Burma

Singapore to Japan

During our first few weeks as P.O.W. the food supplied by the Japanese was mainly rice and we had boiled...

Stan Martin's WW2 story

We were all in the water now but hanging on to what was left of the boat, and being swept along by...

My Dad's Story

On the 23rd March – Les's 22nd birthday, they reached Nattalin where a rice mill had been...

Ann Dear

Still I waited, listening to the dreadful news on the wireless, Malaya and Singapore had fallen, Rangoon...

Memoirs of a Chindit

At the same time enemy forces were infiltrating into Vichy Syria, even closer to the British rear, so this...

Hirohito My part in his Downfall

Moreover, the Squadron's Harvard aircraft was now fully employed carrying the Boys to Calcutta on a...

McCollum family World War 2 Memories

Mum was by then back in Newcastle, living with her best friend for the rest of the war, and that same time...

Memoirs of John Fone Overseas in the Army

My next posting was as Staff Officer to Commander Army Group Engineers, part of 14th Army, which at that...

My Journey to Burma 1940 by Flying Boat

My mother and I left the small hotel in Worthing where we had been staying since before Christmas to travel...

Marching on to Laffan's Plain - Chapter 13

Instead I was working in the Naga Hills at altitudes of a few thousand feet, a most refreshing change.The...

A collection of stories from Somerset

On May 11th 1941 a bomb landed in Mrs Gamlin's road, killing a girl and her father....

A Letter to my Son (Part 1)

Here is the great rock which guards the door of the Mediterranean Sea for Saint George and England and it...

Lawrence's War Memoirs Part 3

Dedicated to Kelda Harrison LAWRENCE'S WAR MEMOIRS: PART 3 Now I must tell you about my dog Pluto... We...

PONIES

One of the ponies had a foal, which trotted behind its mother; and this attracted more attention and pity...

Marching on to Laffan's Plain - Chapter 11

Three months later, General Bill Slim's 14th Army invasion of Burma was pre-empted by the Japanese 15th...

DIARY OF THE TREK OUT OF BURMA 1942

It looks as if we shall be in TAMU for sometime as coolies are unobtainable at the moment, owing to the...

Chapter 9 - Part 1: The Burma Campaign (Jun 1944 - Mar 1945)

Rhino Hill was at the head of the Kaladan valley leading down to Kalewa, a bit north of Mandalay where the...

The First Chindit Part 2

The final straw came when Jack was ordered into a village in broad daylight to scout for Japanese soldiers....

War Service' An Unusual Experience' Part 1

I asked for a guide from the Burmese Government to take me to see a man named U. Bassein, who was the...

The Last Word/My Living Hell

These heartbreaking, wonderful, curious, funny and sensual stories, had only before commanded the minimum...

Burma with the Royal Artillery

In April 1942 very early in the morning Len found himself with thousands of other men marching on to the...

Dunkirk to Burma: With the Royal Artillery

My Father joined the army in November 1936 aged 18 and was enlisted in the Royal Artillery, based at...

A Letter to my Son (Part 2)

On we went still carving a path in the blue waters of the Mediterranean, and at last, and on the thirteenth...

Private Robert Simpson in Burma

During the five years of war many letters home have reached the Nottingham Journal office from Nottingham...

176 Squadron RAF Nightfighters

On 12th October we continued our journey to Arkonsol and from there Sgt McCabe an Australian flew us in a...

Siege of Imphal (Kipper Box) - Part 3

It had an armoured Flight operating with 100 Indian Infantry Brigade of 20 Division commanded by Major...