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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.
*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
*[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
