'A few were able to make a successful getaway by jumping from moving trucks en route to a railway station or to a transit camp. One of the half dozen or so NZers who were still at Campo PG 52 at the time of the armistice jumped into a ditch unnoticed while being marched to the Chiavari station. With a companion he made his way over the hills to Genoa and along the Riviera to Nice. There he made contact with an underground organisation, which made arrangements for him to go to France and so to Spain. In mid-February 1944 his party crossed the Pyrenees in deep snow and blizzards, and he eventually reached Barcelona and Gibraltar. Private J. S. Kennard-Davis (24 Bn) awarded MM for this exploit.' (Source: Mason, W.W. Prisoners of War. p. 288.) AWMM