Stories categorised in 'Prisoners of War'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
At the outbreak of the Second World War the Manchesters were assigned to a beach defence role, which...
Sure enough, after the war, Mr Dunning was able to gain a good job as a rep for a pharmaceutical company....
David and his Regiment were eventually sent to High Wycombe in preparation to go to France but after...
Every village, every farm was in ruins.So we left the main road and took to the side roads, got a bit of...
During my time in Burma I realised what a dreadful time the Burmese people had endured merely because they...
Then there was the lounge carriage and another carriage with SS Guards, followed by another flat wagon with...
My father was a chaplin to German POW's in Norton, Stockton-on-Tees... Some letters were opened in...
Emil Eisele was also a soldier — a German prisoner of war who was billeted at Pennylands Camp in...
I have an identical twin brother, John, and in 1940-41 we were both involved in North Africa, Greece and...
Italians and Germans in Trowbridge Toward the end of the war there were new arrivals — prisoners of...
It was during the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940, when a handful of RAF fighter pilots defeated...
We were sailing from Sydney to Wellington, in the Tasman Sea, when attacked by a German converted Merchant...
Between the 5th and 10th of April 1945, I was taken prisoner by Canadian troops north of Arubem, in...
My father, Herbert Thomas Goodchild, known as "Pat" for obscure family reasons, was a member of a...
They got chatting and Roy asked Jean to write to him when he returned to his regiment. Roy and Jean married...
In 1939 War broke out, and Able Seaman Bowman was one of the crew of a Royal Naval destroyer, escorting...
Thomas Beattie born in 1896 was a boy entry to the army and educated by them at Fort Rowner Gosport, and...
In March 1945 we, the 1st Battalion, the Devonshire Regiment,had crossed the Irrawaddy and were pushing the...
My Aunt had recieved a telegram to say her husband Alex Sutton had been lost at sea following the sinking...
The Italian soldiers were very different to the German prisoners in Skelton and Malton where I was working....
The prisoners searched the cupboards and found food... He had crashed when bombing over Germany....
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