SS Sebastiano Venier (Jason) 09 Dec 1941

There is an article on the loss of the Sebastiano Venier in the Greek magazine Mani from 2012,relating to an unidentified British soldier buried at Romanos.(Andy Bye posted his research on the subject on this thread and has his article published in Mani)

Entitled the Unknown Soldier of Romanos,it accounts for a soldier's body washed ashore in December 1941 after the Italian POW ship had been sunk by HMS submarine Porpoise.

http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1wux6/InsidetheMani2012par/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http://www.insidemani.gr/digital-edition/

 

Hi newbie on this listing.
I've just received my late father's POW records via ICRC.
I believe he was on this POW ship.. survived and went to various Camps in Italy and Germany.
Does the list of persons LOST also advise NZers saved?

 

Hi, Emanuel and grias di from Biberach/Riss
I am eager to see your productions in future. please keep us informed.
Stefan.

 

Stefan,

You may have to try a PM to Emanuel ? They haven't posted since January 2009 (nine years ago )

Kyle

 

Welcome Lindsay,
Hopefully you will receive the answers you need but Brian, whose post you quoted, and really the No1 expert on this subject sadly passed away a couple of years ago. Greatly missed and someone who helped me a lot

Kyle

 

Gosh, thanks for the response Kyle.
I'm in New Zealand, and have emailed the Auckland War Memorial Museum as I see that they potentially have information.

 

Morning all

Had this published in the Australian Naval Historical Review a while back. The link takes you to a revised and (compared to the published) improved version of the article.

https://crusaderproject.wordpress.com/articles/

This is an expanded version of the blog entry here:

https://crusaderproject.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/the-tragedy-of-the-pows-killed-at-sea/

All the best

Andreas

 

Interesting to read in the above article the famous lines 'For you (nickname) the war is over'.

Oops!

The serviceman's own nickname didn't come into it! An allied soldier was always called 'Tommy' by the Germans because he carried - or was associated with carrying - a tommy gun!

 

"For you Tommy the War is over ! "

`Tommy Atkins` was a the term associated with the common British soldier . Used in the 19th Century and WW1 and in the days long before the `Tommy gun` ?

Kyle

 

Thanks for putting me on the right track! I'll check things out next time!