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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...

Painter, teacher and also a writer, as occasion arose, Paul Bullard was born in London in 1918. In...

Raymond, a New Zealander, fought against the Axis in Egypt and Greece and was eventually captured...

Royal Regiment of ArtilleryGeorge volunteered in 1940 in Skipton, Yorkshire, when he was 24 years...

Nottinghamshire Sherwood Rangers YeomanryBill enlisted in the Nottinghamshire Sherwood Rangers...

Royal ArtilleryGrenadier John Myers, Royal Artillery, was captured at Marsa Matruh on 29 June...

John Edward Hughes was born in 1917 and was an inspector of jigs and tools before the war. He...

Sapper Albert William Benstead was a carpenter in Cambridgeshire before the war. He was captured,...

Sergeant Major John Gordon Langdon was born in 1915 and was an employee of the oil company Shell...

Second Lieutenant, Royal Army Ordnance Corps – Lieutenant, Royal electrical and Mechanical...

Royal Durban Light Infantry Prisoners of war being marched out of Tobruk shortly after the...

Major Gordon Lett was born in Papua New Guiney to Australian parents (his mother was of Scottish...

Captain «Bobby» Walker-Brown was wounded and captured on 10 June 1942, during the battle of Ai...