Various family members (Barwells)

• Main Author: Their Finest Hour Project Team
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: British history; European history (excl. British; classical Greek and Roman); International history; Their Finest Hour; World War Two; Asia; Asian; Britain; British; British Empire; Child; Childhood; Children; Civilian; Civilians; Dad's Army; Empire; Home Front; Home Guard; Japan; Japanese; POW; POWs; Prison Camp; Prisoner; Prisoners; Prisoners of War; Singapore; South East Asia; Volunteer; Volunteers; Arctic; Carr; Two Brothers
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.25446/oxford.25934689.v1; https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/Various_family_members_Barwells_/25934689

Various family members served in the war. Janie had six uncles (Joe who had seven in WW1), his two brothers who had been a firefighter and in arctic convoys, and John Barwell had served with the BEF. She had one aunt (Barbara Noon) who had been an ex-pat in Singapore but had to leave with child when Japanese attacked. Her husband, Henry Noon, was captured by the Japanese and made a POW. Grandfather was in the Home Guard. Uncle Brian Carr was a paratrooper at Arnhem, but captured. Escaped seven times from Germans. Other Uncle - Dean Carr - was a POW for the whole of the war.