POW: Diary of a Prisoner of War
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David Nell was taken prisoner in North Africa on 28 June Although he was almost illiterate until his teens, he was keen to learn, and read widely to achieve it. Later, as a prisoner of war, he used this diary to continue this process. He kept the diary throughout his prison-camp life, until his eventual release in April , and it is remarkably well written.
POW: Diary of a Prisoner of War
What emerges from this immensely moving and personal account is far different from the picture suggested by the movies. It tells of poor conditions and deprivation, and the hopes, fears and preoccupations of those many prisoners in Germany and Italy, and something of the lives of those who guarded them. Kindle Edition , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about POW , please sign up.
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David Nell's memoirs of his life as a soldier in the s and as a POW in Italy and Germany after his capture are reproduced verbatim, it seems, from his daily diary entries. The Japs spread out each side of the Rd. Cottrell, Foster, Pearce, Stevens missing. Winterton lost right hand. At Christmas, the British garrison surrendered, with survivors becoming prisoners of war, and 2, civilians, including Mr Jones, interned in a camp in Stanley.
Severe overcrowding and fighting over basic rations riddled with cockroaches and sawdust became a feature of daily life in the camp.
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A number of internees died, some of starvation, and others were executed for trying to escape. But the pressures of the camp and the time spent away from his wife — they were married in — saw him form a friendship with a woman referred to in the diary only as G. He introduced G in mid when he started to do odd jobs for her and offered her some of his rations. Mentions of her became more frequent and they began to spend most evenings together going for walks around the camp.
The war was drawing to an end, however: Hiroshima was bombed three days later and on August 15 Japan surrendered. Mr Jones and G were to remain in the camp for another two weeks before British troops reached Hong Kong on August 29, and that day Mr Jones raised the Union flag he had kept carefully folded under his mattress for the duration of his imprisonment.
On September 3, as he waited for the ship to take him home, he wrote: But the end of internment would turn out to be the end of the affair: Why did I leave you G, pal-o-mine. When G arrived home a few weeks later, she told Mr Jones she wanted to end the relationship, believing it to be for the best. My sister Diana, who was born after the war, and her lovely family would not have existed. Little is known about G, but scrawled on the back of a cigarette paper hidden in the diary is an address for a nursing sister from Southampton called Gwen F Flower.
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Records show she boarded a ship home from Burma in October She died alone in at the age of 88, having never married. Mr Jones died suddenly of cancer in , leaving his daughter, then 16, with unanswered questions about his time as a Japanese prisoner.