Thailand

'The Will To Live': Chapter 29 - Vinegar, Gore & Farewells

For the remainder of my Tamarkan days I spent about half my time working on jobs about the camp, including...

Building the Bridge over the River Kwai

Captain Gripper in our platoon took his men in their tanks through long grass where the Japanese were...

The Bridge

Along the embankment leading to the bridge, soil was being carried in rough baskets, tipped and stamped...

A Japanese POW and the Bridge Over the River Kwai

Going into Singapore we were attacked by the Japanese aeroplanes up the Malaka straights which was not very...

'The Will To Live': Chapter 22 - A Taste of What Was to Come

At the well it was a case of no bucket no water, so once again as the only one apart from our...

A Trip Around the World

The people who had travelled north from Singapore with us told us we had to build a railway. Lots of boats...

My Wartime Service and Experiences. Part 1

Japanese forces advanced down the whole of Malaya,Our Royal Engineers blew up the causeway which connected...

Japanese Prisoner of War

I trained at Gorleston, Yarmouth and all round there, then we went to Cambridge for a week, then they sent...

An Adventure

Cynics might say that the 18th division was delivered to Singapore just in time to suffer the humiliation...

A Gay Soldier's Story

PETER TATCHELL tells the moving story of a gay soldier during WW2, PRIVATE DUDLEY CAVE. Having risked his...

War Service 'An Unusual Experience' Conclusion

Whilst the Siamese had joined the Japanese in declaring war on Britain they had not declared war on the...

A Story About James Roe as Told by his Wife June Roe.

This is story about my husband - James Ramsay Roe. And Chubb asked him if he remembered about a Librartor...

The Infamous Railway

Lucky escapes Richard had another lucky escape from unexploded bombs in the River Kwai, which are still...

My Wartime Service and Experiences. Part 2

Our train proceeded over the causeway, the doors of the railway truck were left open and we were able to...

You Must Endure

Joseph and his commrades became prisoners of war in Changi jail, where they and thousands of other...

Minesweeping Around Burma

We were there to pick up a Jap officer and NCO to show us where the minefields were ready for landing the...

From Farm Boy to Soldier, to Prisoner of War; the Memoirs of Alf Davey PART II

We were marched on again to another camp, Wompoh, and we had to leave more lads by the wayside to die. The...

THE UNCLE I NEVER KNEW

Mother's youngest brother, Arthur Gordon Gadsby, joined the Sherwood Foresters, eventually being sent...

From Farm Boy to Soldier, to Prisoner of War; the Memoirs of Alf Davey PART IV

Stopping at Port Saez, one of my regiment said his family had recieved a telegram to say he was missing,...

The Well Dressed Thai

Needless to say well-dressed Thais were not very thick on the ground around the jungle camps. One day I...

Truth about "River Kwai"

The bridge over the River Kwai wasn't bombed by the American Air Force until 1945....

From Farm Boy to Soldier, to Prisoner of War; the Memoirs of Alf Davey PART III

On our return, it was back to the railway again, moving up country to Tamuang.Here we had to build huts for...

TONCHAN POW CAMP, THAILAND

My friend and I whilst working near the river, had noticed that the Japanese in their cookhouse, which...

Sink the Haguro

This action was the last major Naval action of the second world war, often called the forgotten fleet as...

Listening to the BBC World Service

My uncle was captured at Singapore and was sent to work on the Japanese railway line at Sonkurai... It was...

The Ouija Board

It took a further number of sessions in which the members of the audience brought along proof positive that...