Prisoners of War

Aberdonian's suffering as a Japanese PoW

I travelled back from Japan via Canada and New York and sailed into Southampton on the 20th November aboard...

My Experience as a POW

The guy who was interviewing me —a German, used to live in Brighton and also he told me that my...

The Locksmith, Pat Perry

The Locksmith Colditz Castle, the renowned prison kept by the Germans for special, troublesome prisoners,...

VJ Day August15th. 1945

When the war ended in Europe,May 1945,I was still in Germany,a former Prisoner of War,liberated by Russian...

JAPANESE INTERNEE AND INTERPRETER

So in Summer of 1938 we said goodbye to Holland and set sail for the Dutch East Indies. And so we arrive...

The Locksmith

He was the Naval Liaison Officer to the General commanding the Dutch Forces when the Germans invaded...

JAPANESE TORTURE

It was a wonderful family life for years but at the start of the Second World War, they found that when...

'In the Shadow of the Red Sun'

Originally I had intended to write an account of my experiences in Lampersari Camp, using Lennie's...

From Changi to Tollesbury

Food was scare but sometimes we were lucky and managed to catch a snake or bullfrog or find orange peel or...

Memories After the Battle of Crete

At the end of the Battle of Crete, we were abandoned by our own officers at Suda Bay and told to get...

A PRISONER IN SIAM

We had been on home leave in 1939 but by mid 1940 there were anxieties about Japanese intentions and my...

Hell Hath No Fury

For instance,one day when German fighters attacked our fishing boats in the North Sea - legitimate enough,...

PoW band's musical joke on their German captors

My father Alfred 'Archie' Derrick, also known as 'Bean' served in the "Glorious...

In my Father’s Footsteps

All prisoners who were captured in Singapore were marched to Changi being beaten as they went and from...

ex Japanese P.O.W

Both John Franken and his wife Sonja were POWs during the Second World War. John Franken is pictured here...

My time in a Japanese POW camp

I was then taken back to Singapore where I worked on the docks doing general labouring, then in July I went...

A Proper Prison Camp

In the morning, when everybody came down to the toilet the Indians had a religious belief that they had to...

Memories of a Prisoner-of-War

We were sent to work in Thailand on the ‘Bridge’ and the ‘Death Railway’ and when...

The Sandakan to Ranau Death March

Figures vary, but are generally reckoned as, 2500 Australian and 700 R.A.F, Japanese prisoners of war, left...

Christmas 1944

He was a signaller and was out mending a line with some other soldiers - Meeds, Carlton and G.G....

The Experiences of a Prisoner of War

Later in 1943 I was involved in the Battle of Leros, one of the Dodecanese Islands where we fought for many...

Sid Jarvis - Crowborough

The Germans made first breakthrough and I was taken prisoner. The Germans obeyed the Geneva Convention...

Brother Jimmy’s Stalag War

When he left school, Jimmy got a job as a “Yellow Belly”, couriers for the London banks so...

POW - The Burma/Thailand Railway

At 20 years Albert joined the regular army and reached the rank of Sergeant in the 9th battalion...

alt! Who goes there

Emil Eisele was also a soldier - A German prisoner of war who was billeted at Pennylands Camp in Auchinleck...

P.O.W. Poem of an Actual Event.

Methinks of mein man on der Rusky front” hevink it off mit a Rusky bit” “So I vill hetch...