Has anyone researched the Japanese 'hell ships' of WW2 and the Rakuyo Maru in particular, please? I understand that in September 1944 the Rakuyo...
Hi I have been trying to find info out on Donald Roberts Gnr ( typewriter Mechanic) He was my wife's Grandfather and my children's great...
RememberingToday Casualty Details | CWGC AVES, DONALD LESLIE ERNEST Rank: Private Service No: 3968812 Date of Death: 23/10/1943 Age: 27...
Can anyone help regarding two Hellship voyages. Looking for either a National Archives file or any website listings for two sailings that seem to...
WOOD, CHARLES PATRICK Rank: Private Service No: QX13460 Date of Death: 12/09/1944 Age: 29 Regiment/Service:...
My friend Stan was a pow in forsoma and worked in the copper mines , he is 95 yrs old and 7 years ago he finally opened up and started talking...
McMILLAN, John Phipps; Gnr; VX57833; 2/1st Heavy Battery, RAA. (Re-enlisted - 3/401100; Served KOREA) Was taken prisoner after the fall of...
Hi, A long shot I know but this forum has been so useful that I have to ask. I am in the process of researching the men on my local war memorial...
I have been looking to see if anyone else was going to remind us that today is VJ Day. I actually went to a small local memorial service this...
Hi all , I am currently researching my fathers war history . He was George Albert Snowdon and joined the R.A.O.C as a electric welder and enlisted...
Hello all, For years I knew that my relative was a prisoner of the Japanese, for a long time my research came up empty though after a long search...
Hi All Not sure what they mean, i.e. at the top of my grandfather's POW questionnaire (he was captured in Singapore, was part of F Force and...
I am also wondering if someone can help me with this Japanese POW card please. TURRELL, JOHN HENRY, T/187628, Royal Army Service Corps Regards...
I am wondering if any body can help me decipher a Japanese POW Card please. MORTON, WILLIAM WEDGWOOD,2352248, Royal Corps of Signals 21 Lt. A.A....
I am looking for assistance with information regarding Lt. Claude Spencer Thorpe Woodcock, R.E. (NX59308). The information I have at the moment is...
Dear All Further to my last post my grandfather was in the Royal Artillery (on one of the guns which originally came from HMS Barham) and...
Dear All My grandfather was in the Royal Artillery and captured at Singapore in February 1942. He was sent out from Sime Road camp in December...
As a POW in Changi, dad painted to keep his sanity. These 300 paintings he got out of Changi are now on a webpage after being in his cupboard for...
Hello Tony, I'm a new member to this site so not sure what I'm doing really. My uncle George Ives was aboard the Tamahoko Maru and I have been...
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