80th Anniversary celebrations. Anne Copley looks back at a magnificent weekend of talks and festivities in Servigliano in September 2023

The American National Archives (NARA) hold 1.5 million documents from the Allied Screening Commission, rewarding Italians who sheltered Allied escapers after the 1943 Armistice. These documents include personal testimonies and are now accessible through a digitization project partly funded by the Trust. Researchers are making new discoveries, such as Marco Ercoli’s search for the American…

“Applying for the scholarship gave me the possibility to approach stories related to simple and humble people from my home town who did something great and special – they saved young soldiers’ lives. Furthermore, I got to know the work you are doing to keep the ties between the descendants of those soldiers and those…

Michael Todhunter was a long-time supporter of the MSM Trust. His father Brigadier E. J. Todhunter was held at Campo 12, Castello di Vincigliata, Fiesole. and moved at the time of the Armistice in September 1943 to the Monastery of Camaldoli. For the next eight months he lived with a family in the nearby hills…

Michael de Burgh, who has died aged 100, was believed to be the last surviving member of the 9th Royal Lancers who saw active service in the Second World War.