Army Camps in Italy/North Africa

[DAVID WALTERS]

Hi All

Can anyone help me to locate: General Hospital Number 22, BNAF sent there 9.3.1944? Transit camp 305 sent CMF sent there 18.7.1945? And Transit camp 65. These facts are taken from my father's WW2 army records. I keep wondering where they were in my father's three years service in Italy/North Africa 26.2.1943 to 6.4.1946.
Because he was in the catering corps (started out with the Welsh Borders, but also with the 8th army), he spent a lot of time at these transit camps. Any ideas anyone?

David

[KGarrad]

Found this on www.scarletfinders.co.uk:

22 British General Hospital
Pembroke Dock 1/9/39 to 9/40 then to Macallock Castle; Mackalloch Castle [spelling differs every time] 9/40 to 9/40 then to Glasbury-on-Wye; Glasbury-on-Wye 9/40 to 10/40 then to Copthorne; Shrewsbury Copthorne 11/40 to 5/42 then overseas; Quassassin 7/42 to 8/42 then to Saida; Saida (Syria) 8/42 to 5/43 then to Quassassin; Quassassin 5/43 to 1/44 then to Taranto; Taranto 1/44 to 6/45 then to Mestre; Mestre 6/45 to 7/45.

[DAVID WALTERS]

 

This is great! My father was there from 9 April 1944 to 14th May 1944, maybe even longer. So it looks like Taranto, in southern Italy. I know my father spent a lot of time in Italy, he had some Italian staff working for him in the kitchens (he was a chef), and he spoke a lot of Italian after the war (yet Welsh by birth), and he got engaged to a Italian girl during the war years (but my grandmother put a stop to that), good old gran! He later returned to Wales and met and married my mam.
Thanks for your help.

David