Prisoners of War

My POW Experience

I was in the first 5th Essex Territorial Army before the war and we went all over the British Isles before...

Postcard Not Sent: From a POW in Poland

I am a son of Edward Duncan Walker, East Lancs Regiment,, one of those POWs, who was captured at Dunkirk...

Friendship

Grandad kept chickens, geese, cows, goats and pigs, he also had a small allotment and orchard... He showed...

A Yorkshire Schoolgirl

By 1947 I was bolder as asked permission to sell poppies at “the Camp” – this was a POW...

Truth about "River Kwai"

The bridge over the River Kwai wasn't bombed by the American Air Force until 1945....

Jean's Memories of Growing Up

During the war we had German prisoner's at Arbury Hall who volunteered to rebuild the church totally....

Lewis Edwards - Forced March

Belgard Gross Pobloth 16 Gross Pobloth Dargeslaff 31 Dargeslaff Zurkwitz 24 Zurkwitz Revenow 22 Revenow...

In Honour of my father, Frederick George Pidgeon

He was in Limoon Barracks, Stanley Penninsular, and Stonecutters Island, and he served alongside many of...

Mr Brave Father

My father was transferred from her to a prisoner of war camp and it is from here that he started writing a...

Not a Lot of War: A Rifleman's Story

They were landed on the beach, and during the evacuation helped many injured soldiers to get shipped out on...

Evacuee: North London to Mickfield

When the V2 rockets started coming over my sister, brother and I were packed off to Suffolk to a village...

My First Prison Camp - Part 9

A few days after my release from the prison camp, I obtained a detailed account respecting the escape from...

Bombing Our Land: The Military Camp in Trawsfynydd

Henry, the prisoner of war from Germany was always very tidy, and every day he used to take his bed linen...

From Farm Boy, to Soldier, to Prisoner of War; the Memoirs of Alf Davey

From Blackburn we went to Ross-on-Wye, then on 29th October 1941 we sailed from Liverpool on a ship called...

Mistreatment by the Japs

The Japanese controlled nearly ¾ of the world's product of Quinine, but they wouldn't give it...

Smiler's War - The Forgotten heroes of Bolougne

So with one rifle and 23 shovels, Smiler and his 22 army colleagues and many others went to France to face...

156 Squadron,Nuremburg Raid and POW

My father, Squadron Leader Philip Robert Goodwin joined the RAF when he lived in Plymouth in 1940... Philip...

Charley Pocock's War Chapter 8.2

On the morning of the 23rd March 1942 we moved, I looked quite smart in my new suit, my greatcoat was...

Rural Cheshire In Wartime

As we lived in the countryside you may think that we had a quiet time but we had a few bombs in...

From Farm Boy to Soldier, to Prisoner of War; the Memoirs of Alf Davey PART III

On our return, it was back to the railway again, moving up country to Tamuang.Here we had to build huts for...

Prisoner of war (POW)

Prisoner of war my grandad was very young when he joined the army in 1937. but very quickly he was captured...

Farming and POWs

This initially housed German prisoners, but after about 1943, they were replaced by Italians. In fact after...

From Flushing to Stalag XIB

My father Thomas Hook from St. Boswells was in D Coy 5th KOSB and went to the low countries on 21st Oct...

Prisoner of War parcels

These had to be brought up on trolleys in a lift, one of the main attractions of the job as far as...

Family War Memories

Dad said that he survived the army and the Prisoner of War camp because as the oldest child in his family...

From Dunkirk to Singapore

As the village where Dad lived is on the banks of the River Tweed and the main occupation at that time was...