Links - Personal Experience

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180th Engineer Heavy Ponton Battalion during WWII
Dennis Crowley's tribute to his grandfather Joesph L Begin who served with this battalion.

313 Days to Christmas
The author's experiences in the RAF and as a POW

And to Think, I Volunteered!
The Memoirs of Harry Thorpe, Far Eastern Prisoner of War.

Auxiliary Units

Letters to Gerry
Letters written to Gerry, of 331st Bomb Squadron, while he was stationed in England during the Second World War.

Duncan Woolard's selection of varied experiences of the Second World War

Dutch East Indies
Personal memories of the years of the Japanese occupation in the former Dutch East Indies during World War Two

Earl & Albert O'Hanley
Merchant Mariners From P.E.I. on the S.S. Maplecourt in WWII

Extracts of Diaries written by Roger Collinson whilst a prisoner of World War II

Evacuees to Hawkley Village
From Battersea Central School in London

Flight Sergeant Harry E. Hansell
A Canadian airman on bombing missions over Germany, eventually killed in action

François Marie Scornet 1921 - 1941
This private site is a memorial to François Marie Scornet. A brave French man who together with fifteen friends, answered the call, of General Charles De Gaulle's broadcast on the 17th June 1940. This story is based in the Channel Islands and Brittany.

George Pollard Tribute
Dedicated to my great, great Uncle George Pollard who died in World War Two, while fighting in 196 squadron in Bomber Command.

HMS Gambia 1941-1943
A copy of the draft diary kept by a crew member who may have been a Stoker.

Ian Henry Duncan
A site dedicated to the memory of Ian Duncan, a POW from 1942 to 1945

In Search of a Captive
This site dedicated to the author's father Arthur Christie. It is the story of Arthur Christie's involvement in Winston Churchill's Special Operations Executive, and his eventual Mission "Scapula" to Singapore with Freddy Spencer-Chapman, to his capture by the Japanese and three long years as a Captive.

Jack Cull
Signalman Jack Linder Cull, army no. 2575857 - Royal Signals, serving with the 8th Army, 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment, in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and Yugoslavia. Won MM working with communist resistance in Yugoslavia.

James Holland's Second World War Forum
The Oral History Archive section of this interesting website contains interviews with veterans.

John Francis Koplitz
Fighter pilot with RCAF, RAF and AAF serving in England and North Africa.

Les Fildew
A brief history of his wartime Army Service in England, India and Burma.

Lewis Seccombe Farmar Edwards
With 1st Bn Queen Victoria's Rifles sent to Calais in May 1940.

Lt J P H Guy
Diaries from his letters home: Norway 1940, France-Belgium 1944 and letters from his father to his Company Commander after he was killed in action 29/09/1944.

Moving here - personal stories of coming to Britain
A site with personal experiences of family movements and name-changes.

My Malta
Service men and women associated with Malta

Nga Toa
Nga Toa features a collection of oral history and personal accounts from WW2 veterans of New Zealand's armed forces. Includes personal stories from major theaters such as Greece, Crete, North Africa, Italy and the Pacific.

The North Irish Horse Regiment - my experiences.
Personal experiences of Arthur Gerald Chester with this Regiment during the Second World War.

The Olive and Eric Web Site
Devoted to the wartime experiences of the author's parents including extracts from letters; Olive with three young children in Leicester, UK, Eric serving in North Africa and Italy.

The Pity of War
Family and related material through both World Wars including the memoirs of Capt. R.D.S. Drew-Smythe, who served in Burma and India, during the Second World War

Prisoner of War
A tribute to those imprisoned in Stalag 18A, Wolfsberg, Austria, and in particular those who, like the author's father, were members of Working Party 99/L

Prisoners of War of the Japanese 1942-1945
A collection of articles about, mainly, Australia POWs of the Japanese.

Recollections of an RB-29 Crew in Japan
The personal recollections of Art Humby and Jim Morrison and their escape from North China.

The Saturday Night Soldiers
The 4th battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment

Seabees - the US Navy's 93rd Construction Battalion
Based on the experiences of Robert W. Conner while stationed in the Pacific.

Stoker's Story - Scapa, Crete, Stalag and Home
An autobiography by Harold J. Siddall concerning his naval career and experiences as a POW

War Stories
The stories of two men in the Second World War: 'Robbie' was a Dunkirk veteran and later became a POW in the Far East, 'Len' is also a Dunkirk veteran, he later took part in the Normandy landings and the advance across Europe.

William Pearson
Corporal William Oliver Pearson, BC (NL) First World War veteran who distinguished himself in the Second World War as a welder with the LAD for an Armoured Regiment on active service in North-West France.