Prisoners of War

Diamond Wedding (June 2nd 2005) - 6 years POW could not keep my parents apart. Part 1

When we went through the towns in Belgium the people cheered us, but it was a different tune when we came...

Lawrence's War Memoirs Part 2

Before the war, Burma was a British colony and had forestry companies to harvest the teak trees, and...

A Teenager at War — Part 3

When the time came to leave this place, I was dejected to find out that I would be leaving on my own...

A Prisoner of War's Story: Part 2

Though the Japanese helped and fed themselves to the food of these parcels, there were times when they...

Kenneth S Burns: My War - Memories of a Prisoner of War - Part III

10/5/45 No. 12 Camp Miata village, Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyushu Island, South Japan. Three weeks to...

Prisoner of the Germans - 5 - The March and Release

Russian prisoners were treated abominably by the Germans, and they did not have the protection of the Red...

'The Will to Live': Chapter 35 - Wounded Soldiers, Aussie Friend, and Twice Poisoned

A party of Japs appeared from the station hut carrying buckets of rice, which they placed beside the train,...

An “extra-ordinary” soldier - WWII Memoirs from Dunkirk to Stalag XVIII C — Part 5

It was Christmas Eve 1942 and the start of what turned our to be almost 4 years confinement in POW camps...

My Dads Reluctant Story. Chapter 2

Two of the crew were missing, John Anderson, our wireless operator, and our special German speaking...

"Always Read the Small Print" Chapter Six

A Tourist Bureau had found the eldest daughter and son, and gave me their address and telephone number,...

Prisoner Of War Story/ Gordon Highlanders Part 3

Another British fellow, Cabey, was working on the same lines as myself for getting away, and eventually we...

A Rhodesian Pilot's Story - Chapter 4 - The Long March

The general expectation among the prisoners was that soon we would be liberated by the Russian army, a...

Prisoner of the Germans - 1 - Capture at Anzio

PRISONER OF THE GERMANS Prologue....

Ben Waters: Six years in the RNVR.

Ben, as a Flotilla Officer, travelled on board the ‘A'6, which was captained by Lieutenant John...

Prisoner of the Germans - 2 - Stalag VII

These parcels together with the rations from the Germans and what we could obtain by bartering with...

Tom's Story -Part 2

We spent some time in Oran and Algiers and in the latter Port we were subject to one of the heaviest air...

An Interrogator's Life (Part 2)

I had been with 10th Division for only a few days, when an Italian in semi-uniform presented himself at my...

Tommy Scott My Memories as a F.E.P

Depart Ambon for Japan early 1944 via Changi Singapore, Manilla, Formosa. Some of us put into Civilian...

A Soldier's Reminiscences of World War 2

Eventually I, with my two mates Colin McDonald, the Aussie, and Ralph Green, joined a 24 strong working...

Two Wars -Part One

They landed in Algiers, Morocco and Casablanca- the aim being to trap the German army in Tunisia... The...

Diary of KR Brant RAF 349 Squadron and POW

Quarter parcel issued - had it for tea all except a little marg, Klim and coffee and peanut butter -good...

Experience of a POW chapter nine

It did worry us during our short stop over in Germany seeing flights of German bombers passing overhead and...

To Singapore and beyond

Like thousands of other prisoners my father was put to work on the infamous “Birma railway”,...

Charley Pocock's War Chapter 7

I tried to sleep in the lorry but couldn't owing to the cold and there being very little room so I got...

Escape Part One

To explain the next events it is necessary to mention two of the people who figure in the episode, one the...

A Midsummer's Night Dip in the Baltic Chapter 3

Sources: Logbook of Sgt M Crapper, 57 Squadron The Bomber Command War Diaries by Martin Middlebrook &...