Stories categorised in ''The Will To Live' by Len (Snowie) Baynes'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
One day, after about a week, those of us that were off duty were working away on our trestle-table by the...
Singapore had no previously prepared positions for defense against an attack from the mainland of Malaya,...
Captain Cannon was our platoon officer, and Corporal Baynes his second in command. Our commando moved into...
Britain and her Commonwealth faced the world alone, with her factories, towns and cities being devastated...
Singapore itself is an island about twenty miles long, separated from the province of the Malayan mainland,...
The Chinese women seemed to carry on with their daily chores right through the battle for Singapore,...
Our C.S.M poor Tommy was hors de combat, and my own officer had left us at the commencement of the action,...
I stayed with the badly wounded Simpkin while Hanton returned over the wire for help, and a few minutes...
Thus, at a quarter past five, when he was facing what we thought was our front, Sgt. Hanton received a...
Very nearly broken-hearted, I ran into the nearby sergeants’ hut and asked if anyone had seen an...
Although I cannot remember all I had at that time, I certainly had the following: bucket, a four imperial...
We later moved Sedburg, climbing mountains with half hundredweight on our back, practising mountain...
A few days later, the Japs brought in a group of Thais they had caught, we were told, stealing blankets. It...
I conclude my story with an account of the accident which involved that same car, and left me with an above...
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