Civilian Internment

A Child's War -Part 11

Each parcel contained things such as Emergency K Rations, tins of spam, Klim dried milk, chocolate,...

A Child's War -Part 5

The strangest twist of this story which at the time as a young boy I found completely incongruous, was that...

A Child's War -Part 10

The first stage of the eventual defeat of Japan was the steady progress made by General MacArthur in...

A Child's War -Part 6

So it has been decided that all of you, with the exception of the Service Officers who will go separately...

A Child's War -Part 17

Here were the task forces that had crushed the pride of Japan's great Navy from Midway to the Coral...

A Child's War -Part 3

Nearly all were wearing a vest emblazoned in dark blue with the German eagle above a swastika in a circle,...

A Child's War -Part 9

A copy of the Japanese Edition of the Mainichi would be “borrowed”, then taken upstairs and the...

Nel's Story: Part II: Internment in Kare-Es and Kota Paris

Sister Martha and the other nurse threw themselves on me and the bedpan, removed the child and took it out...

Phyllis Briggs's War - Liberation at Last [P.Thom : Part 11]

Miss Dryburgh, Nan Wier, Miss Livingstone, Mary Cooper - MacFie - all real friends dying one after another...

The Last Word/My Living Hell

These heartbreaking, wonderful, curious, funny and sensual stories, had only before commanded the minimum...

Paul Elwell's Story - Part 2- War and Internment

Category C, “Refugees from Nazi Oppression”, were renamed “Friendly Enemy Aliens”.....

Explosions of Punishments

Nel, my mother, can verify what has been written in ‘Het Verbluffende Kamp’ and the Hut 14...

My Experiences in Japanese Concentration Camps on Java, Indonesia.

The Japanese under the command of Major KIDO fought shoulder to shoulder with the British against the...

Phyllis Briggs's War - A Nurse's Wartime Diary [P.Thom : Part 4]

28th February I was in the surdery that afternoon when two people were brought in; one a tall Australian...

My Father's Internment

At some point Alberto did plan to buy a horse and cart to start on his own, selling ice-cream; but...

Lilly's Story (part 1): Leaving Austria for London

Lilly's Story: Leaving Austria for London. My husband, John, who had been in the Socialist Republican...

Phyllis Briggs's War - More Life in the Dutch Houses [P.Thom : Part 6]

There was a combined Dutch and British party given for the children and every child was given a present....

Paul Elwell's Story - Part 1 - The Making of an Alien

Dr Eichwald worked in Selby, Yorkshire, for several years prior to World War I. While there, in 1911 he...

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,...

A Journey Into Memory - Reminiscences of a Conscientious Objector

Eventually we arrived at Wormwood Scrubs prison — actually quite a nice location because if you stood...

The Story of Bevin's Babes: Chapter 2

Austria — the “Austrian Auschluss” - in which several of her family perished, she...

Paul Elwell's Story - Part 4 - Aftermath and Adjustment

After the armistice, my unit moved to Paternion in Austria to comb the mountains — Hitler's...

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...

Lilly’s Story (Part 2): Finding an International Family in Shropshire

Lilly takes up the story again: Leaving London for Wales I was relatively young and careless but my poor...

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...

A Child's War -Part 7

An unusual and true story of a young boy who with his mother became a prisoner of both the Germans and the...