PG 85 Tuturano

Tuturano is a village in Brindisi, Italian region of Apulia (Puglia) in southern Italy.

PM 3450

Transit camp, opened May 1941 with a capacity for 6500 men. Accommodation consisted of barracks (wooden huts) and tents.

According to the Royal Army General Staff, Prisoner of War Office, the camp held 2 officers and 3585 troops as at 31st December 1942. As at 31st March 1943: 4829 troops.

More information here:

http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Pris-_N78986.html

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PG abbreviation

The full title is ‘Campo Concentramento di Prigioniere di Guerra’ (prisoner of war concentration camp). They were not concentration camps in the normal sense of the word. Camps were normally prefixed PG, but could be referred to as CC, Campo or Campo PG. The exception was the 2 Dulags and 1 Stalag within Italy, which were German controlled transit centres for POWs being transferred to Germany. The camps were originally known by their place names, and numbers were not introduced until early 1942. There are some camps with no numbers, perhaps they closed before early 1942?

PM abbreviation

Camps in Italy were divided into postal areas, each area designated ‘PM [number]’. PM translates to ‘Posta Militare’, meaning ‘military mail’. The number indicated the central postal reception area for the camps’ mail.