Singapore

'The Will To Live': Chapter 11 - Introduction To Jap POW Life

The Japs passed in a few tins of biscuits, and told us to be ready to move off at nine a.m. We...

My Life My War - Chapter 10b

Arriving at Jardine Steps in Singapore Harbour, a sergeant in the Military Police took me in tow and...

Itinerary of one 14701281 Frank Wilkinson

Memorable points of the Med’ — - many days oily calm, - clarity of sea, all shades of green and...

Stan's Story - Part 1

Despite the pain of my injury, off I went to Nottingham — the Carlton drill hall, without the few...

Japanese Prisoner Of War

When this meal was dished out to us, we called it air raid stew,. Poor food meant that the sickness rate...

Freeman to Prisoner to Freedman Part Two

Letters from Fred to his parents: Madras 3.10.1945 - from 916461 LAC Freeman F. EX-POW to Mr & Mrs FA...

Stan's Story - Part 4

On reporting to the officer what had transpired and showing him what had been salvaged, he naturally...

Survival

The atomic bomb saved the lives of many Japanese POWs. Even after 60 years since returning to Scotland from...

War Time Experiences

October is not a good time for landlovers to be at sea even the size of the Capetown Castle, the small...

Stan's Story - Part 2

My CO had tried unsuccessfully to arrange for me to be taken off at Trinidad, which was our first port of...

At Sea after a Wartime Wedding

After a few weeks of these duties at Mildenhall we were all moved to do further guard duties at an internee...

Tweedale's War Part 3

The stuff had to be moved from the drome to the railway, and as there was little transport available at...

'The Will To Live': Chapter 17 - Electric Light, Entertainment and Snails

Men at River Valley had given me the pleasant task of bringing messages and presents to friends left behind...

'The Will To Live': Chapter 15 - Sorties Outside the Wire

We called at the cafe again on the way back, and my new friend bought me a very tasty dish of a...

After the Capitulation

Eventually we were given some food — one small can of rice and a cup of water. A fellow prisoner was...

A Prisoner of War's Story: Part 2

Though the Japanese helped and fed themselves to the food of these parcels, there were times when they...

Tweedale's War Part 2

The Japanese Navy Zero fighter completely outclassed our Brewster Buffalo fighter which was slow, limited...

Tweedale's War Part 7

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

Call Them the Happy Years - Singapore

I too will chronicle these one day and the adventures that I had as a growing child in colonial Malaya - as...

To Singapore and beyond

Like thousands of other prisoners my father was put to work on the infamous “Birma railway”,...

Stan's Story - Part 3

It was whilst in the Indian Ocean, after passing Mozambique and Madagascar that our ghost ship developed...

'The Will To Live': Chapter 16 - ‘Yasume’ Days and Ebonite

In the early days the Japs had been so elated with the unhinderd progress of their armies towards India,...

Recently Found Diary of a POW in Singapore - George Brown

At great risk to himself, my grandad, George Angus Brown of Garstang Lancashire, kept a diary as a Prisoner...

Tweedale's War 4

The stuff had to be moved from the drome to the railway, and as there was little transport available at...

'The Will to Live': Chapter 14 : ‘Ballachang’ and Bayonet Fighting

Now these Japs were not front line soldiers, and carried captured ·303 short Lee-Enfield rifles and...

Phyllis Briggs's War - Liberation at Last [P.Thom : Part 11]

Miss Dryburgh, Nan Wier, Miss Livingstone, Mary Cooper - MacFie - all real friends dying one after another...