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Hill 112 and the Death March

My seargeant Offord was hit and i put my whole pack of bandages in the hole in his stomach. I went to...

'The Will To Live': Chapter 10 - Captured!

asked the Jap, as the party stopped a yard or two away, ‘No, me Lt. Col. As the Japs led him and...

Les Baker's Letter Home. Pt.l. Journey to Singapore

Well Mum as you know already I managed to get Tom in the same cabin as I on the boat "Capetown...

My Dad and "Friendly Fire": 10th Field Ambulance in Tunisia

My Dad, Walter Emm, served with the 10th Field Ambulance in Tunisia, Italy and Greece....

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Water Bottle Radio

We played football on that early summer evening and it began to rain and John Willbourne suggested we...

Great escape (of the mind)

He spoke of trying to shelter in stony orchards where the German shells turned the rocks into lethal...

Experiences As A Japanese Prisoner-of-War 1941 - 1945

The Japanese forces captured Singapore during early 1942, and our ship was re-directed to Java, in the...

Russian Georgio Kozloff's story of slave camp and escape

Lieutenant Kozloff himself helped to bury two Russians in the Strangers Cemetery where he thinks sixty six...

Maurice Taggart - An Infant in Greenock

My name is Maurice Taggart and I was born on the 4th of July1939, at Rankin Memorial Hospital in Greenock....

Henry Lund's War Chapter 7 'Release the the Journey Home'

On the 8th May we were flown by Dakota aircraft to Brussels where we were cleaned up and given cash......

My War as an Air Gunner by Fred Stead

My story takes place in 1944 when I was flying with a special duty squadron supplying resistance groups all...

The Camp of Silence and of Death

The Senior RAF officer had given orders that all personnel in the area should visit this prison and it was...

SHOT DOWN OVER AACHEN

He was a bomb aimer in a halifax bomber and on the night of 24th may 1944 he was shot down over...

My Dad: Jack Longworth

Like many men who served in World War II my Dad Jack Longworth was always loathe to talk about his wartime...

Escape from a Polish Prisoner of War Camp.

He finally reached Warsaw after tramping over 300 miles in 13 days, including a hairaising scramble under a...

Eric, Service no 1392973: A Modest Hero of Bomber Command - and POW

I feel bound to honour the memory of this man, and all his comrades in arms in bomber command whose memory...

Experience of a POW chapter ten

Amongst the fresh influx of prisoners were a number of aircrews from both America and Britain... The...

Fred's Journey, Part 3: After the Atom Bombicon for Story with photo

After the Atom Bomb we sort of regrouped on what was left of our camp....

Three Ex-Servicemen Reminisce

He was to take it to Brize Norton into RAF service and was being towed by a Sterling bomber... It grew dark...

A Common Soldiers Storyicon for Story with photo

However, by 1939 Britain had declared war on Germany and Grandpa was one of the first to be ‘called...

The Legend of Pedroicon for Story with photo

In my Japanese Prison Camp, there were seven long prison sheds to house the prisoners, each one divided...

Third Time Lucky

There was a short time looking after the wounded, then in July 1940 the captives started a march across...

A Funeral Tribute

My son Chris wrote a tribute to his Grandad that he read at the funeral. I am Chris Scudamore, Grandson of...

In These We Served

A sturdy British Brigadier, A Nippon bayonet at his rear He struggled with his tangled gear And a little...

Captured on the Road to Dunkirk

Later in the day the ambulance convoy set off towards Dunkirk, but during the darkness the convoy got...

Prisoner of War in Leros 1944

I was held prisoner on the island of Leros with the Kings Own Royal Regiment. We were transported by the...

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