Singapore

Voyage Home from Singapore - 1939. Part 1 "The convoy"

Singapore to Southampton via Port Said & Gibraltar. Dilwara had been patched up after the collision and...

My Wartime Service and Experiences. Part 1

Japanese forces advanced down the whole of Malaya,Our Royal Engineers blew up the causeway which connected...

Memories from Being a Prisoner of War in Japanese POW Camps

The Japanese military police kicked the boy off the bicycle and smashed it....

A Slice of Autobiography (1939 to 1946) — Part 6

We called at Esquimault, a small Canadian Base; at Hawaii, free from tourism on Waikiki beach, and still...

Eight Years in the RAFVR - Part Four - Setting the Singapore Defences

There Pearce joined us and we flew in an Imperial Airways Empire flying boat via Lake Galilee, Lake...

An Adventure

Cynics might say that the 18th division was delivered to Singapore just in time to suffer the humiliation...

All Things Must Pass

Although being a driver/dispatch rider, my main job was as batman-driver to our Signals Officer, Second...

Eight Years in the RAFVR - Part Five - The Far East War Starts

A Filter Room had been built, and manned, at Kallang, to receive and assess reports from the radar stations...

Les Baker's Letter Home. Part 3. Escape from Sumatra and Java.

We were getting rather desperate at this time, as we had heard on the road that the Japs had captured...

Les Baker's Letter Home - Part 2 Fall of Singapore and Sumatra

It was just the shortage of good RAF planes that left us Malaya, we having all very old obsolete kites...

FEPOW - William Coates Nicholls PART 2

Then a few days later the cruiser Sussex came into Singapore town, and the Admiral and some men came to...

Escape From Singapore

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

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

We went by rail to Haito camp where there were already a few British offices and other ranks. We had our...

'The Will to Live': Chapter 13: In River Valley Road POW Camp

RIVER VALLEY ROAD CAMP My first impression of this camp was one of filth and disorder, after the...

My Grandads Story

Grandad did many jobs in Changi, one of those was a "Batman" to a Japanese Officer, I think that is...

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...

Les Baker's Letter Home Part 4. Journey to Ceylon.

When the Japs landed in Java, there was nothing we could do as we had very little equipment and very few...

Eight Years in the RAFVR - Part Six - Escape from Singapore

I remained in Singapore, running the four remaining radar stations, the communications unit, the filter...

My Life My War - Chapter 14

I applied for and received my brother's medals and offered them with the story to the Royal Artillery...

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...

'The Will To Live': Chapter 10 - Captured!

asked the Jap, as the party stopped a yard or two away, ‘No, me Lt. Col. As the Japs led him and...

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...

The Jaywick Operation

A former Japanese fishing vessel, renamed the Krait, which had been captured off Singapore in December 1941...