hi there,have just registerd on this forum and hopefully find some help.my grandfather was killed in italy during ww2,my mother untill a few years...
I Had an Uncle T/Major Thomas Edward Spencer who served with the RA during WW2 and was captured at Singapore and held in Changi. He was awarded...
Hi I am trying to find out more about my father Harold Prescott Rank: Gnr Army No: 2139322 who i am almost sure was with the 88th (2nd West...
Remembering today: Cyril Geoffrey Tooth Leading Aircraftsman 805530 Royal Air Force (Auxiliary Air Force), 605 Squadron Died: 29/11/1943...
I've just read the following quote from 'Birds In A Cage'' by Derek Niemann page 86. For Conder , gloom was mixed with a grim sense of...
Forum Member PatWalker has written a book about the above Regiment, whose Batteries (3, 12 & 15) were captured by the Japanese at Singapore and...
Forum Member PatWalker has written a book about the above Regiment, whose Batteries (3, 12 & 15) fought at Dunkirk and were captured by the...
Name: BARRACLOUGH, LEONARD Rank: Aircraftman 2nd Class Service No: 1104245 Date of Death: 31/10/1944 Age: 31 Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force...
I am trying to locate as much information as possible about the fate of HMS Sultan leading up to the fall of Singapore in February 1942. In...
SINCLAIR, ROBERT Rank: Aircraftman 1st Class Service No: 1171745 Date of Death: 18/09/1944 Age: 24 Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer...
Hi, does anyone know what brigade and division the 1st Somersets were serving with in January 1944? I found conflicting info on the internet...
In 2 British Newspapers occured an article about POW artwork that has come to light. They are of my dads. See Sketches from hell: Touching...
Dad was evacuated from Dunkirk and then to North Malaya, ending up as a POW under the Japanese. To keep his sanity he painted but many images we...
remembering today, thomas henry bartlett 240bty 77HAA and all who died on the Tamahoko Maru 24th June 1944
Hello from Adelaide Australia. We emigrated from UK to Australia in 1958 and I am proud to be the son of Des Bettany, ex POW. I have been...
Info: Australian? Allied Unit, Roland Noel Harrison Forsyth, New Guinea Volunteer Rifles :poppy: Quote: Any further information would be...
The following are a couple of bits that belonged to my Sister-in-laws Grandfather. We believe he was a member of 137 Field Regiment, Royal...
I'm just reading "Captivity Slavery and survival as a Far East POW" by Peter Fyans , about the life and very hard times of 'Fergus Anckhorn' ,...
Hi I posted this on WW2f but thought it might be of interest here: “We had uneventful train journey to Nagasaki and then we saw the result of...
I,m wondering if there is still anyone out there that new my dad Robert Viney he was held prisoner of war in Rangoon, I believe he was a private...
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