The Wartime Memories Project - The Second War

This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you agree to accept cookies. If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation.     Site Home     WW2 Home     Add Stories     WW2 Search     Library     Help & FAQs  WW2 Features     Airfields     Allied Army     Allied Air Forces     Allied Navy     Axis Forces     Home Front     Battles     Prisoners of War     Allied Ships     Women at War     Those Who Served     Day-by-Day     Library     The Great War  Submissions     Add Stories     Time Capsule     TWMP on Facebook     Childrens Bookshop  FAQ's     Help & FAQs     Glossary     Volunteering     Contact us     News     Bookshop     About Advertisements World War 2 Two II WW2 WWII 1939 1945

500657 Pte. Arthur J. Booker Army Royal West Kent Regiment Back row (left to right): 1) unknown 2) Wally Symes 3) Arthur Booker, 4) unknown 5) Mick Dowling Front row (left to right): 1) Gerry Rush 2) Dick Berryman 3) Les Botcher 4) Ginger Kett 5) Jimmy Beatle. WHERE ARE THEY NOW? I joined the British Army in Nineteen Thirty-Nine I really did enjoy myself and thought that life was fine But in France I was captured a Royal West Kent Pride of the Army but to Deutschland I went. Into a big Stalag they called it VIII B We had breakfast, no dinner and no blooming tea They sent us out working we were just skin and bone And Mittenbruck Silesia became our new home There I met lots of pals t'was long, long ago But where are they now that's what I'd like to know Gerry Rush and Mick Dowling slept in the next bed And a fellow called Andrews he slept overhead. Sgt. Don Eager or Edgar I'm never quite sure He helped me a lot when conditions were poor And young Ginger Kett with his mout organ band Called Kat and his Kit-Kats were really quite grand And to all other chaps who were held by the "Hun" In that little old camp called E91 If you remember ole Book and Benny his mate Then let's get in touch before it's too late! This is a poem written by my Father, Arthur Booker, if anyone remembers him or his fellow POW's please get in touch. Barbara Jutsum Add to this record.  Related Content: E91 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Mittenbruck Silesia E91 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Mittenbruck, Silesia. E94 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Emilienhoff. limestone quarry Royal West Kent Regiment (Queens own) Can you help us to add to our records? Add a record to our website. The names and stories on this website have been submitted by their relatives and friends. If your relations are not listed please add their names so that others can read about them Did you or your relatives live through the Second World War? Do you have any photos, newspaper clippings, postcards or letters from that period? Have you researched the names on your local or war memorial? Were you or your relative evacuated? Did an air raid affect your area? If so please let us know. Help us to build a database of information on those who served both at home and abroad so that future generations may learn of their sacrifice. Contact us. Celebrate your own Family History Celebrate by honouring members of your family who served in the Secomd World War both in the forces and at home. We love to hear about the soldiers, but also remember the many who served in support roles, nurses, doctors, land army, muntions workers etc. Please use our Family History resources to find out more about your relatives. Then please send in a short article, with a photo if possible, so that they can be remembered on these pages.

The free section of the Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers. We have been helping people find out more about their relatives wartime experiences since 1999 by recording and preserving recollections, documents, photographs and small items. The website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources and we currently have a huge backlog of submissions. If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small to help with the costs of keeping the site running. Hosted by: The Wartime Memories Project Website is archived for preservation by the British Library Copyright MCMXCIX - MMXXIV - All Rights Reserved We do not permit the use of any content from this website for the training of LLMs or for use in Generative AI, it also may not be scraped for the purpose of creating other websites.