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Italian Prison Of War Has Been Left A Suffolk Farm Where He Has Worked As A Labourer For The Past Forty Years

1988 , Hemingstone (Suffolk)

Cat no. 19031

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Owner bequeaths farm to Italian farm worker, a former prisoner of war.

Toni Figliuolo drives a tractor around the fields on the 140 acre farm which has been left to him by Florence McIntyre who died in May 1988. Forty years before, he was captured in Libya by Allied forces and brought to work as a prisoner of war on Brick Kiln Farm at Hemingstone, Suffolk. He worked the farm with just casual assistance, and is now very happy to own the farm, and at 69 years of age he has recently married too. The reporter was Pat Beasley for this video made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.

Keywords

Farms; Farmworkers; Agriculture; Gifts; Bequests; Legacies; Prisoners of war; Immigrants

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‘Toni the Italian’ was born at Picerno, Italy in 1919 and died aged 85 in 2004. After World War II he returned to Italy but could not find regular work and asked to return to Brick Kiln Farm which became his long-term home. See https://www.coddenham-parish.uk/project/toni-figliuolo-ww2-recollections/

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Italian Prison Of War Has Been Left A Suffolk Farm Where He Has Worked As A Labourer For The Past Forty Years

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