Prisoners of War

A PoWs Needs

Bacccy cake and chocolate he deemed as luxuries and wanted all that could be got through to him, though he...

Memories of a Prisoner of War Camp

The sudden blackouts when you stand A raging torrent of commands, Sleeping in snow in open spaces Guards...

Prisoners From Edan Camp help out at Farms

Some of the first prisoner of War to come to the Satellite camp near Malton were Italians. Ebberston, the...

Stalag 8b

In July 1943 whilst a prisoner in Stalag 8b, a friend and I escaped through a short tunnel dug beneath our...

Wartime Memories

Shown are Mr. David Parker, Mr. Ralph Parker and Mr. Raymond Parker. Raymond Parker served with the Royal...

Retreat to Dunkirk: With the Royal West Kents

Like all other soldiers caught in France, he was one of those who retreated back towards Dunkirk and, being...

Frenchman in Germany

After France capitulated in 1940, he got engaged with Yvette but was soon to be sent to Germany in order to...

Experience of a POW chapter Twelve

I felt very fortunate, after hearing of others misfortunes as POW's after the war where prisoners...

A Prisoner of War Camp on our Doorstep

Cyril and Ruth Sherwood who live in my village, remember the happy social events at the POW camp during the...

Survival Through The War.

My Grandad, the person this story is about, was at Dunkirk. After Dunkirk, my Grandad stayed with his rank...

Farming At Norton Near Worcester

ELIZABETH TROUGHTON'S parents were farmers at Norton near Worcester, but her three brothers were all...

Journey into the Unknown - Part 40

Whilst in Camp 66 at Capua there were a number of Sudanese with their Sgt.Major and each morning they could...

The POW from Stalag Luft 3

The Master of Baliol College, Oxford, had set up a relief organisation to send parcels to POWs... On their...

Prisoner of War for Three Years

He was taken prisoner of war in Toubrock, N. Africa by the Italian Forces and spent some time iin a...

War and the Farmer - The Home Front

In 1939 my grandparents were farmers in the little village of Calthwaite, in Cumbria... German and Italian...

World War 2 Survivors Interview

After a few weeks in the camp Mr. Pipitone was asked if he wanted to go to another camp but they...

Brother Jack

When I was a kid of about 8/9 I had 4 brothers in the Navy, Jack, Mick, Dave, Jimmy... A few days...

Joe and Grace

First of all I had got engaged to his brother but broke it off and started going out with Joe... His...

Halifax Downed in Channel

With considerable skill, the captain - Sgt Bob Dibben - ditched "N fer Nuts" on a very rough sea...

The POWs and Us

Like so many families we were evacuated from the city to get us out of harms' way for the duration.I...

Captured at Dunkirk

As the remnants of our shattered army was arriving in British ports my father received the dreaded telegram...

Soldiers on Holiday: In Northern Ireland

William James Nevin joined the Irish guards in 1928 at the age of sixteen - he lied about his age. After...

Home and Away

Reg Davies joined the Territorial Army in the 1930s then went onto become a soldier and bandsman in the...

Remembering My Dad, by Jean Nixon (nee Ward)

My mother heard nothing about him until a letter arrived in September 1942 to say that he had been in...

The Russians Are Coming

One day he went to the toilet and found the old lady from the farm had hung herself from the toilet...

An Arabian Night

Me and six other soldiers who did not fancy being POW when the South African General in command of the...