Singapore

From Dunkirk to Singapore

As the village where Dad lived is on the banks of the River Tweed and the main occupation at that time was...

Remembering My Dad, by Jean Nixon (nee Ward)

My mother heard nothing about him until a letter arrived in September 1942 to say that he had been in...

J A Martin DFC - Terrible Confusion of a Pilot Lost at Dumdum

During our flights to the Far East we flew into Dumdum and we ‘slipped crews’... Ace Anning who...

J A Martin DFC - UK to Singapore Post-War

The next time I encountered Sergeant Barker was at Habbaniya in the Middle East when I was attched to...

Singapore Now

I've previously read the book, Battalion at war, Singapore 1942 by Michael Moore which detailed the...

The Japanese Surrender of Singapore: Witnessing History in the Making

HMS Sussex sailed to Mombasa on the east coast of Africa and we were based here, carrying out conveying...

My Family's War

Her brother, James Mc Afee served as a stoker on HMS repulse and later HMS Prince of Wales and was sank in...

Burma Bound

Singapore Year: 1941 It was a long hot stuffy day as A.E Clarke born and bred in Birmingham, Bert to his...

The Fall of Singapore. GEO to GFJ

The outlook bleak for GEO: A Yellow Army in a mighty rush, At GFJ, we kept in touch, A little help, perhaps...

Reunited

Dakotas rebuilt engines and flew them to England to sell as scrap to the Americans to make pots and pans. I...

How I Lost My Brother Harold

My eldest brother, Harold, couldn't wait to join up and enlisted before he received his call-up papers....

Prisoner of War of the Japanese

He was sent to Singapore by Churchill and just got there when the Japanese arrived... He was there until...

Stealing Away

Uncle Robert fought with his fellow aussie soldiers in the Pacific war and was captured by the Japanese......

Forgotten Volunteers.

In 1940 I was one of the 2.5 million people from the Indian Sub Continent, who volunteered to join the...

The Aftermath

Bert was a short young man with rosy red apple cheeks and a cheeky George Formby grin... When the Japanese...

My Life in Short

My ship was sunk by an Italian Submarine in January 1941 and I finally arrived in Singapore in April 1941....

Royal Army Medical Corps, My Exeriences

There were soon vacancies in a laboratory at the General Head Quaters in New Delhi and I soon had the...

Escape From Singapore

My maternal grandfather Arthur Maugham was a Royal Marine posted to Singapore just prior to the surrender...

Best Laugh of the War: Victory Parade at Jahoo Borra, Singapore

When the war finished I was sent to the far east for the Victory Parade at Jahoo Borra near Singapore....

Singapore Hospital Attack

Manchester Regiment, C Company joined 18th August 1940 as a machine gunner but was put with signals corp....

Listening to the BBC World Service

My uncle was captured at Singapore and was sent to work on the Japanese railway line at Sonkurai... It was...

Kedah

We left early in 1945 on the advance down the Arakan Coast, re-occupying Akyab and on the way to Kyaukpyu...

Captured in Singapore

My uncle, Albert Lett left for Singapore from Aldershot in early 1942... He survived captivity in...

Back to Singapore

We were withdrawn to Calcutta to be the Headquarters Communications ship for the recapture of Singapore......

Carrying Lord Wavell from Singapore by ship

It was the last large ship to leave, this was an honour since the ship carried Lord Wavell, Viceroy and...

Prisoners of War Singapore

At the end of the occupation of Singapore we dealt with many thousands of Japaneses Prisoners of War....