Prisoners of War

Bob Barugh's story (part 2)

There after one days stay at Siniang was taken by power boat to Singkef island at that place there was R.N....

John Mallen escaped POW in Italy

A few weeks later there was an order sent out by the Germans that said that Italians harbouring POWs would...

A German POW remembers

Mr Morgan asked me and my friend to have Christmas dinner with him... Not only was there Mr and Mrs Morgan...

Part II of Reginald Cleaver's Extraordinary War Experiences: After the Crash

The Luftwaffe officer was saying if I was an R.A.F. airman, he wanted to interrogate me. Some time...

Prisoners of War

Incidentally, I remember, one lad was a bit slow getting onto the truck and an Italian gave him a hefty...

Capo Campo Part 2

The Tenente standing at the side of the parade during the count now intervened to curtly tell the Corporale...

My Father’s War

He helped to care for allied prisoners of war, French civilians and even the wounded Germans that had...

Some of My Memories of the War

I had a good friend working with me, as a mate on board ship, and he started to be sick, ill, and...

re Camp of Silence and Death

The Senior RAF officer had given orders that all personnel in the area should visit this prison and it was...

DIARY OF THOMAS MATTHEWS

Dec 17 Left Cape Town for Libya, but convoy received orders and is diverted to Bombay. Sep 06 Left...

But that is another story

She'd been born in Sumatra just as the Japanese were occupying, her father had been sent off to the...

Trip to Japan - 3rd Class

As we landed in Singapore there were Japanese planes overhead — a place we thought was a fortress was...

Raymond and Alice Brassington

This Japanese guard could speak a little English because he had been to Glasgow as a cabin boy, and he said...

Deported from Guernsey to Laufen in Germany in 1942

I was here until 1942, when I had a message, a policeman knocked at the door, accompanied by a German...

Tale of a Die-Hard Sergeant

As described by others on this database, the "Lisbun Maru" was torpedoed by an American submarine...

I wish we'd sat down and talked-too late now

He was taken to Palermo in Sicily, where on a holiday in 1970 he and my mother were sitting in the town...

A POW of the Japanese

The Japanese trucks were full of Chinese boys who had been made to march down towards the sea and then...

Relative of Japanese POW 605 squadron

Our squadron, 605 County of Warwich managed to escape and board a boat back to Batavia, Java. From Yokohama...

The Battle for Crete - a young Cretan phones to say 'thank-you'

In 1940 the battery set sail to the North Atlantic, Freetown, Durban, Alexandria and Crete. The surviving...

east lancs regiment in burma

From Nagasaki, Sidney was taken to a hospital in San Francisco, USA where he was treated for diseases such...

Stalag VIIIB - 1940-45

At the German border, we were put on cattle trucks, and I was sent to Stalag VIIIB. A friend of mine who...

A Prisoner of War’s Diary from Stalag VIIIB — 1943 January to March

March 10, 1943 — Wednesday Germans have evacuated the town of Ort Sytschewka, Russia. Germans...

A Prisoner of War’s Diary from Stalag VIIIB — October to December - 1941

October 08, 1941 - Wednesday German officer gave his men a lecture for being dirty, said the Englishmen...

In Prison in Guernsey during the German Occupation.

And we were then marched back to the prison and straight into the office where the officer there said...

Interview with John James Moss

Jjm: well we had terrible rations we got ½ a pint of water and either rice, wheat or barley and for...

prisoners of war part 2

After a few days leave, a card arrived from some Army office with a travel voucher to report to...