Prisoners of War

Tom Barker's school days

I painted it and it dried and I went out side and Dad ducked as I swiped with the sword and he...

POW memories of Prossen

Around April the Germans pushed us out of Athens and we moved to Crete, where I did the job of Sergeant and...

Elswick Hopper Cycle and Motor Company

Having written my name and address on the paper I departed the office and sauntered to the door the office...

The tale of the Yorkshire Welsh Guardsman

On the 15th January 1945 the Russians started their big offensive and the Germans decided to evacuate us...

A Prisoner of War’s Diary from Stalag VIIIB — 1944 April to June

June 15, 1944 — Thursday German newspaper today gives the name of first prisoner of war to be...

The Story of a Prisoner of War Part II

From here Mills went aboard an old British Freighter, named by the Japs, The Osaka Maru, with five hundred...

The Elswick Hopper Motor Cycle and Motor Company

When I explained to her that there was this lad at school who took a delight in making everyone's life...

Elswick Hopper Cycle Works

When I explained to her that there was this lad at school who took a delight in making everyone's life...

Escape from Jinsen Chesan P.O.W. CAMP, KOREA and other memories - Part 1

LT. MOORE and SGT. BOSWELL'S plan was to go over the Guard Fence behind No.4 Hut. LT. MOORE was in No.2...

The Army That Didn't March On It's Stomach (Part Four)

The Army boys are staying behind but the poor old RAF have got to march away. Got a fresh loaf of bread...

A Glass of Beer

There is a famous Biergarten in Munich, where contented German Buergers and visiting foreigners, sitting on...

Elswick Hoppers Part 3

"Yea, that's the one," said Fred "D'yu' reckon she might?" asked Jim "Oi...

"Always Read The Small Print" Chapter Three

On completion of the destruction of all our weapons, transport,food stocks, and anything of use to an...

The Army That Didn't March On It's Stomach (Part Five)

Sit out in the sun and later the old guard brings us a bucketful of soup from the German Red Cross....

The Korfanty Family at War. Part 3 Mauthausen-Gusen Political Prisoner No 48938, Tadeusz Korfanty

Of a place where my Uncle Ryszard, at the age of 25 and close to death from starvation on 20th January...

Lester Schrenk WW2 Airman poet

After his interrogation at Dulag Luft, the German Intelligence Centre ten miles north of Frankfurt, he was...

1,678 Days and Nights as a POW

Fortunately my Grandfather could speak German and luckily they avoided being put into prison clothes. One...

Diary of a Prisoner of War

Original six plus four S.A.A.F. and two more R.A.F. Parcel combine now Harry, Laurie, Johnnie and self......

POW IN UPPER SILESIA AND THE LONG MARCH BACK TO GERMANY AND FREEDOM

POW IN UPPER SILESIA AND THE LONG MARCH BACK TO SOUTH GERMANY AND FREEDOM BY: Jonathan Wilkinson PEOPLE IN...

A Prisoner of War’s Diary from Stalag VIIIB — 1944 January to March

Bed p.m. January 17, 1944 — Monday Today bring us good news from Russia “Germans give out on...

The Army That Didn't March On It's Stomach (Part Three)

Jack working in the cookhouse today, a good thing because he does a deal with the German civvies and brings...

The Korfanty Family at War. Part 2— Tadeusz Korfanty, My Fathers Story

My father survived the horrors of torture, imprisonment, beatings, being taken to Berlin with his father...

My Service Life in the Suffolk Regiment Part Two - Far East

Several working parties had gone to Singapore to Harpy Valley and Bukit Timah, clearing the streets of...

A Prisoners Tale Retold Chapter 2.

The Germans never realised that the roof space extended over the cell and the confined prisoner was...

"They That Take the Sword..."

Near Moukden there was a bridge by which the Japanese railway line passed over the Chinese line on which...

Escape from Rangoon Jail 1945

We were never told the reason for this march by our captors, and I assumed afterwards that we were to be...