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It’s the ANZAC Day long weekend. And it's also family history time!!
Find out how my grandfather Company Quartermaster Sergeant Major William Cook was captured in North Africa in November 1942, was made prisoner of war, and escaped via the Vatican. An amazing story and one I did not believe until my family was recently able to retrieve official War Office documents!! I’ll post these documents on the AWP Facebook page.
I know it isn't strictly Australian history, but it is a great story.
By James Dampier4.7
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It’s the ANZAC Day long weekend. And it's also family history time!!
Find out how my grandfather Company Quartermaster Sergeant Major William Cook was captured in North Africa in November 1942, was made prisoner of war, and escaped via the Vatican. An amazing story and one I did not believe until my family was recently able to retrieve official War Office documents!! I’ll post these documents on the AWP Facebook page.
I know it isn't strictly Australian history, but it is a great story.

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