REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

We have had a request for information on LT. H.J. DORRIAN No.198253, 1941 15TH BATT. DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY.  

"H.J.Dorrian was in POW camp Fontanellato , near Parma , when the Italian Armistice occurred on 8th Sept 1943.
In March 1944 he was with my father, Lt Frank Adams of the 3rd Royal Tank Regt in the hill village of Magliano, in the Apennines above Lucca, Tuscany.
Neither Frank Adams’ nor H.J.Dorrian’s escape reports have survived.  I am researching my father’s escape and time with the Italian partisans in 1943/44 and would like to hear from anyone who knew H.J.Dorrian or knew his family and may be able to put me in contact with his descendants.
After twenty years of looking, this year, 2016, I identified Magliano and found the Italian  family who hid and helped Frank Adams and H.J.Dorrian . The then daughter of the house is still alive and villagers who were children in 1944 remember the British officers.
I am hoping that H.J.Dorrian may have left an account of his time in Italy with his family and that his descendants may be interested in meeting the Italians who sheltered him from the Fascists"

If you can help please use the contact button at the top of the page and we will put you in touch with Mr Adams