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Lieutenant General, VC, KBE, CB, DSO Philip Neame (1888-1978) escaped on 8 September 1943 from PG...

22nd Battalion 2NZEF 35784 Roy Johnston was a New Zealand soldier. He enlisted in the 1930s in the...

Trooper, 7907999, 8th Hussars Royal Armoured Corps Raymond Charles West was captured by the...

Gunner, No. 1138730 George Dean (1923-2022) was born on 15 June 1923 in Woodlands, north of the...

107° South Nottinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry Lawrence Bains (1920-2015) was born on 11 May 1920, in...

7th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery Philip John Duppa Langrishe (1917-2010) took part in the...

Lieutenant, Royal Engineers (RE) John Jenkins was captured by the Germans in North Africa on 26...

D.S.O., R.N. H.M. Submarine Splendid Ian Lachlan Mackay McGeoch (1914-2007) was born in...

Trooper 7899817 44th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment Gordon Lee was captured in Libya by the Axis...

91219, Major, Middlesex Yeomanry Richard Patrick Tallentyre Gibson (1916-2004) was born in London,...

Charles Edwin West was born on 31 March 1916 and took part in the war as a pilot of a Bristol...

60th Field Regiment, Royal ArtilleryGilbert Broadbent was a radio operator of the 60th Field...

British Army 4th Btn. East Yorkshire RegimentJohn Grasby (1911-1975) was born on 13 May 1911 in...

George J. Isitt served as a soldier in the 8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars under the command of...

John Desmond Peck (1922-2002) was born in Woollahra (New South Wales), and his experience in the...

3rd Field Regiment, RA, 8th Army Cecil “John” Mallen (1919-2017) was born on 1 May 1919 in...

2657301 Gdsm, 3 Coldstream Guards, 1 Armd Division Dennis Hutton Fox (1919-2002) was born in...

197/61st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery David Charles Colwell was born in Norbury,...

Number: IA 102; Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel (Commander); Regiment: 3 Gurkha Rifles Charles...

Leading Seaman, JX/125054, Royal Navy, HM Submarine Oswald Albert Edward Penny served on board the...

(1913-1998)4th Field Regiment, New Zealand Division At the beginning of the Second World War,...

(1913-1998) 4th Field Regiment, New Zealand Division At the beginning of the war, Captain...

(1922-2011) Trooper, 46th Reconnaissance (Recce) Corps Robert Calvey, a trooper in the 46th...

Australian Imperial ForcesMalcolm was only 18 years old when he decided to enlist. At the end of...

(1920 – 2000) Lieutenant British Royal Engineers John was captured on 6 June 1944 during the...

(1895 – 1965) Lieutenant, Royal Air Force John Leeming was a businessman and a writer with a...

(1918-1994) Pilot South African Air Force Jeffrey, a South African, was captured in Libya on 4...

(1922-2001) 2/32 Australian Infantry BattalionIan was only 18 when he decided to enlist on his...

Royal Artillery Ronald, a lieutenant, enlisted in March 1940. In August 1941, he was put in charge...

Six South African Infantry Brigade Laurie du Preez, a policeman, enlisted in the 6th South African...

Lieutenant Royal NavyJohn was captured on 29 June 1941 near Sirte with his comrades. He was...

11° Battaglione Commando Royal MarinesAfter enlisting in 1939, Harry joined the Royal Marines,...

(1913-1989) Gunner, 2/3rd Anti-Tank Regiment, Australian ArmyCarl, with his brother Paul and his...

(1919- 1998), 67th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery Bert was enlisted on 20 September 1939, when...

Major, 1st Airborne Divisional SignalsMajor Deane-Drummond, Royal Corps of Signals, was among the...

AWM 54 11/12/30/20William James Parlett, an Australian from Adelaide who, during peacetime, worked...

WO 208/3325/48Stanley Skinner, Corporal in the 7th Armoured Division of the 2nd Middlesex...

Imperial War Museums 25573Robert Sydney Jones[1] was born in Perth, Australia, in 1916. An...

WO 208/3324/166Richard Crawsney Partridge, a Welsh farmer serving in North Africa, was captured in...

WO 208/3315/8Lieutenant Norman Charles Johnson, a cotton broker living in Cheshire, was captured...

WO 208/3320/48Major-General Michael Denman Gambier-Parry, a long-standing member of the British...

WO 208/3316/1587Brigadier James Hargest was part of the New Zealander expeditionary corps and was...

WO 208/3324/112Major Jack Pritchard, Royal Tank Regiment, was most likely captured in North Africa...

WO 208/3320/65 Petty Officer Henry William Cantle was captured on 15 June 1942, when the HMS...

WO 208/3325/60 Eric Morris, who in peacetime worked as a storeman for a post office, was captured...

WO 208/3324/141; WO 208/3324/138 Edward Henry Duke, born in 1916, worked as a borough council...

WO 208/3325/59 Lance Sergeant David Neil, a Scot from Alloa, a small village near Edinburgh, was...

WO 208/3315/6 Claude Weaver, an American student from Oklahoma, is among the youngest escaped PoWs...

WO 208/3317/1695 Claude Max Vallentin, Brigadier of the 5th Indian Division, was captured on 5...

WO 208/3324/6Before the war, Charles Clifford Norden (born in 1917) was a shipyard worker in...