Prisoners of War

Verushka-A POW 's story

Major Lee was a friend of my parent's and when I was a small boy I kept my pony in Major Lee's...

Acting Italian

As I speak a little Italian and am dark I should not have been noticed so easily, but my South African pal...

A Story with a Happy Ending.

After A.C.R.C initiation at Weston-Super-Mare, a wireless course at Yatesbury, gunnery school at Manby, a...

A/B Arthur Blacketer

Dad was transferred to Trapani in Sicily and then onto a prison camp just outside Rome and finally to a...

Removing a Leg, With a Penknife

I am going to begin this story in about 1960/1 when I was about nine years of age, my father had taken...

Villeneuve St Georges, 35 Squadron, Pathfinders: My Last Operation

Below is an account of the last flight of Lancaster ND846-TL-J for Johnnie, as told to me by my uncle,...

Journey into the Unknown - Part 49

For a few hours we were in a 'No man's Land'situation, until eventually the forces of Russian...

Fighting for Boulogne

My father, Arthur Colin Guest, was serving in France at the time of the German Blitz Kreig in 1940....

My Dad's WW2 Contribution: Worcester Regiment

Moved into Belgium 13.5.40 and took up positions at Waterloo fighting retreat back to Wormhoute where we...

F.S. Harry Tenny R.A.F

We slept in three tier wooden bunks with a straw mattress on about fifteen bed boards about two feet long...

Prisoner of War: Captured at Anzio

So apparently they wanted to pull away some of the German troops from Montecassino so they put in an...

Journey into the Unknown - Part 45

The only bandages available were of a crepe paper type, the proper bandages were sent to the Russian...

You Must Endure

Joseph and his commrades became prisoners of war in Changi jail, where they and thousands of other...

Wartime Rescue

My Grandfather and Mr Grignani took 5 prisoners at a time by train to the Swiss border. When they reached...

Don't get caught in the Cold

Now we know that conditions in the PoW camps were not that comfortable and one in northern Poland would...

F.Sgt. Harry Tenny

We would also check out and choose a bloke who was termed a "Mucker" A good "Mucker" was...

Through a Teenager's Eyes

I married the day after War was declared to a Royal Horse Guard at Clewer Church Windsor I had wanted to...

Japanese Prisoner of war.

1941, he left Freetown and went to Cape Town and then on to Bombay, where he stayed at a rest camp at...

Dunkirk Diary: 1st Searchlight Battery

The 1st and 2nd S/L Battery formed the 1st S/L Regiment. The 1st S/L regiment had been the AA S/L defence...

Role Reversal

Two British Army doctors were captured in the same battle and taken to a German casualty clearing station...

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...

My Uncle Cyril

My Grandad and therefore Uncle Cyril's dad, was informed of the death and that there were some...

Experience of a POW chapter Fourteen

Sgt Tucks increasing panic attacks created animosity with the so-called care staff and he was transferred...

Frank Conway Prisoner of War

We were there for 3 weeks until Bob and I were captured and taken to Germany to Stallag 4B Prisoner of War...

Long Journey to Freedom

He managed to escape prior to be handed over to the Gestapo and made his way via Yugoslavia to Beirut where...

Free Meat

The local population kept well away from the prisoners but I noticed a young girl asking for chocolate....