Singapore

Fleeing from the Japanese

3rd September 1939 On board PO and O Steamer Viceroy of India in the Mediterranean between Italy and Malta...

RN Service

I took a trade test in Portsmouth and was made a Leading Motor Mechanic and allocated to Combined...

Daughter of the Regiment

My father was RSM Alexander ‘Sandy’ Munnoch of the 2nd Battalion Argyll & Sutherland...

Gloucestershire - Sid's Story

In 1948 they decided to make their home permanently in Stonehouse and there they lived until their deaths,...

Measles.

A Brief Account Of My War Memories

The news that the US had dropped the first atom bomb was heard on a secret radio, as was the news of...

Escape from Singapore

Incidentally, he witnessed the sailing from Singapore harbour of the Battleship HMS Prince of Wales and...

Searches For Arthur-Desmond G Pastore.

Three brothers had been called up, one was in the Cheshire Yeomanry, one was in the Yorkshire Infantry and...

Stan's Story - Part 5

I was truly thankful for the contents included a razor, a piece of soap, a small towel and best of all my...

The Infamous Railway

Lucky escapes Richard had another lucky escape from unexploded bombs in the River Kwai, which are still...

A VAD in SouthEast Asia

I spent a month on night duty at the military hospital during the bombing of York and was then posted to...

Lifelong After-Effects WWII has on its Survivors

My mother and her siblings were children when the Japanese occupied Singapore in February 1942. My maternal...

The Fall of Singapore and Rescue at Sea, 1942

My dad and his good friend from England, Reg Fehrn, were asked to turn the aviation fuel out into the...

Merchant Navy Story

The entire course was posted to another armed merchant vessel which unfortunately was sunk on its first...

The Postman with the Telegram

So one dark and cold morning the postman knocked on my Grandmothers door with the dreaded telegram the war...

Fred's Journey Part 1: The Magic Indian Ocean crossing

Three ships formed up - I was in the first, The Cape Town Castle, then second was The Athlone Castle that...

The Fall of Singapore

We put to sea again, but picked up about 87 Japanese bombers, torpedo bombers and dive bombers, I mean...

A Little Help from One's Friends 1941-42

From Lord Alanbrooke's diary it seems there was some doubt as the where to send us and Iraq was...

An Artillery Piece Saved My Father's Life

And on December 10, approximately 6 weeks after his hernia operation, HMS Prince of Wales was sunk by the...

Singapore 1945

We listened as Kathryn Grayson sang ‘Daybreak’, and a more appropriate song to describe our...

A Scottish Soldier

He was declared 'unfit for active service' and posted to 18th division, Reconnaissance...

Sentenced to Death at Singapore

As soon as he was old enough, he joined the army, and was quickly dispatched to the Far East — or as...

Aunt's War Stories

In 1942 the Japanese attacked Singapore without warning, the same as when they attacked Pearl Harbour......

J A Martin DFC - Postwar Flights Between UK and Singapore

Whilst I was with Transport Command, 51 Squadron flying between UK and Singapore we landed at Castel Benito...

My Husbands War

Whilst based in Plymouth, Philip, along with many other service men would attend the Sunday service at the...

From Farm Boy, to Soldier, to Prisoner of War; the Memoirs of Alf Davey

From Blackburn we went to Ross-on-Wye, then on 29th October 1941 we sailed from Liverpool on a ship called...