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This story has been submitted to the People’s War website by Peter Quinn of the Lancs. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Guard, on behalf of Alfred Stubbs and has been added to the site with Mr. Stubbs’ permission………

In 1942-43, when I was posted to HMS Sparrowhawk, the RN Air Station on the Orkneys, I remember watching the Italian PoWs (who had been captured in the N. African Campaign) working on the anti U boat concrete barrier, known as the Churchill Barrier.
Churchill ordered it to be built after the U boat under Commander Prein got in the habour and sank the battleship ‘Royal Oak’.
I also saw the Italians building the famous Italian Chapel out of a Nissan hut. We were defending Scappa because Churchill was wary of its being attacked.

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