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*[http://grandeguerre.icrc.org
Prisoners Of The First World War-
ICRC Historical Records]. International Committee of the Red Cross. Includes a free Search facility. Retrieved 4 August 2014
** The International Prisoners-of-War Agency. The ICRC in World War One. [https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/other/icrc_002_0937.pdf html version], [http://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/other/icrc_002_0937.pdf pdf] An eleven page 2007 document setting out the type of records available. Retrieved 4 August 2014
*[https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=8DF1E713C2B47BF5!568&ithint=file%2cpdf&app=WordPdf&authkey=!AEkNEeEoAkHHztY Finding Aid: Foreign Office Files (FO 383) at the National Archives: Regarding Military & Civilian Prisoners of War: List of Files and Contents: 1915-1919]. Compiled September 2014 by seaforths<ref> seaforths [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=218552&hl= "Foreign Office Files on POWs (FO 383)"] ''Great War Forum'' 30 September 2014. Retrieved 30 September 2014</ref> Contains a FIND (Search) function. onedrive.live.com. Retrieved 30 September 2014. Contains references such as
**Reference: FO 383/20 1915. Description: Germany: Prisoners, including: Correspondence regulations at Ahmednagar, India: includes printed copy of Memorandum issued by the Adjutant General in India (in docket no.147691).
**Reference: FO 383/436 1918 Description: Germany: Prisoners, including: Lists (in docket nos. 97151 and 109002) of German civilians transferred from East Africa to camps at Ahmednagar and Belgaum, India, with printed correspondence relating to individual cases.
*[http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/feature/2013/india-first-mission-1917.htm India: first mission led to long tradition of humanitarian action in Asia] icrc.org. Includes photograph taken at Belgaum, WW1.
*Turkish POWs at [[Deolali]] are mentioned in [http://www.awm.gov.au/journal/j36/nurses.asp Reading between unwritten lines: Australian Army nurses in India, 1916-19] by Ruth Rae. Australian War Memorial website. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131020125644/https://www.awm.gov.au/journal/j36/nurses.asp archive.org] link)
*[http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/157879132 Photograph of a Group of Italian POWs at the Ramgarh POW camp in northern India 1942]. [http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/157879134 Group of Italian POWs about to begin a soccer game at the Ramgarh POW camp in northern India 1942] trove.nla.gov.au
==Records at the =====British Library===Records include
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-r4&cid=1-1#1-1 United Kingdom High Commission files relating to cemeteries '''IOR/R/4/1-539'''] 1943-1967. Transferred from Indian Public Works Department to the British High Commission, New Delhi, and from there to the India Office Records in 1972-73. As they were originally Public Works Department files, they may not often (if at all) refer to individuals.
**File 18/3/1 General correspondence on prisoner of war graves IOR/R/4/102 Dec 1947-Feb 1951
**File 18/4/1 Correspondence on German prisoner of war graves in India IOR/R/4/115 Dec 1952-Jul 1953
:Note these records are available on [[LDS]] microfilm <ref>Microfilm catalogue entry [https://familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=1112010&disp=British+High+Commission+cemetery+records%20%20&columns=*,0,0 British High Commission cemetery records, ca. 1870-1967] </ref> where there is more detail provided about the individual items, in the "Film Notes" and is indicated there are at least some lists of prisoner-of-war graves. As an example “R/4/102-103 Correspondence regarding prisoner-of-war graves (frames 1213-1222, 1325-1327, 1339, 1358, 1397, 1401-1402 include a list of prisoner-of-war graves, as well as 33rd Duke of Wellington's Regiment. Also includes list of cemeteries that include German, Boer, Italian, and Turkish graves), ca. 1947-1954” ===The National Archives===*[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7697 FO 383 Foreign Office: Prisoners of War and Aliens Department: General Correspondence from 1906] Includes references to camps in India.
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