Hilda Anderson to Eileen Turner "Well my girl to be a Prisoner of War is not all honey but Ted can take it and after the War Please God everything will be made up to him." Sent from: Plaistow E13, East London
Ted Woods to Jean Woods "I have been through a terrible chapter in my life and I would sooner be dead than go through it again." Sent from: Frontstalag 221, France
John Scearce to Fanny Wakefield "Well I suppose you know that I'm a POW now and believe me it's a very dull life so I hope you'll write to me now and again." Sent from: Stalag 17a, Austria Date of letter: 9 April 1944
Alan Ronald Cook to his mother Gladys Lavinia Cook "We are all like a lot of old women as regard to talking trivialities and as far as rumours - we lap any up!" Sent from: Stalag VIIIB, west Poland Date of letter: 12 March 1943
Sgt R Exley to Corporal Mary Eileen Littler WAAF "I'm very well thanks, cheerful too. Hope to be back in Blighty soon. Imagine it - I'm on the water-waggon - me!" Sent from: Stalag Luft 3
Peggy Horton’s letters "Someone so vital as old Peter is no more - but he's at peace before us and will happy waiting for Pam to join him one day." Sent from: Various
Flt Lt Oliver Philpot to Mrs Nathalie Philpot "It was nice getting below in the dry and warm, and the hot soup was good" Sent from: Prisoner of War camp OFFLAG XXI-B, Poland
Horace William Mills to his wife "Eating all I can get which is not very much in fact we are nearly feeding ourselves." Sent from: Thailand Date of letter: 29 March 1943
Dr Robert Wise Holden Tincker to Kathleen Tincker "Our dreams have certainly come true, the nightmare is over and I am on my way home!" Sent from: Yokohama, Japan Date of letter: 18 September 1945
Leonard Walter Knott to Joan Kingham "We go from Bangkok to Rangoon by air, perhaps tomorrow then home." Sent from: Thailand Date of letter: 23 September 1945