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====Prisoners of War====
===== ICRC Archives=====
*[http://grandeguerre.icrc.org Prisoners of the First World War - ICRC Archives]. Free online records of the International Committee of the Red Cross. These records may be quite complex to search, and there are many helpful hints about searching on the Great War Forum.<ref>Evers, Maureen David_Underdown et al. [http://archiver.rootsweb1914-1918.ancestryinvisionzone.com/thforums/readindex.php?/INDIAtopic/2015215376-red-cross-records-to-go-01online-4-august/1421673008 Online WW1 Red Cross records (two free datasets)to go online 4 August] ''Rootsweb India Mailing ListGreat War Forum'' 19 January 20152 August 2014. BillyH et al. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160827022945/http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/242522-icrc-records-help-please/ ICRC Records - Help please] ''Great War Forum'' 27 August 2016. Retrieved 20 January 201528 August 2016.</ref> There is also some information on the Long, Long Trail Forum "Researching prisoners of war".<ref> [http://www.1914-1918.org/forum/index.php Long, Long, Trail Forum]</ref> The records include soldiers of the Indian Army taken as POWs on the Western Front and sent to Germany.*[https://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/icrc-archives/ ICRC Archives] in Geneva has records for the [[Second World War]]. However, due to other priorities, research requests were suspended from May 2016, except for requests of a humanitarian nature.
=====Other=====
*[[Findmypast|findmypast]] includes a database "Prisoners Of War 1715-1945" (located in Armed forces & conflict/Regimental & service records) which appears to contain some records from The National Archives records FO 383, including some for Indian Army soldiers.
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