Prisoners of War

Tiger Dicks Story

Dad was born in Leicester in 1919... Other Italian soldiers began arriving and Dad was taken prisoner....

Prisoner of War during WW2

He and many other prisoners were marched through France, Belgium and Holland, then placed on a boat and...

'They Just Didn't Know Any Better' (P.O.W of the Japs.)

My brother Len who was eight years older than me, was captured by the Japs almost immediately on...

Prisoner of War 1940-1945 - by Lilian Tomlinson Hart

When the Russians began to invade Germany the Germans drove the Prisoners from Poland to Germany... After a...

JAPANESE TORTURE TECHNIQUES

The Japanese soldiers, because of the corporal punishment given to their own soldiers for minor acts of...

I make a new acquaintance - "Daisy."

First experiences of West Africa

We arrived at Accta, in the Gold Coast,. As there was no dock there we had to go ashore via “mammy...

Food at Stalag X1B

As a bonus, each hut in turn would be allocated potato peelings to supplement the food, and these helped to...

Fathers Story

The officer in charge allowed us to inspect the Russian and British ones but not the Tiger, although he...

Hospitality of Japanese Emperor

The story was originally recorded by members of the Brampton Museum Newcastle Under Lyme I was a member of...

The Lingering Nightmares

Death came very slowly to prisoners in the hands of the Japanese... The death rate in a Japanese prison...

"IS THAT THE DEATH CART RUMBLING BY ?"

Edward Barrett's Wartime Memories as a POW

In 1943 Edward was on the Greek island of Lobos when, because of an ammunition shortage Edward and his...

Shot at Dawn

Sgt Ned Reay of the Northumberland Fusiliers 9th Battalion had planned an escape from the Tarkie Lin camp,...

Prisoner on Crete

What we had to fight with on Crete: half of the chaps didn't have rifles, those with rifles didn't...

Excerpts from the Diaries of the Reverend Dr R Stuart Louden

The WWII diaries of the Reverend R S Louden are hled by the Trustees of the RAChD Museum. Reverend Doctor R...

The Life of a Prisoner of War on the River Kwai

They were made to work 13 hours a day, seven days a week on very little food but with constant beatings and...

Stalag III and Death March

My father WO Jack Green served as a gunner/wireless operator on Blenheim bombers.He was shot down over the...

Your father in Changi

Whilst in prison the prisoners decided to hold a darts championship between all the Japanese prisoners in...

Stealing to Survive

With this background it is possible to understand why prisoners turned out to be big rogues, if it was...

Prisoner

In February 1942 whilst travelling to Singapore we were captured by the Japanese and became prisoners of...

Jack Booth's Story

I was taken prisoner at Singapore in October 1943 and sent to work on the Burmese railway. Mine went septic...

I was a Japanese POW

While a prisoner of war of the Japanese for 3 1/2 years, aircraftsman William Mundy's weight dropped...

"JERRY WITH HIS PANTS DOWN"

A group of German prisoners of war at the Whiteways Cider Works at Hele near Bradninch, by lorry from their...

A prisoner of war

He was also on the march that the Germans took various prisoners of war in a large circle to avoid the...

Great Uncle J Arrol Crerar POW