October 2, 2023
80th Anniversary at Servigliano
From 6th – 10th September 2023, more than 70 supporters of the Monte San Martino Trust took part in four days of action-packed celebrations to mark the 80th anniversary of the Armistice with Italy, the event that precipitated the escape of thousands of Allied servicemen from PoW camps into the Italian countryside.
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May 15, 2023
Eden Camp Memorial Stone Unveiled in Moving Ceremony
The Trust and its sister charity, the Escape Lines Memorial Society (ELMS), have fulfilled a long-held desire to establish a permanent memorial to the brave Italians who rescued escaped PoWs.
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January 26, 2023
Escape from Fontanellato
Professor Robert Tregay's introductory words to article regarding Eric Newby and Love and War in the Apennines. January 2023 Recovering...
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Parri presentation
Pictured Above : Costantino Di Sante, Isabella Insolvibile, Nicola` Cacciatore and Igor Pizzirusso Research into the history of prisoner of...
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MSMT Lunch
The past and present came together at the annual lunch of the Monte San Martino Trust on November 16th 2022.
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May 18, 2022
A People’s Courage
The Trust has published a translation into English of first-hand accounts by Italian contadini who hid escaped Allied prisoners of war in Le Marche. The book is called A People’s Courage: Civil Resistance in German-occupied Italy.
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The pent-up demand from MSMT members for a get-together, following the cancellation of the annual meeting in 2021, was evidenced...
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November 13, 2021 / Helpers
Wreath at massacre village
Seb Pollington lays the wreath at Collelungo A Remembrance wreath was laid on November 11 2021 in Collelungo, in the...
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October 31, 2021
Italian book on PoW camps
Italian experts on the Allied presence in Italy during the Second World have combined to produce a book that provides...
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- Climb over Monte Moro
- Meeting Maria Elena
- Support for quake-hit town
- Across Frontiers
- Raising our profile in Italy
- Memoirs of Frank Unwin
- Pupil exchange with Italian school
- Nick Young’s travel blog
- Nick Young’s travel blog: Stage 3
- 2017 Annual Luncheon
- SAS in Italy
- Armistice 75th Anniversary
- Where Great-grandfather trod
- Celebrations in Fontanellato
- Freedom Trail in the Marche
- Moral Courage prize awarded
- Myfanwy’s trek
- A woman as witness
- Champagne on ice
- Antonio Millozzi presented with MBE
- TV tribute to artist
- The grim story of Chieti
- Memorial for Hugo de Burgh
- Great-grandsons on bursaries
- Live and Learn Italian
- A diary… and a photo
- Ambassador hosts receptions
- Lawrence Thurgood’s Jouney into the past
- Ten marathons in seven days
- Partisan kids
- The pupil translators
- Stuart Hood centenary
- Facts and fiction
- A Kind of Holiday
- Behind the lens – Across Frontiers
- Sulmona newsletter 2016
- The Long Trail Home
- Journey into the past
- Tenna Valley Trail 2018