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Four Years a Prisoner Of War

From Crete I was taken on a Cargo Ship, down in a hold to Greece and ended up on an Italian hospital...

Sandakan P.O.W

This account was related to Denis Price of the BBC People,s War Team, the BBC Open Centre Hull, by Mr. Alf...

CRETE 1941/42

At the age of 17 WW2 had hit Greece and making its way over to Crete, , the Germans soldiers now occupied...

The Meals in Camp

About a third of the cup was the grounds, well after we'd drunk the coffee, we ate the grounds as...

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Christmas 1944.

This Officer looked at our table in the corner and walked slowly around the lager,saying nothing, until he...

It Had Seemed A Small Thing (Wrenbury Remembers P.47)

But it was no small thing he did that night; Brave guards 'gainst vengeful foe who still would fight,...

Message for Gillicon for Story with photo

I'm the daughter of Arthur Evans, the author of "Sojourn in Silesia", which some say is the...

Crete 1941/42

1941/42 At the age of 17 WW2 had hit Greece and making its way over to Crete, , the Germans soldiers now...

A POW's lonely homecoming

In this section he talked about the homecoming of his younger brother Charles, a Japanese prisoner of war....

Memories of a POW

We went to America, then to Singapore. On the way to Singapore we still didn't know where we were...

Silent Night

Shortly after the war ended we were ordered to pick up prisoners from Burma and bring them back to...

My memories as a POWicon for Story with photo

On 1st March 1943 I was captured by the Germans and transferred to the Italians, who brought me by boat to...

A father rememberedicon for Story with photo

John Brown was a soldier who served with the Green Howards but unfortunately he was captured and taken to a...

At the Fall of Singapore (1)

At the fall of Singapore, records of the involvement of the local as volunteers were burnt to prevent...

Repatriated.

My name is Colin Watling and my late uncle John Watling was in the T.A.in 1938... My Dad living in Hope...

Prisoner of War

He was in the Royal Signals and was taken prisoner at the fall of Tobruk by the Panzer Divisions of the...

POW Camps

Around the Dover area there were several POW camps, both German and Italian. The Italian camps were quite...

Our Bit for the War Effort by Donald Greaves

The Italians were an idle lot, six of them were pushing a tub loaded with stone... We did have great fun...

My experience in the Territorial Army

On the 1st September, I went to Dunkirk, I was then shipped out where I went to Singapore, Canada and...

German POW's produced Food For Usicon for Story with photo

I vividly remember him stooping to come through the door of the living room lifting Max like he was a small...

My Grandparents in WW2

My great grandparents, Yap Kuan and Lucy Choo, were invovled in the Second World War. Their brutality...

Red Cross Parcels

It took some months before Red Cross parcels started to arrive and it was these which helped him to survive...

Japaneses POWicon for Story with photo

Japanese POW's These are the details of my Papa's time as a p.o.w. of the Japanese, sadly he's...

4 Different Armies ?

When Germany overran Poland, he was 'Landed-Gentry' civilian and promptly interned in some...

The Death March

In 1940 I was taken prisoner, aged 19 in St. Valery in France, just outside Dunkirk. The newspapers...

Prisoners on the marchicon for Story with photo

Kate Berriman Transcribed by: Alan Brigham. I later learned it was German Prisoners of War being marched...

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