Prisoners of War

Lost in the Mist or Fog !!

It was ‘found’ by two RAF Hurricanes who fired warning shots and headed the plane towards the...

My Brother Matthew, POW 1939-45

Other fellow POW's who Bill has spoken to since the war are amazed at how he managed to keep all these...

Fred's Journey: Part 5: The last leg back to England

After hospital Fred visited his old firm in Birmingham from 1946 to 1947, where the owners had kept his...

Charley Pocock's War Chapter 15

The usual Red Cross Christmas parcels had not arrived so we had very little to work with, but were given 60...

Gloucestershire - Sid's Story

In 1948 they decided to make their home permanently in Stonehouse and there they lived until their deaths,...

A Brief Account Of My War Memories

The news that the US had dropped the first atom bomb was heard on a secret radio, as was the news of...

Joan Lawton -Land Army Girl

I already had a brother in the Army and another brother in the Air Force and I really wanted to go in...

Being Shot Down, and part of the Great Escape

I was an officer pilot in a fighter squadron during the Second World War, first of all in France when we...

The Tank Suit

We went NE from Sittard and got to a place called Echt because there was a hold up there.We went forward...

Journey into the Unknown - Part 46

Following an air raid warning during the night, it was pitiful to see all the old folk doubled up by the...

POW Memories

I trained as a pilot at Wellesbourne on Tiger Moths then I went to Canada to a training aerodrome at...

The Return of a POW

From working at Sanders button factory Miss Byng was required to go to work at Longbridge on the munitions...

Dad's Three Months Forced March 1945: A POW in Poland and Germany

My father also kept a diary during his time as a P.O.W. I found the diary when I was clearing my...

Fred Hirst's Story Part 4 An Escaped POW in Italy

Fred Hirst had been serving with the Sherwood Foresters in Tunisia when he was captured by the Germans....

The Infamous Railway

Lucky escapes Richard had another lucky escape from unexploded bombs in the River Kwai, which are still...

The War of Two Sailors part four

One week after D-Day, Emil was sent to the Channel Islands where they lived on board their boat and carried...

Pip:The story of a Suffolk Soldier in Northern Italy 1943-4

He was then moved from camp to camp until escaping one day when the Italian guards left the camp and found...

Fred's Journey, Part 4: Leaving the POW camp in Japan

However I managed to take a pair of Wies binoculars home, which my dad just gave to his old mate, a bookie!...

Experience of a POW chapter six

The Germans stationed two 'E' boats just off shore, which were machine-gunning those troops on the...

My 21st Birthday in Prison Camp Thorn Fort 13 Stalag 20A

I told them I would be a dead loss to them as I was not able to work and they said 'this...

Only Four Cards in Four POW Years

Then one day, about three months later, a small brown card arrived in the post, with a short printed...

My Wartime Service and Experiences. Part 2

Our train proceeded over the causeway, the doors of the railway truck were left open and we were able to...

Opperation Exodus

In fact it turned out to be our last 'op'. In Eupore, whilst hanging about in the crew room, the...

France, July 1944

In 1940, the Germans invaded France, and most of the Spanish refugees joined the French Resistance,...

Pigs Blood and Potatoes

We got captured at Dunkirk and were marched across France to Germany. I remember that when we were in...

Sabotage in Saigon

There was one time we were supposed to be loading a Japanese ship with rice, and we used to have Gunga Dins...