Prisoners of War

A Gay Soldier's Story

PETER TATCHELL tells the moving story of a gay soldier during WW2, PRIVATE DUDLEY CAVE. Having risked his...

My Grandads Story

Grandad did many jobs in Changi, one of those was a "Batman" to a Japanese Officer, I think that is...

Memories of an Eight Year Old Boy

Our house was not suitable for living in and my uncle came to take my sister and myself to stay with my...

1/7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment C company

He was always disparaging of the prisoner of war films made after the war as they always portrayed the life...

From Herne Bay to Poland, Prisoner of War (Stammlager XXID)

A conflict of information has arisen as a book entitled 'Prisoners of War British Army 1939-1945, has...

A German POW in France - and a resulting Friendship

One grandfather, having lost an eye in the North African campaign and later surviving eight years in a...

Liberation by Four Cossacks April 1945 To

Containing a coal or wood burning stove, a hotplate to brew up or warm up any food that came mainly from Rd...

Diamond Wedding (June 2nd 2005) - 6 years POW could not keep my parents apart. Part 2

We stayed in France a while and finally we flew home in a Lancaster Bomber the day before V.E. day. My girl...

My Trip to Stalagluft III

About five minutes after getting to the police station, two fairly senior German Polizei turned up and took...

(Banger) Bert Hall One War Hero

Banger still refused; the officer asked Bert why not. Unluckily for Bert, when the officer saw him he said,...

Experience of a POW chapter Thirteen

I was signalman at Docking on the Kings Lynn Hunstanton line until December 1957 where I left railway...

Henry Lund's War Chapter 5 'News of the Invasion'

George Bradley from Bradford and I forced the lock on a grill and slid in through a vent and used to steal...

Postcards from the Burma Railway

When work resumed on the railway the British officer complained to the Japanese that the remaining men were...

Maurice Jennings, Prisoner of War and the Forced March: Stalag 8B at Lamsdorf

Eventually, we were moved to our own English camp; Stalag 8B at Lamsdorf....

Personal Experiences of a POW

At one point, they crossed the Rhine and the Nazi soldiers began trying to collect their tin helmets for...

Dad's Journey

Dad said their situation was so bad because the Italians had so very little themselves, that he...

One Man’s Experience of WWII and as a POW - James T Napier

We then travelled to Dunkirk, reaching the shore but were cut short on our journey back to Britain, due to...

French Girl

The Germans probably thought it not worthwhile to treat me if I was about to be executed I'm not sure...

Experience of a POW chapter eight

Some one close by had some scraps of paper and a pencil so hurriedly I scribbled down my name and address...

Irish Guards Held Prisoner - Thuine Near Lingen Germany

From the small windows at ground level in the cellars they could see an open sided German Army truck with...

P.O.W. Pussy

He knew I was Tom Barker of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and not the real Harry Tenny. But whilst...

Thomas Trimble RAF P.O.W. Wartime Log Chapter 3 Germany The Long March

Jan 22 Reported Russian armour over Oder Bridge which we crossed reported demolished, at 3 a.m. Panic...

My Life My War - Chapter 14

I applied for and received my brother's medals and offered them with the story to the Royal Artillery...

Some Things are Meant to Be

Although both my Granma and Grandad spoke very little about the war, my Dad was able to explain in more...

Macaronis and Doodlebugs

Fleeting acquaintances with the Luftwaffe in the Vale of Belvoir; during a "holiday" to Glasgow,...

Doug Chandler: Dunkirk and Beyond: With the Royal Signals

From Catterick my unit was moved to Derbyshire prior to embarking from Portsmouth to Le Havre in France. I...