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*Upper Topa, near  [[Murree]]
*Upper Topa, near  [[Murree]]
(Information mainly from the Anglo Boer War Museum website)
(Information mainly from the Anglo Boer War Museum website)
Catalogue reference [[BACSA]] Archive at the [[British Library]] Ceylon: Boer POW Camp Mss Eur F370/785


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*Fort William, [[Calcutta]], army camp, closed early 1940, males were sent to [[Ahmadnagar|Ahmednagar]], females to Katapahar parole camp.
*Fort William, [[Calcutta]], army camp, closed early 1940, males were sent to [[Ahmadnagar|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.  
*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.  
Catalogue reference [[BACSA]] Archive at the [[British Library]] India: Italian POW Camps Mss Eur F370/853


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*This British Library [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/indiaofficeselect/PhotoShowDescs.asp?CollID=1092  catalogue entry] indicates  some photographs of the Italian prisoners of war camp at Bairagarh (Bhopal) are in the collection.
*This British Library [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/indiaofficeselect/PhotoShowDescs.asp?CollID=1092  catalogue entry] indicates  some photographs of the Italian prisoners of war camp at Bairagarh (Bhopal) are in the collection.
*[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
*[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


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Revision as of 22:42, 12 August 2013

Prisoner of War and Internment Camps in India

Boer War

Until April 1901 the British captured approx 25,000 Boers. Of these various numbers were sent to various places as POWs.Only a total of 9000 Boer POWs were ever sent out to India of this number, and they were held in some 14-15 camps in selected Indian cantonments.[1]

In India, there were Boer prisoners of war camps at

(Information mainly from the Anglo Boer War Museum website)

Catalogue reference BACSA Archive at the British Library Ceylon: Boer POW Camp Mss Eur F370/785

External links

Historical books online

First World War

Historical books online

External links

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
  • 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.

Catalogue reference BACSA Archive at the British Library India: Italian POW Camps Mss Eur F370/853

External links

German prisoners of war

Italian prisoners of war

References

  1. ↑ Email to FIBIS Webmaster dated 8 Novemebr 2012 from Prof Omer SK Tarin. Director, TSI, Abbottabad, Pakistan.

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