Introductory Guide / Site Map
To go direct to any page, please click the underlined section of any entry. Introductory Guide / Site Map "Putting Up The Sign Posts" PART ONE - "Missing in Action - Believed POW" - Middle East Chapter 1 - Becoming a POW Chapter 2 - Being a POW Chapter 3 - The Geneva Conventions and Protocols covering POW Chapter 4 - Transportation of POW Chapter 5 - Italian Prison Camps for ANZACS Chapter 6 - Italian AIF POW Casualty List (Incomplete) PART TWO - Escape of ANZAC POW from Italian Prison Camps to neutral Switzerland - "I don’t like the look of those bloody high mountains" Chapter 1 - The Italian Armistice September 1943 Chapter 2 - Confederatio Helvetica Chapter 3 - The Hague Conventions and Protocols governing the conduct of neutral countries in times of war Chapter 4 - Neutrality: Swiss Style Chapter 5 - The Yankees are coming! Chapter 6 - The Swiss "Camp" at Adelboden Chapter 7 - Adelboden/Wildegg: The Richner Family Chapter 8 - Capt. Jack Kroger, his AIF Officers, and the "Swiss Composite AIF Half-Battalion" Chapter 9 - Christmas in the Snow Chapter 10 - SOE and its activities in Switzerland - Frank "Butch" Jocumsen and John Peck Chapter 11 - The Bombing of Schauffhausen by the USAAF Chapter 12 - The Role of Diamonds: Diamonds are the Swiss Best Friends Chapter 13 - Love knows No Borders - POW Marriages in Switzerland Chapter 15 - Repatriation - Farewell and Thanks for the Hospitality Chapter 16 - Home via Naples and Bombay for most - via Eastbourne in the UK for some Chapter 17 - Official Report on the AIF in Switzerland, by Capt. Jack Kroger - Senior AIF officer PART THREE - The RAAF in Switzerland - Abstract from AIF POW Nominal Roll" "The Intrepid Alpine Airmen - Some in their flying machine" PART FOUR - Full Nominal Roll of all AIF "Free Men" in Switzerland Chapter 1 - Nominal Roll of AIF POW in Switzerland: Chapter 2 - The Sixth Division POW in Switzerland Chapter 3 - The Seventh Division POW in Switzerland Chapter 4 - The Ninth Division POW in Switzerland Chapter 5 - Support Troops POW in Switzerland PART FIVE - Other AIF POW European "Free Men" in addition to those in Switzerland. "Another AIF POW Composite Half-Battalion Behind Enemy Lines Elsewhere in Europe?" Preface & Summary Chapter 3 - The Balkans & Central Europe Chapter 7 - Germany and Austria Chapter 8 - The British Free Corps PART SIX - Incomplete Nominal Roll and Casualty List of the AIF POW "Free Men" in Europe. "We Shall Remember Them". Preface & Summary Chapter 1 - #1 Reception Camp Eastbourne Chapter 2 - Operation Liddington Chapter 3 - Incomplete Nominal Roll & Casualty List of POW from various units, who either escaped and returned to Allied Lines, reached Switzerland or another neutral country, remained underground in enemy occupied territory, became "Freedom Fighters" with local partisan groups, were repatriated by the IRC or died on active service from various causes in the European theatre of war during 1939 - 1945. |