Indonesia

Phyllis Briggs's War - Notes from my Diary [P.Thom : Part 7]

British women from Djambi arrived, including Netta Smith a nursing sister and friend of Jennie MacAlister,...

Phyllis Briggs's War - Surviving the Internment Camps [P.Thom : Part 9]

Ena Murray and her sister Norah Chambers and Audrey Owens were amongst these splendid people who did this...

Phyllis Briggs's War - Life in the Dutch Houses [P.Thom : Part 5]

There were many British as well as a few Chinese and Eurasians from Singapore, also the Australian Nursing...

The War Away From the Homefront-A Personal Account

With only rough directions as to how to get to Vavuniya, a British base in North Ceylon, his squadron were...

Round the world at government expense Chapter8: With the RAF in Australia and SE Asia

This meant flying via Darwin to Morotai in the Halmahera Islands and then up to Balikpapan in Eastern...

I Bowed So Low, They Didn't Notice Me!

Her fatherwas Mr.Pino and a Dutch Government Official in Indonesia, which was still a Dutch colony at that...

Two Evacuations by "Phil": France 1940 and Java 1942

We left the Clyde on about 8th December 1941 for an unknown destination, via Freetown, Durban and the...

Round the world at government expense Chapter7: With the RAF in Australia, The Philippines and Hong Kong

On one occasion we held a dance at Camden and Dickie came out giving me the chance to show her around the...

Phyllis Briggs's War - Further notes from my Diary [P.Thom : Part 8]

Great indignation as Fatty insisted on the water carriers filling his bath and water tank, and then they...

Born into war

Dad was called up to join the Grenadier Guards when I was a year old and the night before he was due...

Deadly Manna

Laurens van der Post mentions somewhere that he saw documents with plans to turn the internment camps on...

Concentration camp. Internment Camp

A monk suddenly addressed the group of tourists, "Is there a German among you?.. The exchange rate for...

The fighting didn't stop in 1945

We picked up a load of Australian ex-prisoners of war from Changi prison in Singapore, and went back to...

Terrapin at Large

Terrapin fired her three stern torpedoes. The original intention had been to lie on the bottom of the...

The Squadron that Vanished

The aircraft took off on an operational sortie but, before they returned, Japanese paratroops had been...

“Ode To All the Decent Women in the Dutch Indies”

Ode To All the Decent Women in the Dutch Indies” Below follows the anonymous poem dedicated “to...

Not a Sound

Bran is given a magic cauldron by a grateful guest. Gulf syndrome, there's no such thing" or in any...

I Became a Number

The men were interned separately, we only saw him once in a camp near a town in East Java. When death...

Operations against the Japanese aboard the Queen Elizabeth

We bombarded Sabang which is an island off the northern tip of Sumatra, in the province of Aceh, on 11...

HMS Stonehenge

This is the story of hms stonehenge,which due to a mix up of time and place was not blessed before it...

After the war: Indonesian Economics

When this was secured, the Indonesians still refused to accept Dutch currency, preferring to use the...

Extended War

No credit is given to the Army & R.A.F members who's war continued for over another year after...