Italian graves

On December 6 The Times published my letter asking for help in locating the grave of Captain Mario Paluda of the Italian Air Force. Mario Dingli of Sliema responded that in the 1950s he escorted an Italian couple to a gravesite in St Andrews.

I have pressed on with my research and now know that around 120 graves of German servicemen buried at Pembroke Military Cemetery were opened in 1960 and their remains were taken to Sardinia where they were re-interred in mass graves at the St Michelle cemetery.

It seems to me logical that if German graves at Pembroke were emptied and taken to the Italian island of Sardinia then any graves of Italian servicemen would have been taken at the same time.

Exhumations on this scale would be major operation and therefore may I ask any of your readers if they have any information about this event?

My address is: 13, Coleshill Place, Bradwell Common, Milton Keynes, MK13 8DG.