Title: Once a hussar
Description: Once a Hussar is a vivid account of the wartime experiences of Ray Ellis, a gunner who in later life recorded this well-written, candid, and perceptive memoir of the conflict he knew as a young man seventy years ago. As an impressionable teenager, filled with national pride, he was eager to join the army and fight for his country. He enlisted in the South Notts Hussars at the beginning of the Second World War and started a journey that would take him through fierce fighting in the Western Desert, the deprivation suffered in an Italian prisoner-of-war camp and a daring escape to join the partisa.
Subjects: Campaigns, Ancient, Great Britain. Army. South Notts Hussars, Guerrillas, Great Britain, Prisoner-of-war escapes, Biography, World War, 1939-1945, Soldiers, History, Regimental histories, Military campaigns, World war, 1939-1945, regimental histories, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, british, Great britain, biography, World war, 1939-1945, campaigns, africa, World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, Prisoners of war, Italy, biography, British Personal narratives, Italian Prisoners and prisons, World war, 1939-1945, europe, World war, 1939-1945, biography
Places: Italy, Great Britain, Apennines, North Africa, Greece
People: Ray Ellis (1920-)
Time periods: 20th century