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- derbycsv
- People in story:Ìý
- Thomas Alfred Wright. Johann Schwarzenberger
- Location of story:Ìý
- Vols, Innsbruck, Austria.
- Background to story:Ìý
- Army
- Article ID:Ìý
- A4647972
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 01 August 2005
This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Louise Angell from the CSV Action Desk at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio on behalf of Thomas Alfred Chapman and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.
During the war I was in the army. After the invasion of Italy, in 1945 we moved into Austria. Although by this time I was a cook, the companys job was to build camps for the soldiers coming back across Europe. One day we went looking for water as there was none at the camp we happenned to be in. We knocked on the front door of a house in the village of Vols, near Innsbruck. Johann Schwarzenberger answered the door and I asked for 'drinking wasser'. he relplied 'ja, ja' and pointed to a tap in the garden. We went back every day to fill our cans up and today we're still in touch with the schwarzenberger family.
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