Comandini to (presumably) AK Boyd (brother) FRENCHĪ talk given by Keith Tudor Boyd to PROBUS Club 3, Northamptonġ/. – Letter from F/O SB Girling to AK Boyd (brother) – Letter from AK Boyd (brother) to Colonel Todhunter – Letter from Major General Neame to Mrs IM Boyd (wife)
– Letter from F/L John Leeming to Mrs IM Boyd (wife) – Letter from John Leeming to Mrs IM Boyd (wife), written from Sulmona
Rino Spada’s account of post-armistice movements of the generals.Places visited and people met along the way.Details of “Post-Armistice Wanderings”.“Post-Armistice Wanderings” – OT Boyd’s account of post-armistice wanderings (transcribed by AK Boyd).“Notes on the March Escape” – OT Boyd’s account of the digging of the tunnel and the March escape from Vincigliata.General’s camp – OT Boyd’s account of his landing in Italy and capture (transcription by his brother, AK Boyd, from manuscript by OTB and recollections of conversations between them).“Three years in Italy” – notes from a talk given by KT Boyd to his Probus Club.In the second window below is the transcribed version in plain text. The version in the first window below is the original scanned version of the story. Boyd was one of those who promptly left the camp, and he would spend the next 3 months moving through central Italy, trying to get through the Frontier to the British side.ĭigital pages 3-11 are from a talk given by his son, Keith Boyd. In September 1943, Italy surrendered and an armistice was announced. Boyd was returned to Vincigliata and spent 30 days in solitary confinement.
(The other 5 were: Lieutenant-General Adrian Carton de Wiart, Lieutenant-General Richard O’Connor, Brigadier John Combe, Brigadier James Hargest and Brigadier Reginald Miles.) Boyd and three others were recaptured within a few days. On 29th March, Boyd along with five other senior officers escaped through the tunnel. With the arrival of more senior officers, the villa became crowded, and in September 1941 all the senior officers were moved to the Castello di Vincigliata, in the hills above Florence.įrom September 1942 to March 1943 an escape tunnel was constructed within the castle. Along with other senior British officers, he was housed in the Villa Orsini. He was taken to the Prisoner of War camp at Sulmona, a town some 70 miles east of Rome. Air Vice Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd was in a Wellington bomber heading for Malta in November 1940, when forced to land in Sicily due to a fuel shortage.
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