonescu, Ion, 219
Anzac Day, 133, 197, 271
Ariete Division, 47, 49
Baalbek, 20, 32-33
Bab Al Hawha, 19, 24, 37
Badoglio, Pietro, 142, 146
Baggush, 12, 79, 116
Barce, 86-87, 89
Bardia, 81
Bari, 95-97, 98, 99, 101-102
Beersheba, 39
Bein B 19 194
Beirut, 30
Bekaa Valley, 17, 30
Benghazi, 89-90, 91, 92-93
Berg el Arat, 45
Bir Hachim, 27
Bo, Lieutenant, 22
Bostons, 49
Bowring, Walter Armiger, 9
Bradshaw, Bill, 141
Bradshaw, Bob, 112, 116
Brindisi, 95
Brown, Doré (nee Watson), 208
BTR Ltd, 172, 280
Bye Bye Blues, 232
Cairo, 42
Campo 52, Chiavari, 120, 122-123
Campo 57, Gruppignano, 97, 137
Campo PG 47, Modena, 107-151, 108, 132
Campo PG 75, Bari, 96-103
Cassino 192, 201, 216
Chemnitz, 157-8
Cherbourg, 204-205, 208
Christmas, 116-117, 177-178, 243, 245
Church, Winston, 153, 171, 190, 198, 218, 276
Cinderella, 116, 118, 176
Cortot, Alfred 197
Coward, Noel – Hay Fever, 230
Coward, Noel – Present Laughter, 184
Coward, Noel – Private Lives, 205
Crusaders, 53, 67
Culbertson, Ely, 135
Daba, 75-78, 83
Dachau, 275
Das Reich, 262-3
Dead Sea, 35
Dear Departed, The 139
‘death zones’, 234
Deir el Shein – see Gurpat Ridge
Derna, 84-87
Desert Group, 219
Djedeide Fortress, 11
Don McK, 102
Dönitz, Karl, 277
Draper, John, 174
Dresden, 262, 263
Dresden, 262-263
Duke of Gloucester, 34
Eichstaett, OflagVII-B, 174, 266
E W Pidgeon & Co. Ltd, 8, 280
Escapes, 202, 234, 266
Essen, 199
Evans, Joan, 238, 279
Evers-Swindell, Garry, 271
Female roles, 188, 211, 213, 220, 233
Fisher, Peter, 7
Flower, Chris, 141
Flower, Hugh, 141
Flower, Jeff, 141
Flower, Mack, 141
Forgloss, 11, 34
Fortress A (aka Kaponga and Qattara Box), 45, 50-51, 54
Frankfurt, 198
French without Tears, 139, 144
Freyberg, General Bernard, 216
Garawla, 79
Garibaldi Club, 9
Gazala, 81
George, Cliff, 184
Gerrard, Doug, 184
Gestapo, 161, 164
Ghurpat Ridge, 48
Gilbert & Sullivan – Iolanthe, 248, 256
Gilbert & Sullivan – Mikado, The, 209, 211, 213, 216-7, 218-219, 221, 234, 240
Gilbert, Adrian, 211
Goebbels, Joseph, 171, 216, 232, 254
Goering, Hermann, 214, 272
Gorlitz, 157-8
Graziani, Rudolf, 79, 80, 81
Greig, Len, 159
Grouse in June, 193
Haifa, 14
Hama, 36
Hay Fever – see Coward, Noel
Harem (Harim) 19, 23
Hargest, Brigadier James, 218
Heilbronn, 199, 209, 217, 223-224, 228, 234, 239-242, 249-50, 252-255, 257-259, 261-264, 268
‘Heilbronn Harry’, 229-230
Heliograph, 31
Himmler, Heinrich, 214, 231, 272-273
Hitler, Adolf, 196, 212-14, 216, 272, 275
Hof, 158
Home and Beauty, 203
Homs, 36
Honey, 53
Horus, 38
How Did You Get Here?, 188
Idlib, 19, 24, 27
In the Soup – see Wodehouse
In the Zone, 139
Iolanthe – see Gilbert & Sullivan
Iraq, 34
Italy, war in, 203, 205, 212, 219
Joyce, William, 175
Junkers Ju 52s, 83
Kabrit, 11, 12
Kaponga Box – see Fortress A
Karlsruhe, 224, 262
Karlsruhe, bombing of, 189, 198, 240
Keitel, Wilhelm Bodewin Gustav, 214
Kember, John, 159
Kesselring, Gen
KLIM, 268
Knightsbridge, 80
Krivoy Rog, 189
Küstrin, 260, 270
Lorient, 217
Lamsdorf – Stalag VIII-B, 159-160, 251, 267-26 8, 272, 275
Landshut, 276, 277
Lavatories, 97, 113
Lebanons, Lebanon ranges, 16, 29
Lecce, 94-95
Liebig, Dr Bernd, 281
Lightnings, 197, 233
Limburg, 226, 268
Lowe, Joan (nee Selby), 102, 115, 144, 191, 202, 231, 248, 281
Lydda, 14
Maadi, 52
Macfadden, Bernarr, 98
Mannheim, 198, 223-225, 262-263
Mark III tanks, 66
Mark IV tanks, 73, 81
Mason, Malcolm, 141
Maude, Angus, 213
McLernon, Colin, 174, 280-281
McLernon, Sam, 280
Mersa Matruh 43, 78-79
Messerschmitt 110s, 49-50, 53
Mikado, The – see Gilbert & Sullivan
Minqar Qaim, 47, 52
Mitchells, 264
Modena township, 109-110, 143, 146, 153
Modena POW camp – see Campo PG 47, Modena
Montgomery, General Bernard, 264
Moosburg POW camp – see Stalag VIIA Moosburg
Moosburg, Stalag VIIB, 246, 268-271
Mosquito, 259
Mt Carmel, 14
Munich, 199, 211-212, 214, 216, 220, 274-275
Mussolini, Benito, 8, 86, 90, 142, 146, 275
Neckarsulm, 259, 261-2
Nelson Moates, 9
Nelson, Edie, 125, 129, 202, 231
Nelson, Horatio Dunville, 9
Nelson, Jack, 9, 141,
Nelson, Peter, 141
Nelson, Tony, 141
Nelson, Violet, 9
Netanya, 38
Nicholl, Grace, 207
Nikopol 186
Nile River, 41
O’Brien, Geraldine, 281
Offenburg, Stalag V-C, 151, 160-1
Oflag VA, Weinsberg, 162-266, 167, 170, 176, 178, 185, 245
On the Spot, 139
Orontes, River, 29, 36
Osborne, Bob, 141
Osborne, George, 141
Osborne, Joyce, 7, 102, 128, 191
Osborne, Oliver 191, 230
Outcrop, 9, 116
Outward Bound, 182
Pal – see Thomas, Alleen
Palace of the Virgins, 24
Patria, 15
Paterson, Pat 191, 212
Patton, General George Smith Jr, 271-272, 275-276
Pidgeon, Jeff, 170, 281
Poppi, 112
POW News, 100, 103, 139
Present Laughter – see Coward, Noel
Private Lives – see Coward, Noel
Protecting Power, 127, 167, 184, 202
Puss in Boots, 172, 176
Qattara Box – see Fortress A
Qattara Depression, 45, 47, 77
Qnaye, 19
Rayak, 17, 38
Revellers, The 200, 233
Riley, Alice, 102
Riley, Dewhurst, 159
Riley, Harry, 242
Robertson, George Edmund, 9
Robertson, Ian, 34, 141, 202, 207-208, 217
Robertson, Joyce (later Osborne), 9, 102, 128
Robertson, Roland Thomas, 9
Robin Hood, 126-128, 137
Rommel, Erwin, 49, 109
Roosevelt, Theodore, 218, 270
Ruweisat Ridge, 47, 50, 52, 57
Saarbrucken, 229-230, 234
Sadler, Joe, 141
Sadler, Ken, 141
Sagan, 267-8
Sam Browne belt, 273
Savoia Machetti, 92-93
Schmehl, Susanne, 281
Schweinfurt, 166, 190, 198, 212, 225, 189
Scottish Show (Hame) 235, 237, 238-239
Sea of Galilee, 38
Seaforth Highlanders, 9
Second Front, 180, 204-6
Seymour, Charles, 141, 282
Seymour, Conway, 280
Seymour, Frank, 141, 282
Sidi Barrani, 80, 82
Siegfried Line, 225, 227-228, 230, 252, 256
Signal, 233
Siwa Oasis, 79
Small Bachelor, The – see Wodehouse
Sollum, 80-81
Spandau, 59, 66, 68, 76
Spears Mission, 22
Square Pigs, 139
SS Strathaird, 7
Stalag VIIA Moosburg, 265-279, 267, 269-270, 274
Stalin, Joseph (Joe), 223, 231-232, 236, 238, 251, 254-255, 262, 264
Steele, Bertha, 207
Mice & Men, 125, 139
Stephens, Monty, 174
Stetten, 262
Strasbourg, 151, 172, 176 and elsewhere
Stuttgart, 111, 189, 190, 191, 198, 216, 225, 227, 230, 233, 240, 241
Suez Canal, 39, 41
Syria, 15
Taming of the Shrew, 240
Tanta, 43
Tedder, Air Chief Vice Marshal Arthur, 279
Ten Minute Alibi, 139
Thomas, Alleen (aka Pal), 121, 134-135, 138, 144, 149-50, 183, 197-199, 202-204, 206, 220, 231, 234, 240, 280
Thomas, Eric, 141
Tiberias, 38
Tirpitz, 236
Tobruk, 13, 37, 43, 80, 82-83, 84-85
Trentham Camp, 7, 228
Truman, Harry, 273
Tulkarm, 38
Tunnels, tunnelling, 195-197, 200, 201, 234
Upham, Charles, 194-195, 197, 231, 281
Vickers, 58
Victor Emmanuel, King, 142, 168
Vitebsk, 190, 197
Volkssturm, 265
Wadi Natrum, 52
Waiata Maori (Maori show) 199, 203-205, 209, 211, 213, 214-215
Ward, Bessie, 192, 199, 206, 231, 234, 235, 248
Warsaw, 233, 238
Watson, Doré (later Brown), 139
Watson, Elfie, 183, 208, 220, 235, 248
Wavell, General Archibald, 45, 78, 80-81
Wedding Bells across the Veldt, 192
Wehrmacht, 254
Weinsberg POW camp – see Oflag VA, Weinsberg
Westcott, 279
Wheeler, J E A (Doc), 65, 267, 271
Widdowson, Rita, 125
Willock, John, 141
Willock, Lois (later Bowie), 280-281
Willock, Pat, 141, 238, 242, 281, 282
Willock, Peter, 141, 281
Wire, The 78-79
Wodehouse, P G – In the Soup, 114
Wodehouse, P G – The Small Bachelor, 201
Words and Music, 139, 147, 148, 186, 194
‘Wrecker of the Neckar’, 229
Zagazig, 43
Zahle, 35
Zhukov, Georgy Konstantinovich, 251-2

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