Prisoners of War

Alexander Mallet War Journal

I saw a lot of cruelty by German troops to the people of Greece while marching to and while waiting at the...

Prisoner of War, Escape and Journey Home (4)

We were to assist the Russians as the Germans could have broken through Turkey, making for the Suez canal....

My Life - Born in 1918, then a Soldier in WW2 - Part 3

The German Officers in the camp took photos of men, one on a visit showed Buckingham Palace with the German...

Episodes from an Uncertain Memory 5 'P.O.W.'

They knocked hell out of Offlag 79, fortunately before I arrived, but a considerable amount of damage was...

Prisoner of War Story/Gordon Highlanders Part 2

I started to explain in my "pigeon" French that I had no "Papiers" and that I was a Czech...

A Yorkshire Recce Driver's End of War Memories

In fact, whilst I was based at Wuppertal after the war, I was on guard duty at the prison where Von...

Henry Lund's War Chapter 4 'Five years as a POW

After three days in cattle trucks without food or drink we arrived at Lamsdorf Stalag VIIIB. This would be...

My Life - Born in 1918, then a Soldier in WW2 - Part 2

We passed through a village and the French had put out buckets of water and some did give us food, but even...

My Life - Born in 1918, then a Soldier in WW2 - Part 4

The way to try and fool the guards was that now, some of the Prisoners-of-War could speak and understand...

'The Will To Live': Chapter 31 - Blood, Wells & Evil in High Places

Working long hours on the hut building party for the next few days, I saw little of Jimmy, but he was...

A Rifleman in North Africa: Part 3: Transported

I should imagine there were only about four ships in the harbour of any size, apart from a destroyer, and...

German Paratrooper POW

Heinz remembers the captain pulling a bald prisoner out of their line-up and advising the rest of them to...

A Rhodesian Pilot's Story - Chapter 2 - Life in a POW Camp

The reason there were about 1,000 RAF prisoners in this large army POW camp was that at that time there...

My Life - Born in 1918, then a Soldier in WW2 - Part 7

It was German Officers beer!.. When it left Danzig, it was full of German civilians, Navy Ratings and some...

Memories - A Boy's War in Hellfire Corner

German POW's started working in the town, digging a large trench up London Road and Old Park Road to...

Escape from Germany 1945 by Arthur Berry

He said that there was no food available on the airfield but a “chow” wagon would be along in a...

Thomas Trimble RAF P.O.W. Wartime Log Chapter 2 France

In a very short time I was lined up in a passage with a lot of other P.O.W.s mostly yanks, however they...

From Captivity to Freedom: From BEF to POW - and Back Again

Les refused to stay in a P.O.W. camp in Germany and was made to march across Europe The forced labour that...

That Split Eternal Second (Part 2)

All that afternoon, from the depths of the hay, we listened to the clinking of tools as the Jerries dug...

Prisoner of the Germans - 4 - Christmas

November 12th: The German sergeant-major gave me some bird picture cigarette cards, which I still have. The...

Charley Pocock's War Chapter 12

They had even more to talk about a few days later when I received another 9 parcels and Charles Woodbridge...

Prisoner of War/ Gordon Highlanders Part 1

At a window of the farmhouse a French woman was throwing out food to our fellows as they passed along, but...

James Kenna - The Story of A Prisoner of War

Stalag IVB, along with its various surrounding working camps, was eventually liberated by the Russians in...

Experience of a POW chapter seven

Fortunately for us there was a disturbance at the rear of the column created by a French woman offering...

That Split Eternal Second: Shot down over Holland

Lifting the escape hatch under my bombing position, and battling with the roaring wind, I dropped it...

My Wartime Service and Experiences. Part 3

I left this camp some weeks later with a party of prisoners of war and Japanese guards; we walked a...