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Brigadier Edward Joseph Todhunter TD, DL, (1900–1976) soldier and High Sheriff of Essex Ted Todhunter was born in Essex, on his family estate Kingsmoor House and Stewards farm in Great Parndon. He attended Rugby School becoming a Cadet in the O.T.C division. In 1922 he was Gazetted as 2nd Lt. in the Territorial Royal Field Artillery 104th (Essex Tea.) Brigade. He married Agnes Swire in 1927 and promoted Lieutenant-Colonel. During World War II serving as a Brigadier with the Royal Horse Artillery and was captured at Mechili in Cyrenaica North Africa with General Gambier-Parry in April 1941. He was initially brought to the same barracks as Major-General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart VC in Tripoli.〔Carton de Wiart p184〕 Then by ship to Naples and to the Villa Orsini near Sulmona. He helped in the garden and ‘collected news from Italian newspapers, making a resume of them in English which he managed brilliantly’.〔Carton de Wiart p188〕 He was transferred to Castello di Vincigliata (PG12) in April 1942. It was a medieval castle near Florence for very high ranking officers. Amongst the captives were Major-General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart VC, Air Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd, Lieutenant General Sir Philip Neame VC, Lieutenant-Colonel John Frederick Boyce Combe, General Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor and Thomas Daniel Knox, 6th Earl of Ranfurly -known as 'Dan' Rufurly. He took on the role of camp librarian, which by the spring of 1943 numbered nearly one thousand books.〔Hargest p77〕 He was part of the tunnelling group that worked in shifts for over six months. The escape was successful -six officers escapes and two managed to make Switzerland, New Zealanders Brigadiers James Hargest and Reginald Miles. He was able to escape during the Italian Armistice in September 1943 with the remaining officers and men. They branched off into the mountains seeking refuge in the Monastery of Camaldoli. ‘He discovered a retired Dutch diplomat,〔Neame p315〕 close by, and he and O’Connor used to listen to the news on their wireless’.〔Ranfurly p237〕 He joined the Italian partisans known as the Garibaldi Brigade Romagna under the leadership of Libero Riccardo Fedel. During the winter of 1943/4 this partisan group helped dozens of allied prisoners to escape and together with MI9 officers he reached Allied lines in Ancona, by fishing boat with Guy E Ruggles-Brise (who later - like him became a High Sheriff of Essex after the war) together with Combe, Ranfurly and an American pilot Jack Reiter 〔Ranfurly p228〕 by May 1944. He was flown to Algiers and from there together with John Combe was flown to England in May 1944.〔Ranfurly p228,230,〕 After the war he served as High Sheriff of Essex 1964–1965, living at Threshers in Harlow. Later he lived at The Glebe House, Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, and held the office of Justice of the Peace. He had one daughter Janet Hazel Margaret Todhunter who married in 1952. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward Joseph Todhunter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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