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**[http://www.gutenberg-e.org/steuer/archive/AppendixA/turkey/index.html Turkish Prison Camps]. Click on the map for a list of the camps in Turkey.  
**[http://www.gutenberg-e.org/steuer/archive/AppendixA/turkey/index.html Turkish Prison Camps]. Click on the map for a list of the camps in Turkey.  
*[http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2012/D16835/a3901.htm Narrative of  John Wheat] c 1914-1918, who was a torpedoman on the Australian submarine A.E.2  which was sunk 30 April 1915 in the Sea of Marmora (Gallipoli), taken prisoner by the Germans, and subsequently became a prisoner of war in Turkey, working on the construction of the Baghdad Railway.  Transcribed by, and from the collection of the Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW. [http://www.acmssearch.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/itemDetailPaged.cgi?itemID=902088 Photographs and postcards from his album] Click on the tab “Online” to display 8 items.
*[http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2012/D16835/a3901.htm Narrative of  John Wheat] c 1914-1918, who was a torpedoman on the Australian submarine A.E.2  which was sunk 30 April 1915 in the Sea of Marmora (Gallipoli), taken prisoner by the Germans, and subsequently became a prisoner of war in Turkey, working on the construction of the Baghdad Railway.  Transcribed by, and from the collection of the Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW. [http://www.acmssearch.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/itemDetailPaged.cgi?itemID=902088 Photographs and postcards from his album] Click on the tab “Online” to display 8 items.
*[http://theconversation.com/the-forgotten-anzacs-honoured-guests-of-the-sultan-25884 "The forgotten Anzacs: ‘honoured guests’ of the Sultan"]  24 April 2014 theconversation.com. This article also mentions Indian POWs.
====Historical books online====
====Historical books online====
*[https://archive.org/details/prisonersofredde00gwat ''Prisoners of the red desert, being a full and true history of the men of the "Tara"''] by Captain  Rupert Stanley  Gwatkin-Williams RN 1919 Archive.org.  HMS Tara was sunk by a German submarine  near Sollum, Egypt in 1915. The surviving crew  were handed over to the Senussi, allies of the Turks and were held prisoners  at Bir Hakkim (Bir el Hakim) in Libya until rescued in 1916 in dramatic circumstances by British Armoured Cars under the command of the Duke of Westminster.
*[https://archive.org/details/prisonersofredde00gwat ''Prisoners of the red desert, being a full and true history of the men of the "Tara"''] by Captain  Rupert Stanley  Gwatkin-Williams RN 1919 Archive.org.  HMS Tara was sunk by a German submarine  near Sollum, Egypt in 1915. The surviving crew  were handed over to the Senussi, allies of the Turks and were held prisoners  at Bir Hakkim (Bir el Hakim) in Libya until rescued in 1916 in dramatic circumstances by British Armoured Cars under the command of the Duke of Westminster.

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Officers who were captured were generally treated better than “other ranks”, who almost always experienced terrible conditions often leading to death.

Mesopotamia

For many accounts of members of the allied forces taken prisoner in Mesopotamia, especially after the fall of Kut, see Mesopotamia Campaign-External links and Historical books online

Other

External links

Historical books online

References

  1. seaforths "Foreign Office Files on POWs (FO 383)" Great War Forum 30 September 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2015.