Prisoners of War

My Father was a Stranger: Merchant Navy POW

Unlike the Royal Navy and Army, whose wives received pay during their captivity, merchant seamen were...

Partizans

1941 I was 17 WW2 had hit Greece and making its way over to Crete, , the Germans soldiers now occupied the...

Letter Home

On April 4 1945 my fathers Lancaster bomber was shot down over the North sea off the coast of Holland. He...

A Badge for Volunteering: A Miner Turned Down by the RAF

My brother Jack Allard was in the home guard, nearby we had a prisoner of war camp, one of the prisoners...

Not the Best Swap!

So my brother was a prisoner in Italy and we had Italian POW'S on the farm. If you had Italian...

POWs, Mum and me

Of course the adults got involved and after the war was over supervision of the POWs was more relaxed and...

Home for VE Day

I was flying over the channel in a Lancaster bomber at the actual time that Churchill announced victory in...

How I Lost My Brother Harold

My eldest brother, Harold, couldn't wait to join up and enlisted before he received his call-up papers....

A "Thank You" from the Other Side

Having been taken prisoner of war during the campaign in Brittany weeks after D-Day, this then young German...

Prisoner of War of the Japanese

He was sent to Singapore by Churchill and just got there when the Japanese arrived... He was there until...

Potato Picking

Towards the end of the war, the German and Italian POWs were allowed out under escort to work on the local...

Stealing Away

Uncle Robert fought with his fellow aussie soldiers in the Pacific war and was captured by the Japanese......

Walter Hobson's Service in the Forces - Part 8

Other parts to this story can be found at: Pt 1: a4178333 Pt 2: a4178360 Pt 3: a4178388 Pt 4: a4178423 Pt...

Forgotten Volunteers.

In 1940 I was one of the 2.5 million people from the Indian Sub Continent, who volunteered to join the...

Journey into the Unknown - Part 48

These must have been taken from the Lagerfuhrer's headquarters after they had fled, One sentry had only...

Capture at Dunkirk

The following was my maternal grandfathers account of his capture at Dunkirk: A small group of M.Ps...

Hands Across the Water - German POW Friend

When the war ended and my uncle was released, one of these parcels was still in transit and somehow was...

The Aftermath

Bert was a short young man with rosy red apple cheeks and a cheeky George Formby grin... When the Japanese...

My Uncle was a Prisoner of War: In Poland

He was then moved to Stalag V11B, Teschen, Poland and at a later date went to Stalag X11A at Limburg......

Family Matters

She also forecast a second marriage for me, to a P.O.W in Germany and that he would be dressed in grey......

Italian P.O.W.'s

We saw three Italian P.O.W.’s arguing along the road... These Italian P.O.W. waited till we got to...

Harry Brown Prisoner of War

After he was released from Stalag XVIII A and returned to Britain to lead a normal life he then married...

Taken prisoner: Sicily 1943

On July 10 1943 we set off from a port in Egypt and landed on D Day in Cicily, at Syracuse under...

5 Lost Soldiers

We decided to pull back to Lille, picking up a french soldier on the way... The Germans surrounded us, and...

Walter Hobson's Service in the Forces - Part 7

Other parts to this story can be found at: Pt 1: a4178333 Pt 2: a4178360 Pt 3: a4178388 Pt 4: a4178423 Pt...

David Reid M.M.

My dad Mr David Reid was taken prisoner at St Valery in 1940... It was at this hospital that a contact of...