Prisoners of War

A Rhodesian Pilot's Story - Chapter 3 - Escape Attempts

Because of the tying-up episode, the Germans had to take reprisals, so the RAF in Stalag VIII B were...

Charley Pocock's War Chapter 11

In Italy we were issued with three kinds English, Canadian and New Zealand and one period we received what...

Captured While Defending Dunkirk - Wally's Story

The march As they were marched through Lille in Belgium, a cockney female voice called out to Wally from...

James Eric Wicketts Memories - Part 2

On arriving at the Stalag the Germans put us into the cells until the next day. From time to time the...

Richard Bradley, Escape from Stalag VIIIB, Part 2 - Prisoner of War

On Easter Saturday we were taken to Rennes by hospital train and landed in a French prisoner of war camp....

Winged Chariots -Part 9: The Long Walk

The prisoners were marched out, little knowing that the ordeal would last for the next 21 days before...

1943 North Africa

One afternoon Frank, Polly and I went into town, it was the first Arab town that we visited and it was an...

Arnhem Veteran And P.O.W. Remembered

PRIVATE ERNEST HAMLETT (4462122) DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY 1ST BATTALION, BORDER REGIMENT P.O.W. STALAG XIB,...

Walter Hobson's Service in the Forces - Part 6

Other parts to this story can be found at: Pt 1:..... a4178333 Pt 2:..... a4178360 Pt 3:...... a4178388 Pt...

The Life and Love of a British P.O.W, Germany, 1940 -1945

The Danish Red Cross worker's best friend, called Gunver von Born, was also a Danish Red Cross worker,...

In the Mountains of Aquila

Just as well because soon after we saw a lot of Germans who were apparently the crew of a large naval gun...

Richard Bradley, Escape from Stalag VIIIB, Part 3 - First bid for freedom

Alf said to me, “Dick, with your knowledge of Southern Germany, and the language, there is no reason...

Eddie Gurmin part 3: Prisoner of War

And evertime we moved we were in cattle trucks, you know, they got us down from East Prussia in cattle...

Charley Pocock's War Chapter 10

The arrival of the contractor improved things a bit, he was responsible for supplying goods other than that...

WWII Memories in Brief

This man gave me a huge breakfast after which he put me in his own bed. I was awakened by the arrival...

Charley Pocock's War Chapter 22.1

2000 - Tea or cocoa made in room from Red X parcels, bread, butter and jam, 1 biscuit and cheese. The...

Patrick Devlin - A Granddaughter's Recollections

Grandad was captured by the Italians and held in a prisoner of war camp. When the Italians surrendered he...

Return to Burma

Major Maxwell RM., who I knew, and Sgt/Major Smith belonged to a SOG party that had landed by canoe from a...

Henry Lund's War Chapter 6 'The long march to freedom

We passed from Czechoslovakia through Ansig Oberstentansdorf and other towns which had been flattened by...

I was in the German Army and captured by the English!

A GERMAN'S POINT OF VIEW My name is Otto Damm, I was born in Steinweiler, near Karlsruhe on the Rhine....

Memories from Members of Stanford Bridge Day Centre, Worcestershire

My friend John Coneili who is now buried in Rushford, Tenbury was awarded the VC in Italy. AUDREY JENKINS...

Experience of a POW chapter eleven

Our guards had become particularly nervous when aircraft were about for fear they would mistake us for a...

Captured at Calais: A Kings Royal Rifleman

Zabreh, then known by its German name of Hohenstadt, is in northern Moravia, the eastern province of what...

Sid Hayden,France,Belgium

Sid Hayden in France and Belgium. Just before 10th April 1945 the German soldiers, who with Sid and the...

War Time on a Suffolk Farm

Of Desert Dust and Auschwitz

You are now prisoners of the Third Reich”, announced a German Officer to a bedraggled group of us......