Hi, This a short account by a Belgian officer called Captaine-Commandant Maurissen. In this document, Maurissen describes how he was taken...
Hello everyone, I am slowly working my way through a long list of Allied servicemen who were helped by the Italian Resistance to cross the border...
Sgt. Spittle of No. 2 AFPU photographed Cpl. Stanley Skinner escaped twice in Italy after being taken prisoner outside of Tobruk. Skinner was...
Hi All, This soldier was awarded the MM for escape and evasion (Hong Kong) which was gazetted 10th November 1942. His family believe he served on...
Hi everybody, I'm a novice researching my partner's grandfather, per above. He was with the 1st/4th Battalion of Essex Regiment, captured in...
Good afternoon all, Recently, I have started to look into those RASC personnel taken POW and those that escaped. I have attached a citation for...
This story appeared today of a remarkable escape and an equally remarkable, though sad, coincidence. Apologies if this story is well known to you...
Personal Number: 124535 Rank: Major Name: Harry Alexander Desmond BUCHANAN, MC Unit: Grenadier Guards ; 8 Commando ; SAS ; SBS London Gazette :...
2/Lt. John Lewis Cumming McGillivray (237738) 1st Bn Sherwood Foresters, 1 Armoured Brigade Went missing on 21st June 1942 after being...
Captain Coll Lorne MacDougall 53970 was born in 1906 in Trujillo, Peru, the son of Coll and Jane MacDougall from Islay, Scotland. His parents had...
Personal Number: 200079 Rank: Lieutenant Name: Anthony Henry Ivor KINSMAN Unit: Grenadier Guards; Long Range Desert Group; Royal Armoured Corps;...
Personal Number: 207645 Rank: Second Lieutenant Name: Anthony John COURAGE Unit: Grenadier Guards London Gazette : 10 October 1941...
Personal Number: 207642 Rank: Second Lieutenant Name: Norton Cecil Michael KNATCHBULL, 6th Baron BRABOURNE Unit: Grenadier Guards London Gazette...
Hi all, just joined. I have been looking around the different sites and came upon this one on FB and thought I might share and do some more...
William John Martin was born in 1918 in the village of Loddiswell, Devon where he was known as ‘John’ and worked as a butcher. Gunner Martin...
My father, Gunner Basil William Bancroft, service number 1470534, was a FEPOW captured at the fall of Singapore in Feb. 1942. He was initially...
Hi all, I was listening to an episode of a British WW2 escapers podcast (For You The War is Over) and the historian of the two podcasters...
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