The atomic bomb saved the lives of many Japanese POWs. Even after 60 years since returning to Scotland from...
Eventually we were given some food — one small can of rice and a cup of water. A fellow prisoner was...
I too will chronicle these one day and the adventures that I had as a growing child in colonial Malaya - as...
It was whilst in the Indian Ocean, after passing Mozambique and Madagascar that our ghost ship developed...
At great risk to himself, my grandad, George Angus Brown of Garstang Lancashire, kept a diary as a Prisoner...
He spent much of his prisoner of war life as the chief surgeon and medical officer at the copper mine camp...
The Australians from the 8th Army were coming home in droves aboard the Queen Mary, the authorities were...
During the first two or three days after landing in Singapore I “acquired” a sextant and a book...
Captain Gripper in our platoon took his men in their tanks through long grass where the Japanese were...
Typical Japs didn't come out at all so the Dutch army set fire to the oil plant at Palambang I think I...
Both the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse had been sunk by torpedoes launched by Japanese aircraft when...
In 1971, whilst serving at Dharan, the then British Gurkha base in Nepal, I was given permission to go to...
The people who had travelled north from Singapore with us told us we had to build a railway. Lots of boats...
Bill and I told them we could probably fix it up, so while the rest of them on the boat were getting...
There Pearce joined us and we flew in an Imperial Airways Empire flying boat via Lake Galilee, Lake...
Although being a driver/dispatch rider, my main job was as batman-driver to our Signals Officer, Second...
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