Prisoners of War

Meeting with the Germans

Essex saw a lot of air battles; enemy aircraft were as familiar as our own Spitfires and Hurricanes, but...

Prisoner of War Stalag IXc

His mother received two telegrams - first one saying "missing believed dead" then 10 weeks later...

Rearguard at Dunkirk

He apparently had to try to hold off the German advance towards Dunkirk to give the rest of the army a...

H.R.H

One of the officers who had served a tour of duty in the Palace pointed out that her eighteenth birthday...

Memories of the Merseyside Blitz in 1941 by Shirley Cawthra (nee Beardwell)

German civilians were apparently so incensed by RAF bombings that they hung RAF POWs from trees... I...

Prisoners of War in Libya

My father, usually known as Kelly, was helping to look after a camp of Italian and German prisoners of...

George Remembers Some of the Prisoners of War UK

I remember the German and Austrian prisoners who made toys for the children of the village... Two...

A Bride's Story

I was then evacuted to Chart Sutton in kent where I no lived with my mother and brother's and sister....

Stalag 344 and RSM Sherriff -- "Camp Leader"

"After being taken prisoner with the remnants of the Battalion, the germans appointed him 'Camp...

The Taichu Memorial

After the surrender in Singapore, I was in the River Valley camp before spending 3 weeks on a hell ship...

Dunkirk: A Royal Scots POW

This was indeed the case with my father and he spent the next five years as a prisoner of war in Upper...

My Great Grandad The POW

I don't know that much about my Great Grandads time in the army as a normal serviceman or like many a...

Life As A Prisoner Of War

I was released in 1944, when the Russian Tank Army arrived in East Germany, and I stayed with the Russians...

One of the First POW's

During his time as a prisoner of war, Jack did many types of hard labour, some of the jobs he had to...

Escape from Stalag Luft Eight

My uncle was a prisoner of war at Stalag Luft 8. He was one of two prisoners with the surname...

FIVE YEARS IN STALAG VIIIB, LAMSDORF

HOWEVER, ON THE 26TH JUNE 1940, MY MOTHER RECEIVED INFORMATION FROM THE GERMAN AUTHORITIES THAT MY FATHER...

My time in Germany: Memories of the German Army

His reply was that he was not a spy for the Germans and he didn't intend starting as a British spy....

Welcome Home

I went to fetch groceries including eggs One day as I walked down Penkhull bank to Wharf Street I saw two...

The Rat Catcher

I was a teenager living in Foresly Park near Daventry in Northants. My dad was employed by the War Ag, and...

Escape by Train

I was flown to Italy and put in a POW camp in the “ Toe “ of Italy. When Italy fell I...

My Family's War

Her brother, James Mc Afee served as a stoker on HMS repulse and later HMS Prince of Wales and was sank in...

My Father-in-Law

My name is Sue and along with my husband David am trying to build a history of my father-in-laws...

Memories from Yorkshire

One night while all us six kids where in bed my mother shouted upstairs telling us to get back to bed and...

Japanese POW

I trained in England and was sent to the Western Desert before being posted to the Far East where I was...

Something I was told by My Father

He came from Newcastle upon Tyne, and was a bricklayer. I often wondered how my father - a bricklayer from...

The Blackout

Entering in thro' the Ministers Vestry - I had to walk the full length of the building to get to the...