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**page 57 [http://www.archive.org/stream/reportsonbritish00inteuoft#page/56/mode/2up Camp for Convalescents at Schwebo], Burma. Turkish prisoners of war.
**page 57 [http://www.archive.org/stream/reportsonbritish00inteuoft#page/56/mode/2up Camp for Convalescents at Schwebo], Burma. Turkish prisoners of war.
**page 59 [http://www.archive.org/stream/reportsonbritish00inteuoft#page/58/mode/2up Quarantine Camp Rangoon], Burma.  Turkish prisoners of war.
**page 59 [http://www.archive.org/stream/reportsonbritish00inteuoft#page/58/mode/2up Quarantine Camp Rangoon], Burma.  Turkish prisoners of war.
*The POW Camps are mentioned on [http://www.archive.org/stream/undertenviceroys00woodiala#page/206/mode/2up pages 211-212], ''Under Ten Viceroys: the Reminiscences of a Gurkha'' by Major-General Nigel Woodyatt  1922 Archive.org
*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


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Prisoner of War and Internment Camps in India

Boer War

In India, there were Boer prisoners of war camps at

(Information mainly from the Anglo Boer War Museum website)

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First World War

Historical books online

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Second World War

The Prisoners-of-war were interned in India in 29 camps forming 6 Groups of camps. In addition, there were two Civil Internment Camps at Dehradun and Deoli and one camp in Delhi for the Japanese prisoners captured in Burma.

  • Group I – Bangalore: Camps 1 to 8 - Italian prisoners.
  • Group II – Bhopal: Camps 9 to 16 – Italian prisoners. Camp 16 was a hospital. Bhopal Bairagarh (Wikipedia)
  • Group III – Ramgarh: Camps 17 to 20 – German Civil Internees and later Italian prisoners. Had a punishment camp for difficult Italian POWs Ramgarh was near Hazaribagh. It was used as a POW camp up to May 1942 when the POWs were moved out and the United States Chinese Training Command was established there.
  • Group IV - Clement Town (Dehra Dun): Camps 21 to 24 – Separated in Wings 1: pro-Nazi, 2: anti-Nazi, 3: Italians. One of the camps was a *Central Internment Camp.
  • Group V – YOL: Camps 25 to 28 – Italian prisoners. Yol was situated near Dharamsala (Wikipedia)
  • Group VI – Bikaner: Camp 29 – Japanese prisoners. It was also a punishment camps for difficult Italian POWs.Bikaner (Wikipedia)
  • Central Internment Camp (Dehra Dun / Premnagar): This was mixed civilian internment and prisoner-of-war camp. Italian prisoners of war and German civilian internees housed in separate camps. Wing 1 and Wing 6 held German internees.
  • Delhi – Japanese Camp: Delhi housed the Japanese prisoners captured in Burma.
  • Deoli – Civil Internment Camp: Deoli housed German civilian internees and Japanese civilian internees. It was also a punishment colony for Germans. Deoli (Wikipedia)

The above information is mainly taken from the website Indian Banknote:India: Prisoner-of-War Coupons

This Wikipedia article lists the following additional camps

  • Deolali from February 1941, later also transferred to Dehra Dun 11 August 1941: Germans.
  • Yercaud for females from Madras Presidency. Summer 1941, closed late 1942.
  • Fort William, Calcutta, army camp, closed early 1940, males were sent to Ahmednagar, females to Katapahar parole camp.
  • Smaller Parole Camps at Naini Tal, Kodaikanal and Katapahar (near Darjeeling), were all closed by late 1942. Inmates transferred to (family reunions) to the camps near Poona: Satara from May 1940, Purandhar (lower Fort), initially for Jewish refugees, later also other Germans, many missionaries with families.

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German prisoners of war

Italian prisoners of war