Prisoners of War

JOHN CLOSE - JAPANESE POW Part II

After two weeks in quarantine John was sent by boat down the River Kwai to a camp at Chung Kai where any...

A Prisoner of War’s Diary from Stalag VIIIB — January to June - 1941

Human nature makes us fight, Only when we think we're right, When your fight or quarrels o'er, You...

A Prisoner of War’s Diary from Stalag VIIIB — 1940

On September 3, 1939, the day England and France declared war on Germany at the start of World War 2,...

Ditching at St Ouen's Bay: Cont.

About the third or fourth day, the German officer said "If you will not tell me, then I will tell...

My life during 3 1/2 years as a Japanese POW - Part 3

We had no food or water at all , standing under the burning sun , then at 4 o'clock we were taken...

A Prisoner of War’s Diary from Stalag VIIIB — 1942

Report just been received that an English prisoner has been shot for assaulting a German officer. Orders...

A Prisoner of War’s Diary from Stalag VIIIB — 1943 October to December

Latest news according to German wireless is that fifteen divisions of English and American troops have...

Guardsman Harrison’s War Story — Part Two

Bert was interrogated by the Russians and one thought he was a German and threatened him at knife point....

Experiences as a Far Eastern Prisoner of War 1942 - 1945

Food much better but attitude of Tarson officers very poor indeed. Nips issue Red Cross food, small amount...

Olaf Chapman Part Three

The Japanese soon had the prisoners working. The guards were Korean, not Japanese....

Memories of CPO Writer Clifford M Cook

In Clifford's case this was work detail until sometime in September 1942 when the Japanese decided they...

The Long March to Freedom

After the 250 mile journey by sea piled below the decks in the filthy holds of the rusty tramp steamer...

The Beginning of the End - Part Five

"Guest" of the Japanese 60 years ago.

Unbeknown to us, the Japanese were sending thousands of prisoners of war to build what was to become known...

One man's struggle in the hands of the Nazis

He was a proper Nazi, and was sometimes worse than the Germans, he would be allowed to eat with them"....

The Beginning of the End - Part One

The following is an account by the late Mr. John Lesley Sorsby of the 1st Parachute Regiment of the march...

Len's War as a POW in Austria

The parcels proved to be good propaganda for us, as the Germans had been lead to believe our country was...

A GUNNER AND A PRISONER OF WAR (STALAGS AND THE LONG MARCH) by Doug Hawkins: Part 2 of 3: Stalag 7a, Stalag 344 and The Long March

Well, it wasn't a village, it was where the Germans had a big warehouse and we didn't know what was...

My Time in the Enniskillen Fusiliers & POW camp

The German guards, them was auld boys from the First War. John McMaster then, was saying “the Germans...

My War as a Prisoner Part 2

I was captured by the Germans in May 1940 and sent to Stalag 1A. Some were loading and unloading coal at...

My Story of Capture during world war 11

We had to march all night, across the desert, until one of our Majors went to the German Officer at the...

Roland Mitchell (then 89064 Private Mitchell, RASC and POW no. 4714)

In the early days of the war, 1940/41, marching German troops used to sing about “Fahren Gegen...

Terrys' War (4) - Hakodate Prison Camp

I was to spend the next 2 years and 3 months working on the docks at Hakodate; followed by 6 months digging...

My First Escape - and recapture! Part 2

I was in the 3rd Battalion of the Coldstream guards and I had been sent to Palestine and then the western...

Memories of a 2nd Lieutenant captured in Tunisia and life as a P.O.W. - Part Two

Whilst I was in Oflag 5A I was ‘Putz’ the German in a production of ‘Rookery Nook’....

THE CRUISE AND REPATRIATION

Before leaving the boat a Jap guard beat my dad up with his rifle for talking to the native engine room...