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• Worsley, John (IWM interview)

  (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 1978

  British civilian artist served as midshipman aboard HMS Laurentic on Northern Patrol, 1939-1940; officer served aboard HMS Lancaster in Atlantic, 1940-1941 and aboard HMS Devonshire in Indian Ocean and Mediterranean, 1941-1943; served with Special...

• Moran, James Michael (IWM interview)

  (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 1991-02-17

  British officer served aboard HMS Malvernian in Atlantic, 1940-1941 including sinking 1941; POW in Marlag and Milag Nord, Stalag VIII B, Lamsdorf and Oflag IV C, Colditz in Germany, 1941-1945

• Hoggard, John Wellesley (IWM interview)

  (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 1996-11-06

  British officer served aboard HMS Voltaire in Mediterranean and Atlantic, 1939-1941 including sinking by German raider Thor, 4/4/1941; POW in Stalag X B, Sandbostel, Marlag Nord and Oflag IV C, Colditz in Germany, 1941-1942

• IWM interview

  (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 1984

  British officer served with 29 Sqdn Royal Flying Corps on Western Front, 1917; POW in Germany, 1917-1918. Served as Head of Air Staff Department, Secret Intelligence Service in London, 1929-1945

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  (sound) Made by: Lane, Tony (Production company) 1988

  British civilian worked as bell-boy and waiter aboard Merchant Navy passenger ships in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, 1933-1939; served with Merchant Navy in Atlantic and Mediterranean, 1939-1942; survived sinking of HMHS Gloucester Castle in south...

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  (sound) Made by: BBC T28047 (Production company) 1940-02-23

  Speech by British First Lord of the Admiralty at London Guildhall luncheon for officers and men of HMS Ajax and HMS Exeter, 23/Feb/1940. Battle of River Plate tributes. Rescue of British POWs from Altmark by HMS Cossack "...amid the tangles of one-sided...

• Adventures as Prisoner on Sea and Land

  (sound) Made by: BBC (Production company) 1941-08-28

  British officer served with Merchant Navy aboard SS Mopan account of period as POW aboard Admiral von Scheer, Nordmark and in France and escape through France, 1940-1941

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  (sound) Made by: BBC (Production company) 1941-09-18

  British engineer served with Merchant Navy aboard Doric Star in Atlantic account of capture, period as POW aboard Graf Spee and Altmark and rescue by HMS Cossack in Norway, 1939-1940 [in Welsh]

• Zarod, Kazimierz Adam (IWM interview)

  (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 1991-02-12

  Polish civilian worked as civil servant in Poland, 1939; inmate in Labour Camps 21 and 17, Pechova, Russia, 1940-1941; private served with Polish Army in Russia and Persia, 1941-1942

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  (sound) Made by: Lane, Tony (Production company) 1988

  British civilian seaman served on Duquesa, captured by Admiral Scheer, 1940; POW in Bordeaux and Milag Nord 1940-1945