Fall of Singapore 1942

Escape From Singapore

In 1934 Fay started her education with the Sisters of the Holy Child in Mayfield, Sussex. In 1976 Fay...

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...

Life on HMS Dragon

Every other day we would go ashore and catch the train from Simonstown to Cape Town and we would meet up...

Goodbye Daddy-Fall of Singapore

From the circle of Daddy's arms I looked up at the ss Narkunda... It was my chance to leap up into...

Les Baker's Letter Home. Pt.l. Journey to Singapore

Well Mum as you know already I managed to get Tom in the same cabin as I on the boat "Capetown...

Escape from Singapore

Midshipman Leach gave me a letter to take to HMS Prince of Wales with strict instructions to deliver it to...

Experiences As A Japanese Prisoner-of-War 1941 - 1945

The Japanese forces captured Singapore during early 1942, and our ship was re-directed to Java, in the...

Fleeing from the Japanese

3rd September 1939 On board PO and O Steamer Viceroy of India in the Mediterranean between Italy and Malta...

Daughter of the Regiment

My father was RSM Alexander ‘Sandy’ Munnoch of the 2nd Battalion Argyll & Sutherland...

A Brief Account Of My War Memories

The news that the US had dropped the first atom bomb was heard on a secret radio, as was the news of...

Escape from Singapore

Incidentally, he witnessed the sailing from Singapore harbour of the Battleship HMS Prince of Wales and...

Searches For Arthur-Desmond G Pastore.

Three brothers had been called up, one was in the Cheshire Yeomanry, one was in the Yorkshire Infantry and...

Lifelong After-Effects WWII has on its Survivors

My mother and her siblings were children when the Japanese occupied Singapore in February 1942. My maternal...

The Fall of Singapore and Rescue at Sea, 1942

My dad and his good friend from England, Reg Fehrn, were asked to turn the aviation fuel out into the...

The Fall of Singapore

We put to sea again, but picked up about 87 Japanese bombers, torpedo bombers and dive bombers, I mean...

A Scottish Soldier

He was declared 'unfit for active service' and posted to 18th division, Reconnaissance...

Sentenced to Death at Singapore

As soon as he was old enough, he joined the army, and was quickly dispatched to the Far East — or as...

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

From Blackburn we went to Ross-on-Wye, then on 29th October 1941 we sailed from Liverpool on a ship called...

Prisoner of War of the Japanese

He was sent to Singapore by Churchill and just got there when the Japanese arrived... He was there until...

Stealing Away

Uncle Robert fought with his fellow aussie soldiers in the Pacific war and was captured by the Japanese......

Escape From Singapore

My maternal grandfather Arthur Maugham was a Royal Marine posted to Singapore just prior to the surrender...

Singapore Hospital Attack

Manchester Regiment, C Company joined 18th August 1940 as a machine gunner but was put with signals corp....

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...

Prisoners of War Singapore

At the end of the occupation of Singapore we dealt with many thousands of Japaneses Prisoners of War....