Germany

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...

Nina Orsten's Escape from Ravensbruck Pt 3

WORKING FOR SIEMENS So a few days later I was called out and I was taken to an interview in front of...

Diary of K R Brant, RAF 349 Belgium Sqadron POW

Saturday October 14th In the afternoon a guide came to the cemetery to take me away to some woods near...

A Collection of Memories by John Rawlings - Chapter 11 and Conclusion

The day came for our demobilisation and Dicky and I planned to travel together to the channel port stopping...

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...

Story of a reluctant SS-Pioneer Part 1

Danube just started to freeze over, he has decided to tie up for the few winter weeks in Hungary and I...

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 &...

A Soldier of the 2nd World War. The Death March.

I was carrying a Boyes anti tank rifle, anyway, so what happened, they were shelling and mortaring, they...

Bill Williams's experiences as Prisoner of War: July 1943 — January 1945

When I arrived in Regensburg, I was put into a combined hospital, sanatorium and lunatic asylum, peopled by...

Norman's War

We spent many a long night in the shelter, as the bombers would follow the River Severn to the Midlands but...

My War by Bob France

I was then told to guard the reservoir at Tufnell Park, in North London, Many years later when I was on...

My Dads Reluctant Story Chapter 1

In addition to the normal crew of seven, 101 Lancasters carried an additional, special wireless operator,...

Harry Tapley's Memories - Part 2

I must say that the German officer who saw us returned shortly afterwards with 2 German Army personnel and...

The Story of a German Child

She told us that Ernst, another o f my brothers had broken his arm, which was now in a sling and that...

Nina Orsten's Escape from Ravensbruck Pt 2

I was taken there and all my clothes and everything was taken from me and I got prison clothes on and a...

Harry Tapley's Memories - Part 1

One day the guard turned around and said that none of the PoWs knew the circumstances in which he joined...

Thomas Emyr Davies - 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment - My Story (Part 12 of 13 - Escape from Stalag IV B, Muhlberg-on-Elbe)

The news from the BBC bulletins told us that the American and Russian troops were making great strides deep...

The War Years of F.N.Snowden

The college course completed successfully, I was ordered to report to the 12th Field Training Regiment...

Luxury Pad

The Kriegsmarine in Kiel faces square on to the port, and the view across the U-boat pens from the top...

Harry Tapley's Memories - Part 3

This situation arose because the rear of the blacksmiths forge was a wall which backed on to the village...

'Fire Orders' Chapter 19b

With our infantry controlling the autobahn, German troops could not leave the city by that route nor...

Life as a Prisoner of War in Germany 1944-45 by Arthur Berry

He took me right down to the basement of the factory and put me into a room where a lot of banging...

'Fire Orders' Chapter 18b

Captain McAllister and I were in our positions astride the beams when a small river tug came into view on...

Alexander George Mallett

Contents ® My autobiography 3 weeks before taken prisoner ® After the battle of LEROS Isle ®...

My War

We left immediately to go to a town called Carvin half way between Lilles and Lens a coal mining town. The...