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*''List of Places of Internment'' produced by the Prisoners of War Information Bureau in 1919 is an alphabetical listing of Prisoner-of-War camps in Britain and the Commonwealth during the First World War. It is available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/lists-of-places-of-internment-2/ ''List of Places of Internment''] Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 titled [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19aXfvGiL4 ''Prisoners of War Information Bureau: List of Places of''] (located in World War II/Military Books/Britain, letter P)
:Nineteen camps were in this 1919 (January) list in India:
:Ahmednagar, Bankura, Belgaum, Bellary, Colaba War Hospital, Cumballa War Hospital, 34th General Hosp (Deolali), 44th General Hosp (Deolali), Indian Troops War Hosp Poona, Indian Troops War Hosp Marine Lines Bombay, Nowgong, Thayetmyo (in Burma), Meiktila (also Burma), Takdah <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Darjeeling]] area], Sholapur, Yercaud, Poona Military Prison, Victoria War Hospital Bombay, Sumerpur.<ref>gmark. [http://c-c-s-g.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32#p66 India- WWI POW camps] ''Civil Censorship Study Group Forum'' 11 December 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2019.</ref> In addition, a 1915 postcard from Dinapur addressed to Germany had been seen with a " Prisoner of War Mail " caption on it. *[https://indianculture.gov.in/archives/list-enemy-subjects-interned-civil-detention-camps ''List of Enemy Subjects Interned in Civil Detention Camps. Home Department March 1918'']. The camps included are Takdah, Berhampore, Bankura, all Bengal Presidency, Belgaum, Bombay Presidency, and Yercaud, Madras Presidency. From the National Archives of India, reference File No.: HOME_POLITICAL_A_1918_MAR_93-95 indianculture.gov.in . Some pages may be difficult to view on a fixed computer screen as the pages are "on their side".
*The POW Camps are mentioned on [http://www.archive.org/stream/undertenviceroys00woodiala#page/210/mode/2up pages 211-212], ''Under Ten Viceroys: the Reminiscences of a Gurkha'' by Major-General Nigel Woodyatt 1922 Archive.org
*"Australian Nurses in India 1916-1919". Scroll to page 124, [https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/With-Horse-and-Morse.pdf ''With Horse and Morse in Mesopotamia: The Story of Anzacs in Asia''] edited by Keast Burke 1927. Includes a list of the main WW1 hospitals in India, and there are mentions of the treatment of Turkish POWs at these hospitals. Some of NZsappers.org.nz has two digital files/series, the first contains some digital pages which are of very poor quality and are illegible. The second series of files from nzsappers.org.nz [https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Pages-1-70.pdf Pages 1-70], [https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Pages-71-132.pdf pages 71-132]; [https://www. nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Pages-133-206.pdf pages 133-206]. Also see External links, below.
*[https://archive.org/details/furthercorrespon00grea ''Further correspondence respecting the proposed release of civilians interned in the British and German empires. (In continuation of "Miscellaneous, no. 35 (1916)": Cd. 8352.)''] HMSO, London 1917. Presented to both Houses of Parliament January 1917. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/agreementbetween00ingrea ''Agreement between the British and Ottoman governments respecting prisoners of war and civilians''] Presented to Parliament April 1918 HMSO. Archive.org
