Once a hussar

By Ray Ellis

Subjects: Biography, Italy, biography, Guerrillas, British Personal narratives, HISTORY, World War, 1939-1945, Great britain, biography, Regimental histories, Military campaigns, Italian Prisoners and prisons, World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, Ancient, World war, 1939-1945, campaigns, africa, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, british, Great Britain. Army. South Notts Hussars, History, Soldiers, Prisoner-of-war escapes, Prisoners of war, Campaigns, Great Britain, World war, 1939-1945, regimental histories

Description: Once a Hussar is a vivid account of the wartime experiences of Ray Ellis, a gunner who in later life recorded this well-written, candid, and perceptive memoir of the conflict he knew as a young man seventy years ago. As an impressionable teenager, filled with national pride, he was eager to join the army and fight for his country. He enlisted in the South Notts Hussars at the beginning of the Second World War and started a journey that would take him through fierce fighting in the Western Desert, the deprivation suffered in an Italian prisoner-of-war camp and a daring escape to join the partisa.