Singapore

A Prisoner of War's Story: Part 1

He spent much of his prisoner of war life as the chief surgeon and medical officer at the copper mine camp...

Fall of Singapore

The Australians from the 8th Army were coming home in droves aboard the Queen Mary, the authorities were...

Voyage Home from Singapore - 1939, Part 2 "The Recollections"

H.M.S. Hardy was the Flotilla Leader of the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla of “H” Class ships. The anti...

Goodbye “Pinna” (an account of her final days and our escape)

During the first two or three days after landing in Singapore I “acquired” a sextant and a book...

Tweedale's War Part 5

The RAF had moved its bombers to Sumatra, reserving the four airfields of Singapore Island for our fighter...

Tweedale's War: Part 3, Pages 18 to 26

On 8th December 1941 the following aircraft were usually available - 43 Brewster Buffaloes - 90 assorted...

The Evacuation of Palambang and Java

The day after we arrived at Palambang 2, several of us were detailed to stop at the drome as a servicing...

'The Will To Live': Chapter 19 - A New Enemy, Ant Stings, & Close Confinement

The Japs had decided to starve us out, but they did not know that our officers had retained a reserve of...

Phyllis Briggs's War - A Nurse's Wartime Diary [P.Thom : Part 4]

28th February I was in the surdery that afternoon when two people were brought in; one a tall Australian...

Building the Bridge over the River Kwai

Captain Gripper in our platoon took his men in their tanks through long grass where the Japanese were...

A Radar Operator in Singapore, Sumatra, Japan - and Home to Sheffield

Typical Japs didn't come out at all so the Dutch army set fire to the oil plant at Palambang I think I...

My Time with the RAF

I'd come off a 12 hour night shift, and had been asleep for about an hour when a man from the Orderly...

From Balderton to Scotland, France and the Far East

The pier was soon visited by Field Marshal Montgomery himself, and one of Dad's most vivid memories is...

Operation Jurist and the end of the War

Next day several thousand men were landed to line the streets and provide guards of honour for the...

A Young Boy's War: Chapter 1

There was a message from the Admiralty for my father that the three of us were to find our way to...

A Japanese POW and the Bridge Over the River Kwai

Going into Singapore we were attacked by the Japanese aeroplanes up the Malaka straights which was not very...

Light Blue Ulstermen

An official of the Embassy visited Hugh at his Newtownabbey home with an itinerary of Nagasaki visits and...

Kenneth S Burns: My War - Memories of a Prisoner of War - Part I

Both the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse had been sunk by torpedoes launched by Japanese aircraft when...

A Toddler in Singapore at the Outbreak of WW2

In 1971, whilst serving at Dharan, the then British Gurkha base in Nepal, I was given permission to go to...

Aldershot to the Sultan of Johors palace via Normandy

We were in the trench for 3 or 4 days before we started our job of ferrying supplies up from an american...

A Trip Around the World

The people who had travelled north from Singapore with us told us we had to build a railway. Lots of boats...

'The Will To Live': Chapter 20 - I Have a Mucker, Red Cross Rations & a Scottish RSM

Apart from a few weeks in Chunkai, Changi was the only camp I was in where sergeants messed separately from...

'The Will To Live': Chapter 12 - In Changi POW Camp

We had no food to eat, and at midday suffered the mortification of seeing the Japs eat their beautiful...

FEPOW - the Story of William Nicholls

Drafted to HMS Dragonfly, a Yangtze river Gunboat, in which I served until April 27th 1941 when I was...

Escape from Singapore

Bill and I told them we could probably fix it up, so while the rest of them on the boat were getting...

The First Chindit Part 1

When they reached Singapore Jack even took part in the Oriental Olympic Games in 1937, beating several...