Malaya

Serving on "H.M.S. Volage" in the East Indies Fleet 1944 - 45 by Leslie Atkinson

Back in Durban, another member of our flotilla had arrived – “H.M.S. Virago” for repairs...

The Sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse

No-one seems to have heard of the awful event of 10 December 1941, when HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse...

Burma & Malaysia

When the Japanese attacked Burma their lines of communication were widely stretched... After what had...

Alex Walker

As days became weeks, weeks into months, and finally months into years, Alex's parents and friends...

Eric Robinson's Story

Now in Java each little village has its own set of drums so they can pass messages to each other to tell...

H.M.S Relentless (chapter 2) The Immediate Aftermath after the Cessation of Hostilities 1945

Written by Kenneth Waterson telegraphist as observed from the R class destroyer H.M.S Relentless at sea in...

A Teenager's Memories of Wartime Penang by Cheng Bee Parker

There were in the early occupation days, horrific tales of Japanese cruelty, of rape, which threw all...

Fred's Journey, Part 2: Escape, then Capture by the Japs!

The Japs started to land where we were in Sumatra... We did two or three ops, using Dutch 200kg bombs that...

Abie's War: 1st Battalion Manchester Regimentt

At the outbreak of the Second World War the Manchesters were assigned to a beach defence role, which...

Toft's Reunited.

Dad and his 11 brothers and sisters were born in Malaysia, his parents having being posted there from...

Teenage Memories of World War 2: Part 3

In April 1944 the Japanese mounted a big offensive in the Naga Hilla in Assam, crossing the Indian frontier...

Tweedale's War Part 6

By 7 AM the two remaining pipers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders were playing the troops of the...

15 years in uniform chapter 5

A dog and handler came to Sungei Siput for a test, and I was chosen to take them out on a 1...

Tweedale's War Part 7

The next morning 700 Japanese parachutists descended on Palembang and all day a hot battle was fought for...

Don’t look back - (Its not there any more) - Part 3

On board the small ship “The Kedah”, all had been involved with the same actions around the...

What did you do in the RAF, Dad? (Part 2)

Finally at the end of the West Coast Indian Railway it was off on a ferry crossing to Ceylon. A few days...

War-time Intelligence

Soon after this, the V2s started to fall, especially on London and the V1s were tailing off.My unit was...

Phyllis Briggs's War - Overland to Singapore [P.Thom : Part 2]

Fortunately, although there was no hope of getting the car back on the road, Pat and the Chinese amah she...

Phyllis Briggs's War - Flight and Capture [P.Thom : Part 3]

Because of the repeated bombing attacks, the Captain of the 'Mata Hari' decided to hug the islands...

Phyllis Briggs's War - Alor Star [P.Thom : Part 1]

At the beginning of December 1941 I was one of four nursing sisters at the General Hospital in Alor Star,...

Where I was on VE Day 8th May 1945

I was a Warrant Officer Class 2, one of a small number of British officers and Non-Commissioned Officers...

My Journey Through WW2 - Tony Peach

I remember that trying to land in Malaya was really difficult as the water was so shallow, and that the...

A Journey through the War

My journey through the War took me to Catterick, Aldershot, Liverpool where we boarded ship to Bombay,the...

Missing in Malaya

He was missing in action in Malaya during the time that the Japanese were invading... After it left Malaya...