I could come home every Saturday afternoon and back to Malang every Monday morning at 5 a.m. Our schools...
A bridge crossed the river and led to the communal Kitchen and coolie lines and older buildings, including...
Whenever we left harbour there was a pipe over the Tannoy followed by an instruction "Close all X and Y...
When we got to Koepang, Dutch East Timor there was no harbour so on high tide the old coaster crept in...
Letters from Fred to his parents: Madras 3.10.1945 - from 916461 LAC Freeman F. EX-POW to Mr & Mrs FA...
Later that day we were shunted around but eventually put off the train to some tobacco-drying shed outside...
General ter Foorten commanded the 25,000 regular troops of the Dutch garrison, who were joined by the...
Nel Elfring was born in April 1922 as the eldest child of Herman and ‘Mies’ Elfring, a Dutch...
Sister Martha and the other nurse threw themselves on me and the bedpan, removed the child and took it out...
The next morning 700 Japanese parachutists descended on Palembang and all day a hot battle was fought for...
Miss Dryburgh, Nan Wier, Miss Livingstone, Mary Cooper - MacFie - all real friends dying one after another...
Nel, my mother, can verify what has been written in ‘Het Verbluffende Kamp’ and the Hut 14...
The Japanese under the command of Major KIDO fought shoulder to shoulder with the British against the...
PREPARING FOR D-DAY The Mobile Base Defence Organisation provided gunners for three Batteries of 2.pounder...
There was a combined Dutch and British party given for the children and every child was given a present....