WARTIME CHRISTMASES IN FIVE COUNTRIES IN WORLD WAR II

Abstract

This article is a first-person account of six wartime Christmases spent in no less than five countries: Kenya, Libya, Italy, Germany and, finally, South Africa. The writer, a gunner with the Second South African Division, was captured at Tobruk and spent the remaining three years of the war, with the exception of short periods of escape, as a prisoner of war.

Keywords

• first-person account
• six wartime Christmases
• gunner with the Second South African Division
• captured at Tobruk
• 2nd Anti-Aircraft Brigade