POW Stories

This section of the site is devoted to stories told by those held captive inside POW camps or by those who guarded them, contributed either by the individuals themselves or by their families from notes or diaries that they had compiled. If you have such information to hand and would like to see it on the site, please write to me at pegasusarchive@googlemail.com or see the Wanted section for further details.

Name	Nat.	Date	Camp
Pte Les Allen	Britain	1940-45	Stalag XXA and B, XIB
Pte Ralph Amato	Britain	1940-45	Stalag XXB
Pte Charles Andrews	Britain	1940-43	Stalag VIIIB
Pte Walter Alan Armstrong	Britain	1942-45	Stalag IVF
Sgt Maurice Askew	Britain	1944-45	Dulag Luft, Stalag Luft 6, Stalag 357
W/O James Badcock	Britain	1942-45	Stalag VIIIB / 344, IXC
S/Sgt Eugene Bailey	United States	1944-45	Stalag IXA and B
L/Cpl John Baxter	Britain	1944-45	Unknown
Pte Sydney Bebbington	Britain	1942-45	Stalag XVIIIA
Pte George Beck	Britain	1940-45	Stalag VIIIB / 344
L/Cpl Robert Beesley	Britain	1940-45	Stalag XXB
Gnr John Bell	Britain	1942-45	Stalag IVC
Gnr Leonard Bellas	Britain	1941-45	Stalag IVC
L/Cpl Jack Bird	Britain	1944-45	Stalag VIIIC, IXB, XIIA
S/Sgt Ralph Gordon Bishop	Britain	1944-45	Stalag VIIIC, IXB, XIB
S/Sgt Bernard Black	Britain	1944-45	Dulag Luft, Stalag Luft I
Able Seaman Peter Boast	Britain	1943-45	Marlag und Milag Nord
T/Sgt Edward Bohde	United States	1944-45	Stalag IVB, VIIIA, IXC
Sgt Basil Borthwick	New Zealand	?-1945	Stalag VIIIA
L/Cpl Harry James Bounden	Britain	1942-45	Stalag VIIIB / 344
F/Lt Peter Brown	New Zealand	1945	Oflag VIIB
Tpr Jack Budd	Britain	1941-45	Stalag IVF
S/Sgt Warren C. Burford	United States	1944-45	Stalag IVB, VIIIA, XIB
Spr Tom Carpenter	Britain	1944-45	Stalag XIB
PFC John Ceney	United States	1944-45	Stalag IIB
Pte Joe Chamberlain	Britain	1940-45	Stalag XXA, XXB
Pte George Charlton	Britain	1940-45	Stalag VIIIB / 344
Gnr Robbie Clark	Britain	1942-45	Stalag VIIIB / 344
Lt Walter Cloutman	Australia	1942-45	Stalag VIIA, Oflag 79
Cpl Walter Collings	Britain	1944-45	Stalag VIIIC
W/O Basil Cotton	Britain	1941-45	Dulag Luft, Stalag Luft VI, Stalag XIB
Pte Tom Davies	Britain	1944-45	Stalag IVB
Lt Donald Douglass	Australia	1944-45	Oflag 79
Pte John Duffy	Britain	1944-45	Stalag VIIIC, XIB
Pte John Dunlop	Britain	1944-45	Stalag XIB
WOI Jack Elworthy	New Zealand	1941-45	Stalag VIIIB / 344
PFC James Farmer	United States	1944-45	Stalag IIIB
Lt Duncan Ferguson	Britain	1942-45	Oflag 79
Pte Les Foskett	Britain	1940-45	Stalag VIIIB / 344, 383
Sgt Ron Garnham	Britain	1944-45	Stalag IVB, XIIA
Pte Bill Gibbard	Britain	1944-45	Stalag IV?, XIIA
Sgt Jack Gilbert	Britain	1941-45	Stalag IVA, IVB
Pte Harry Goodall	Britain	1940-45	Stalag XXA and B
PFC John Halada	United States	1944-45	Stalag VIIA
Pte Vernon George Hart	South Africa	1942-45	Stalag VIIIC
Pte Alan Harvey	Britain	1941-45	Stalag XVIIIA
Sgt Mort Herbert	United States	1945	Stalag IVB
Pte William Hewitt	Britain	1944-45	Stalag XIB
Cpl Gordon Hines	Britain	1942-45	Stalag VIIIB / 344
Gnr Laurence Holmes	Britain	1942-45	Stalag VIIIB
Bdr Mike Jackson	Canada	1942-45	Stalag 383
Pte David Jebbit	Britain	1944-45	Stalag IVB
Lt Bruce Jeffrey	Britain	1944-45	Stalag IXC
Bertram Jones	Britain	1940-45	Stalag XXA
F/Sgt Henry Jones	Britain	1944-45	Stalag Luft VII, Stalag IIIA
W/O Peter Jones	Britain	1942-45	Dulag Luft Stalags VIIIB, IIIA, Luft III
Sgt Wilburn Keel	United States	1945	Unknown
Pte Edward Klein	Australia	1941-45	Stalag 383
Tpr Gilbert Knott	Britain	1942-45	Stalag IVB, IVF
Pvt Frank Kobilis	United States	1944-45	Stalag IIB, XIIA
Pte William Law	Britain	1940-45	Stalag XXA
L/Cpl Ivor Lipscombe	Britain	1940-45	Stalag IA, XXB
Capt Anthony Lister	Britain	1940-45	Oflag VIIB
Lt Arvian David Llewellyn-Jones	Britain	1944-45	Oflag 79
Steve Loper	United States	1942-45	Stalag Luft III, Stalags IIA and B
Gnr Robert McBride	Britain	1942-45	PG 78, Stalag XIA
S/Sgt John McGeough	Britain	1944-45	Stalag VIIIC, IXB, XIB
Israel Machtey	Poland	1941-45	Unknown
Harold Marsh	United States	1944-45	Stalag IVB, XIIA, IIIC
Sgmn Jack Mepham	Britain	1941-44	Stalag VIIIB / 344
L/Cpl Jim Miller	New Zealand	1941-45	Stalag VIIIB / 344
Pte Fred Moore	Britain	1944-45	Stalag XIB
E.R.A. William Morris	Britain	1943-45	Marlag und Milag Nord
Pte Albert Nelson	Britain	1940-45	Stalag XXB
Pte Jean O'Brien	Canada	1942-45	Stalag IXC
L/Sgt Harold Padfield	Britain	1944-45	Stalag XIIA, XVIIIC
L/Cpl David Parker	Britain	1940-45	Stalag XXA, XXB
T/Sgt Ellis Pierson	United States	1944-45	Dulag Luft (Wetzlar), Stalag VIIA
PFC William Pinkney III	United States	1945	Stalag 383
Pte William Pledger	Britain	1940-45	Stalag VIIIB / 344, XXB
L/Cpl Peter Prebble	Britain	1941-45	Stalag IVF
W/O Keith Prowd	Australia	1944-45	Stalag Luft VII
Sgt Gareth Prytherch	Britain	1943-45	Dulag Luft, Stalag IVB
Pvt Charles Raney	United States	1944-45	Stalag IIA, IVB
Spr Les Robertson	New Zealand	1941-45	Oflag IXA/Z
Sgt Richard Rowe	Britain	1945	Stalag XIB
Gdsm Charles Saunders	Britain	1940-45	Stalag VIIIB / 344
Cpl Harold Scharfe	Canada	1942-45	Stalag VIIIB / 344
Lt Edmund Scrivener	Britain	1944-45	Oflag 79
Sgt Norman Shute	Australia	1941-45	Stalag VIIIB / 344
Cpl Joh Smeeth	Britain	1940-45	Stalags VIIIA, VIIIB / 344, XIB
Sgt Douglas Smithson	Britain	1944-45	Stalags IIIA, XIIA, Stalag Luft VII
L/Cpl James Speight	Britain	1943-45	Stalag IVB
Pte Allan George Surgeson	South Africa	1942-45	Stalags IVB
Pte Norman Taylor	Britain	1940-45	Stalags XXB
Sgmn Stanley Taylor	Britain	1944-45	Stalag XIB, Oflag 79
Sgt Bert Tennuci	Britain	1944-45	Stalags VIIIC, XIB
T/Sgt Eugene Van Loozenoord	United States	1944-45	Dulag Luft (Wetzlar), Stalag Luft IV
S/Sgt Earl Verham	United States	1944-45	Stalag IXA
L/Cpl Robert Warren	Britain	1944-45	Stalags VIIA, VIIIC
T/5 Rishel White	United States	1944-45	Stalag IVB
Pte Jonathan Wilkinson	Britain	1943-45	Stalag VIIIA
Tpr Joseph Winterbottom	Britain	1941-45	Stalags IVB
Lt Reg Wood	Britain	1940-45	Oflags VB, VIB, VIIB, VIIC, Stalags VIIA, XXID
Gnr Ronald Wollaston	Britain	1941-44	Stalag XVIIIA
Pte Horace Woods	New Zealand	1942-45	Stalag VIIIB / 344
Gdsm George Wyatt	Britain	1940-45	Stalag VIIIB / 344

Name	Nat.	Date	Camp
Sgt Len Baynes	Britain	1942-45	Changi
Ted Freeman	Britain	1942-45	Rangoon Jail
Lt Alec Gibson	Britain	1943-45	Rangoon Jail
Gnr Derek Gilbert	Britain	1942-45	Burma Railway
Pte Bruce Holland	Australia	1942-45	Changi
Bill Notley	Britain	1941-45	Singapore, Kinkaseki
Reginald Herbert Rudd	Britain	1942-45	Burma Railway
E. Samuel	Britain	1942-45	Burma Railway
Rfn Leslie Spoors	Britain	1942-45	Rangoon Jail