Prisoners of War

POW Life

This was our last POW camp, it was rough, there was no food because of the British bombing everything, the...

"I Know He Is Alive": POW in Japan

Mum continued with her stoical belief that George was alive and, six months after the second telegram, a...

Sequel to : Liberated by Cossacks

They endured a regime of even less food than the rest received from the Germans and as I intimated earlier,...

Japanese Prisoner of War

I trained at Gorleston, Yarmouth and all round there, then we went to Cambridge for a week, then they sent...

Memories from Being a Prisoner of War in Japanese POW Camps

The Japanese military police kicked the boy off the bicycle and smashed it....

An Adventure

Cynics might say that the 18th division was delivered to Singapore just in time to suffer the humiliation...

The Outbreak of War: From the Point of View of a Scots Guard

I was in Hyde Park on the Saturday afternoon and watched the first German aircraft fly over to bomb the...

All Things Must Pass

Although being a driver/dispatch rider, my main job was as batman-driver to our Signals Officer, Second...

Escape from Jinsen Chesan POW Camp, Korea and Other Memories - Part 3

I think it was three days later that a lorry load of Russian troops entered our camp and arrested all of...

Jack Place's War - Part 2

As a result a few days later when the slag train came rolling up to where we were working, the line on...

Repatriating Allied Prisoners of War in France 1945 by Edna Stafford (nee Hodgson)

There were also a fair number of Indian prisoners passing through this camp and being short-staffed, I...

The War Ends in Italy, 2nd May 1945

At any one time there were only four men on actual guard around the perimeter, one patrolling the railway...

Experience of a POW chapter five

We were more relieved when a British Destroyer arrived and fired back at the enemy very effectively"....

The Forgotten Heroes of World War 2

They also said "Bosch come, France finished". But what had remained of the British Expeditionary...

The Last Boarding Action of the Royal Navy

In Cossack, R.N.V.R Officer Lieutenant Craven invited the Senior Norweigan Captain aboard and informed him...

Wartime Memories of Thomas W Gould

We were shipped to France in May 1940 and our first encounter with enemy forces was at Dieppe - the Germans...

My War in the `Duke of Wellingtons'

Around 1945 the British and Russian troops surrounded the Germans in Poland and Germany. The Russian...

FEPOW - William Coates Nicholls PART 2

Then a few days later the cruiser Sussex came into Singapore town, and the Admiral and some men came to...

Kenneth S Burns: My War - Memories of a Prisoner of War - Part II

We went by rail to Haito camp where there were already a few British offices and other ranks. We had our...

My Only Work Experience Placement or Alternatively 'Captured'

Coming out of Stoke St. Michael on the road to Waterlip and Branmore, the first and largest quarry was...

Seaforth Highlander - P.O.W. Diary

June- Leave Meppen for Eastern Germany Berlin, Breslone , Lamsdorf. May 10th —Left Leznity get lift...

'The Will to Live': Chapter 13: In River Valley Road POW Camp

RIVER VALLEY ROAD CAMP My first impression of this camp was one of filth and disorder, after the...

An Italian Prisoner of War Remembers Somerset

Eventually he arrived at a PoW camp just outside the village of Goathurst, near Bridgwater, in Somerset; at...

Bernard Holland's War Diary

We left El Le Hag on about the 15th October 1941, travelling by lorry, Geoff, Morley, myself and a few...

Peter Allwood, Lancaster Pilot

The members of his crew were Leslie Bown, Ray Lord, Richard Parkinson, Stephen Sheldon, Ernest Farley and...

Jack South's Story

According to the IRC records this happened in Tunisia on the 19th of December 1941 and it took 2 months to...