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STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES Feature: looking back at the Italian prisoners of war who settled in Somerset after 1945 and made a new life for themselves from shovelling coal to playing in a silver band in Burtle
Imperial War Museum image of Italian PoWs being escorted by British troops to camps in Africa Somerset has been enriched by immigrants since the year dot. Although it’s Syrian immigrants who make t…