| Entry Text: | OAKLEY, Derek. Bagged in World War 2: Two Tales of Royal Marines Prisoners Of War - The Jim Fallace Story And The Diary Of Benjamin Knapton. (Royal Marines Historical Society Special Publication No. 24). 103p., illus. Royal Marines Historical Society, 2001. Fallace was captured in Hong Kong when it fell. He was sunk in the Lisbon Maru en route to Japan and was one of only half a dozen to escape ashore in China and then managed to reach India where he joined the RINVR for the rest of the war. Knapton was born in 1899 and joined the Marines in 1917 and served for twenty-one years. He was recalled to service in 1939 and served in DEMS. He was on s.s. Natia when she was sunk in the South Atlantic by the German raider Thor (listed as Ver in his diary) in October 1940. Rescued by her, he then spent four years in German POW camps. This pamphlet includes his contemporary diary. |
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