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Welcome to the Monte San Martino Trust |
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The Monte San Martino Trust was founded in 1989 by J. Keith Killby, a former prisoner of war in Italy, together with other veterans of the Second World War. The Trust awards English language study bursaries to Italians, aged 18 to 25, in recognition of the courage and generosity of the Italian people who aided thousands of escaping Allied prisoners of war after the Armistice in 1943.
The Trust relies largely on donations to fund these bursaries. In addition to the bursaries, the Trust supports walks along Freedom Trails in Italy to commemorate the escapes by PoWs and the hospitality given to them during their attempts to reach safety.
The Trust holds an annual Fontanellato luncheon, named after the PoW camp near Parma from where 600 officers escaped. It issues an annual newsletter and has an archive containing more than 300 books and manuscripts by those who were "on the run".
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Newsflash - Fontanellato lunch |
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Eight former prisoners of war in Italy were among the 70 guests present at the 2009 Fontanellato luncheon of the Monte San Martino Trust at the Royal Overseas League Club, London, on 3 November. The guest speaker was Robert Hann, author of SAS Operation Galia, the account of an SAS mission in the Rossano Valley in which his father, Stanley Hann, took part. See below for a report of the lunch and an edited account of the speech.
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Newsflash -- Rossano Freedom Trail |
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The highly successful Freedom Trail walk, undertaken in September 2009 to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Monte San Martino Trust, raised approximately £8,500 in sponsorship. The walk ran from Pontremoli via Rossano to Vernazza in the Cinque Terre, Liguria and was organised by Brian Gordon Lett, whose father commanded international partisans in the Rossano Valley. Click on Freedom Trails, on the website's front page, to read a full report.
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