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*[[Trichinopoly]]
*[[Umballa]], now Ambala.
*Upper Topa, near [[Murree]]
(Information mainly from the Anglo Boer War Museum website)
*[http://www.angloboerwar.com/other-information/89-prisoner-of-war-camps/1840-camp-for-boers-india Camps for Boers - India] angloboerwar.com (This link is found at Miscellaneous information/Prisoner of war camps/ Camps for Boers – India). Also [https://www.angloboerwar.com/other-information/89-prisoner-of-war-camps/1839-camp-for-boers-ceylon-sri-lanka Camps for Boers - Ceylon (Sri Lanka)] and [https://www.angloboerwar.com/other-information/89-prisoner-of-war-camps/1842-camps-for-boers-st-helena Camps for Boers - St Helena].
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130917032246/http://ancestry24.com/boers/ Boers] (ancestry24.com, now archived) includes a section “Boer Prisoners of War – Camps” (scroll down) including general mention of the camps in India.
*Article [https://web.archive.org/web/20160316191705/http://www.jwtc.org.za/resources/docs/salon-volume-2/isabelhofmeyer_southsouthgothic.pdf "South-South Gothic"] by Isabel Hofmeyr, University of the Witwatersrand . jwtc.org.za, now archived. “A haunting tale of suspense featuring a cemetery in the punjab, boer prisoner of war graves, cold war neo-medievalism and much more” . The cemetery at [[Ambala]]. *Article [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.geocities.com/enugareddy/southafrica/1991-1992-Boer_Prisoners_of_War_in_India.pdf "Boer Prisoners Of War In India"] by E S Reddy written in 1991-1992. Now an archived webpage.A download to your computer, which you may need to locate in a downloads folder)
**Contains “Inscriptions on Gravestone at Ambala Cemetery, Ambala, Haryana State, India, for Boer Prisoners of War Who Died At Ambala”.
*Article [http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.geocities.com/enugareddy/southafrica/1999-India_and_the_Anglo-Boer_War.pdf "India and the Anglo-Boer War"] by E S Reddy 29 July 1999 now archived, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130310232326/http://mkgandhi.org/articles/boer_war.htm version from mkgandhi.org], without footnotes
:[http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol113an.html "Boer prisoners of war on the Island of St Helena"] by A J Nathan. ''Military History Journal'' Vol 11 No 3/4 - October 1999. The South African Military History Society.
:*Article [https://web.archive.org/web/20120724205739/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/travel/island-of-no-return/story-e6frg8rf-1226424604109 "Island of no return"] ([[St. Helena]]) by Gavin Bell ''Weekend Australian 14 July 2012'' Travel and Indulgence section, page 1 briefly says "Nothing remains of a prisoner-of-war camp on a high plateau where 6000 Afrikaners were held during the Boer War, but the graves of 156 who never saw their homeland again are carefully tended on a steep hillside. Two granite obelisks bearing their names stand as a memorial ...". Now an archived webpage.
:Also see the Fibiwiki page [[St. Helena]] for additional information about POWs in St. Helena.
*Details of [http://www.pey.co.za/site/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage-ask.tpl&product_id=9&category_id=1&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1&vmcchk=1&Itemid=1 ''The Anglo-Boer War Diaries of Jan Geldenhuys''] Includes the period from April 1902 when he was captured and sent as a prisoner of war to Umballa, where his experiences till 20th November 1902, were documented. He later met up with his father and brother who were POW’s at Bhimtal. The diaries were originally written in High Dutch. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131127124258/http://www.pey.co.za/site/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage-ask.tpl&product_id=9&category_id=1&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1&vmcchk=1&Itemid=1 archive.org] link)
====Historical books online====
*''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. *[https://indianculture.gov.in/archives/list-enemy-subjects-interned-civil-detention-camps ''List of Enemy Subjects Interned in Civil Detention Camps. Home Department March 1918'']. The camps included are Takdah, Berhampore, Bankura, all Bengal Presidency, Belgaum, Bombay Presidency, and Yercaud, Madras Presidency. From the National Archives of India, reference File No.: HOME_POLITICAL_A_1918_MAR_93-95 indianculture.gov.in . Some pages may be difficult to view on a fixed computer screen as the pages are "on their side".
*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
*"Australian Nurses in India 1916-1919". Scroll to page 124, ''With Horse and Morse in Mesopotamia: The Story of Anzacs in Asia'' edited by Keast Burke 1927. Includes a list of the main WW1 hospitals in India, and there are mentions of the treatment of Turkish POWs at these hospitals. NZsappers.org.nz has two digital files/series, the first contains some digital pages which are of very poor quality. The second series of files from nzsappers.org.nz [https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Pages-1-70.pdf Pages 1-70], [https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Pages-71-132.pdf pages 71-132]; [https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Pages-133-206.pdf pages 133-206]. Also see External links, below.
*[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
*[https://archive.org/details/agreementbetween00ingrea ''Agreement between the British and Ottoman governments respecting prisoners of war and civilians''] Presented to Parliament April 1918 HMSO. Archive.org
===External links===
*[http://grandeguerre.icrc.org
Prisoners Of The First World War-
ICRC Historical Archives]. International Committee of the Red Cross. Includes a free Search facility. Retrieved 4 August 2014
** The International Prisoners-of-War Agency. The ICRC in World War One. [https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/other/icrc_002_0937.pdf html version], [http://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/other/icrc_002_0937.pdf pdf] An eleven page 2007 document setting out the type of records available. Retrieved 4 August 2014*[https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=8DF1E713C2B47BF5!568&ithint=file%2cpdf&app=WordPdf&authkey=!AEkNEeEoAkHHztY Finding Aid: Foreign Office Files (FO 383) at the National Archives: Regarding Military & Civilian Prisoners of War: List of Files and Contents: 1915-1919]. Compiled September 2014 by seaforthsof the Great War Forum, and now available as a pdf from that Forum.<ref> seaforths [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/218552-foreign-office-files-on-pows-fo-383/ "?do=findComment&comment=3074906 Foreign Office Files on POWs (FO 383)"] ''Great War Forum'' 30 September 201412 December 2021. Retrieved 13 September 2019December 2021.</ref> Contains a FIND (Search) function. onedrive.live.com. Retrieved 30 September 2014. Contains references such as
**Reference: FO 383/20 1915. Description: Germany: Prisoners, including: Correspondence regulations at Ahmednagar, India: includes printed copy of Memorandum issued by the Adjutant General in India (in docket no.147691).
**Reference: FO 383/436 1918 Description: Germany: Prisoners, including: Lists (in docket nos. 97151 and 109002) of German civilians transferred from East Africa to camps at Ahmednagar and Belgaum, India, with printed correspondence relating to individual cases.
*[http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/feature/2013/india-first-mission-1917.htm India: first mission led to long tradition of humanitarian action in Asia] icrc.org. Includes photograph taken at Belgaum, WW1.
*The POW Camp at [[Belgaum]] is mentioned in the entry for 6 April 1918 1917 from [http://web.archive.org/web/20040407134248/http://home.clara.net/nhpendall/fpdiary.htm The Diary of Frederick Pendall], a member of the [[9th Regiment of Foot|Norfolk regiment ]] who was in Belgaum from March 1917 to March 1918 (archived website).
*[http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/PostCards/gb Postcards of British Camps] includes two of Ahmednagar. grandeguerre.icrc.org. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131128053807/http://www.stampcommunity.org/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=20627 Postcard to Germany from Ahmednagar POW camp 1919] stampcommunity.org, now an archived webpage.
*[http://www.gaebler.info/2014/07/tucher-3/ Ahmednagar] from ''German Missions in British India Nationalism: Case and Crisis in Missions'' by Paul von Tucher 1980. From the website "Gaebler info and Genealogy" section Indien
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120313145717/http://gaebler.info/politik/indien-1.htm Reports of Germans about the time of the First World War in British India] Includes two reports concerning Ahmednager, and reports from missionaries in the camps. In German language, with [https://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20120313145717%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fgaebler.info%2Fpolitik%2Findien-1.htm&edit-text=&act=url Google Translate English version], or Google Chrome provides an automatic translation. From the website "Gaebler info and Genealogy", section Indien. See [[POW Camps in India#Italian prisoners of war|Second World War-Italian prisoners of war]] for comments about Google Translate.
*[http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3072/ ''Prisoners of war and civilian internees captured by British and Dominion forces from the German colonies during the First World War''] by Mahon Murphy. A thesis submitted to the Department of International History of the London School of Economics for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, London, July 2014. The references to India appear to be minor, but Ahmednagar is mentioned on pages 59 and 67, and Belgaum is also mentioned on page 59. There is a map, which includes camps in India and Ceylon, on page 7, with a description on page 9.
*Turkish POWs at [[Deolali]] are mentioned in [http://www.awm.gov.au/journal/j36/nurses.asp Reading between unwritten lines: Australian Army nurses in India, 1916-19] by Ruth Rae. Australian War Memorial website. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131020125644/https://www.awm.gov.au/journal/j36/nurses.asp archive.org] link)
**From notes in the Australian Archives regarding 34 Welsh General Hospital in Deolali : Sister Alma L. Bennett, Matron in 1917, said: ‘containing 3000 beds – 4 hrs train journey from Bombay'. ... Our cases were all from Mesopotamia – some direct – others individually coming from various Bombay Hospitals… We also had 200 Turkish Prisoners of War, almost all Surgical cases, some with shocking wounds – septic.’ Matron Gertrude Davis said: ‘When we became a P. of W. hospital our number of beds was increased to 700, 200 for British and 500 for prisoners as later we had the German prisoners from East Africa also an occasional one from Mespot’. <ref> kjharris. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/112227-concentration-camp-_-deolali/?do=findComment&comment=2022171 Concentration Camp Deolali] ''Great War Forum'' 23 January 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2019. </ref>
:Also see Historical books online, above.
*Turkish POWS on the ship S.S. Ellenga in Bombay Harbour in late December 1915 are mentioned in a poem written by Rifleman John Layton of the 18th Battalion, Rifle Brigade, who wrote "Those barbarious Turkish brutes, who looked a deplorable sight. They were dirty and covered with vermin, dying like rotten sheep"<ref>stiletto_33853 [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/53333-18th-rifle-brigade/ 18th Rifle Brigade] ''Great War Forum'' 30 May 2006 et al. Retrieved 13 September 2019.</ref>
*There was a POW Camp for Turkish prisoners at Kirkee<ref>Huw (Guest PJI777). [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/111506-kirkee-india-april-1919/?do=findComment&comment=2208175 Kirkee India April 1919] ''Great War Forum'' 4 January 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2019.</ref>. It is possible that it was located near a hospital to provide labour for the hospital.<ref>kjharris. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/111506-kirkee-india-april-1919/?do=findComment&comment=1663057 Kirkee India April 1919] ''Great War Forum'' 2 November 2011, Retrieved 7 November 2019.</ref> An image of an tobacco tin was seen, with the inscription Prisoners of War Camp Kirkee India 1914-1918 A V Lawes 62515 8th Welch Pioneers<ref>Image of tobacco tin inscribed Prisoners of War Camp Kirkee India 1914-1918 A V Lawes 62515 8th Welch Pioneers. Retrieved 15 January 2015, but no longer available.</ref>, perhaps indicating the camp was in operation throughout the war.
*British Library India Office Records catalogue [http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?menuitem=0&fromTop=true&fromPreferences=false&fromEshelf=false&vid=IAMS_VU2 Search] result IOR/L/PJ/6/1504, File 4110 includes a brief mention of Turkish War Prisoners Camp, Nowgong, Central India.
*[http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?p=4657 Turkish POWs in India and Burma: First World War, Part 1] by Vedica Kant September 14, 2012; [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?p=4667 Part 2] September 17, 2012 amitavghosh.com
*[http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/12/world-war-indian-soldiers-prisoners.html "Indian Soldiers and POWs in the Middle East during World War I"] by Vedica Kant, Robert Upton, and Chris Gratien, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 86 (December 21, 2012) “ In this podcast, Vedica Kant talks about the experience of Indian POWs in the Ottoman Empire as well as that of Ottoman soldiers captured by the British army and brought to India and Burma, with additional commentary by Robert Upton regarding military recruitment in British India...” Webpage contains images of prisoners at Bellary and Thayetmyo. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131114003647/http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/12/world-war-indian-soldiers-prisoners.html archive.org] link)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140327035305/http://www.turkishreview.org/tr/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=223337 The history hidden in Haydarpaşa Cemetery] by Vedika Kant 01 August 2013. turkishreview.org, now an archived webpage. Includes a section on the Thayetmyo POW camp
*[https://armenianweekly.com/2019/08/06/turkish-and-armenian-prisoners-of-war-held-in-india-and-burma-during-wwi/ "Turkish and Armenian Prisoners of War Held in India and Burma During WWI"] by Harut Sassounian August 6, 2019 ''The Armenian Weekly''.
*[http://nek.istanbul.edu.tr:4444/ekos/TEZ/ET001765.pdf BİRİNCİ DÜNYA SAVAŞI’NDA İNGİLİZLERE ESİR DÜŞEN TÜRK ASKERLERİ] by Vedat TÜFEKÇİ Turkish language doctoral thesis, Istanbul University 2019. English title (possibly) "Turkish soldiers who were captured by the British in the first war". Appears to include chapters about camps in India and Burma, from page 141. Use [https://translate.google.com Google Translate]
==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.
Some 18,400 Italian prisoners of war (out of 50,000 requested by the Australian Government, to be employed as farm labourers) were transported from India to Australia from 1943. Some of the [Italian?] POWs in India were shipped to South Africa to help build the railway there.<ref>[http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/08/19/italian-pows-helped-grow-australia Italian POWs helped grow Australia] 26 August 2013 SBS News [Special Broadcasting Service] Television and Radio, Australia, quoting Gianfranco Cresciani, author of ''The Italians in Australia''</ref><ref>Francesco Barbera was an Italian POW captured in North Africa in 1941, who spent a few years In India. He was sent to Australia in 1943 where he spent time in POW camps in Liverpool, Cowra, Tumut and St Ives, now a suburb of Sydney. Article in the Sydney suburban newspaper ''North Shore Times'' 25 April 2014, page 11, (previously available online).</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160324112725/http://www.army.gov.au/~/media/Files/Our%20history/AAHU/Primary%20Materials/Post%20War%20and%20Korea%201946-1953/Documents/History%20Directorate%20of%20Prisoners%20of%20War%20and%20Internees%201939%20to%201951%20Part%20Two.pdf Part II: Administration of Enemy Prisoners of War] File from army.gov.au, now an archived webpage</ref>
*Group I – [[Bangalore]]: Camps 1 to 8 - Italian prisoners. There were Camps at Jakkur, Hebbal and Jalahalli.<ref>[https://aturquoisecloud.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/pensioners-paradise-or-pow-camp/ Pensioner’s Paradise or POW Camp ?] by Aliyeh Rizvi, July 7, 2011</ref>
*Group II – Bhopal: Camps 9 to 16 – Italian prisoners. Camp 16 was a hospital. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_Bairagarh Bhopal Bairagarh] (Wikipedia)
Catalogue reference [[BACSA]] Archive at the [[British Library]] India: Italian POW Camps Mss Eur F370/853
There are some catalogue references at the British Library in the series
IOR/L/PJ/8/1-76 Collection 101: Aliens (1931-1950), particularly from OR/L/PJ/8/30A "Coll 101/10A; Treatment of aliens, prisoners of war and civilian internees in India (Apr 1939-Aug 1943)" onwards, including "Nominal rolls and monthly returns"; "Reports on internment camps in India (excluding Japanese camps) (Oct 1942-Oct 1945)"; Internees; "Repatriation of civilians" etc.[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=1&dstmp=1583113933726&vid=IAMS_VU2&fromLogin=true Search for these records] in the Archives and Manuscripts catalogue.
===External links===
*[http://indianbanknote.blogspot.com.au/2010/05/india-prisoner-of-war-coupons.html Indian Banknote: India: Prisoner-of-War Coupons] Money used in the Prisoner-of-War Camps. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131128055915/http://indianbanknote.blogspot.com.au/2010/05/india-prisoner-of-war-coupons.html archive.org] link)
*[http://worldandmilitarynotes.com/?s=India+ World and Military Notes] contains examples of money used in the Prisoner-of-War Camps. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131128060238/http://worldandmilitarynotes.com/?s=India+ archive.org] link)
*Use [httphttps://translatewww.googledeepl.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=httptranslator DeepL Translator] or [https://prigionierotranslate.weeblygoogle.com/moneta.html&ei=wIJAT5-wAsyfiAepydXeBA&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CF4Q7gEwCTha&prev=/search%3Fq%3DRamgarh%2BPOW%26start%3D90%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1355%26bih%3D677%26prmd%3Dimvnsb au Google English translationTranslate] of the original Italian language [http://prigioniero.weebly.com/moneta.html Prigioniero a Yol India] about the money used in the camps. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131128061612/http://prigioniero.weebly.com/moneta.html archive.org] link)
====German prisoners of war====
====Italian prisoners of war====
*[https://international-review.icrc.org/sites/default/files/S1026881200024843a.pdf "Délégations du Comité international dans les cinq continents: Rapports télégraphiques sur des visites de camps de prisonniers de guerre et d'internés civils"] a section commencing page 347, part of [https://international-review.icrc.org/fr/revues/bulletin-no-317-revue-internationale-de-la-croix-rouge-et-bulletin-international-des ''Revue Internationale de la Croix-Rouge et Bulletin international des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge'' Volume 27, Issue 317, May 1945] French language. Scroll to digital page 6 (page 350 of original document) "Delegation aux Indes britannique" for details of a visit to India 26 February to 20 March [1945]. icrc.org. If required, copy and paste the text in [https://www.deepl.com/translator DeepL Translator] or [https://translate.google.com.au Google Translate]
:ICRC photographs: [https://avarchives.icrc.org/Picture/21720 Bangalore. Group I. Italian prisoners of war camp. ICRC delegate with a group of detainees 3/44]; [https://avarchives.icrc.org/Picture/21747 Italian prisoners of war camp. ICRC delegate with italian detainees 10/44]; [https://avarchives.icrc.org/Picture/21744 Italian prisoners of war camp. Delegate visiting the cemetery 10/44]; [https://avarchives.icrc.org/Picture/21736 Group IV. Italian prisoners of war camp], ICRC's delegates with italian doctors in front of the patient's barrack. WW2.
*[https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2013/10/italian-prisoners-of-war-and-internees-in-india.html "Italian Prisoners of War and Internees in India"] blogs.bl.uk. Records relating to Italian Prisoners of War and Internees WW2 at the British Library. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20190913124308/https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2013/10/italian-prisoners-of-war-and-internees-in-india.html archive.org] link)
*[http://www.tribuneindia.com/1998/98oct17/saturday/head4.htm#1 "Yol: Once a haven for prisoners of war"] (Scroll down) by Rajendra Rajan Saturday, October 17, 1998 ''The Tribune'' (tribuneindia.com) ([https://web.archive.org/web/20090514014301/http://www.tribuneindia.com/1998/98oct17/saturday/head4.htm#2 archive.org] link)*"The story of For the following links use a Translator. '''If you use Google Chrome, click on the ten thousand archived Italian soldiers prisoners in India" [https://translatelink, then use the translation link within Google Chrome'''.google.com.au/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20131110234041%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.loccidentale.it%2Farticolo%2Fla%2Bstoria%2Bdei%2Bdiecimila%2Bsoldati%2Bitaliani%2Bprigionieri%2Bin%2Bindia%2B%25281a%2Bparte%2529.0085440 Computer produced Google Alternatively copy and paste using English translation Part 1], [https://translatewww.googledeepl.com.au/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20131110232017%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.loccidentale.it%2Farticolo%2Fa.0085800 Part 2translator DeepL Translator], or [https://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=&sl=it&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2FwebGoogle Translate].archive.org%2Fweb%2F20100215153530%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.loccidentale.it%2Farticolo%2Fla%2Bstoria%2Bdei%2Bdiecimila%2Bsoldati%2Bitaliani%2Bprigionieri%2Bin%2Bindia%2B%25283a%2Bparte%2529%2B.0086241 *"The story of the ten thousand Italian soldiers prisoners in India" Google Translate English title Part 3] of original Italian version: "La storia dei diecimila soldati italiani prigionieri in India" [https://web.archive.org/web/20131110234041/http://www.loccidentale.it/articolo/la+storia+dei+diecimila+soldati+italiani+prigionieri+in+india+%281a+parte%29.0085440 (1a parte)], [https://web.archive.org/web/20131110232017/http://www.loccidentale.it/articolo/a.0085800 (2a parte)], [https://web.archive.org/web/20100215153530/http://www.loccidentale.it/articolo/la+storia+dei+diecimila+soldati+italiani+prigionieri+in+india+%283a+parte%29+.0086241 (3a parte)] loccidentale.it, now archived webpages *[https://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=&sl=it&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20160322021448%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.loccidentale.it%2Fnode%2F85514 "Updated list of Italian prisoners in Yol (India)": Computer produced Google Translate English translation] title of original Italian version [https://web.archive.org/web/20160322021448/http://www.loccidentale.it/node/85514 "Elenco aggiornato dei prigionieri italiani a Yol (India)"] loccidentale.it, now archived. *[https://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=&sl=it&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20120415011104%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Ferewhon.ticonuno.it%2Friv%2Fstoria%2Fyol%2Fprigionia.htm "10,000 in Himalayas: a story of war" Computer produced Google Translate English translation] title of original Italian version [https://web.archive.org/web/20120415011104/http://erewhon.ticonuno.it/riv/storia/yol/prigionia.htm "10.000 in Himalaya: una storia di Guerra"] erewhon.ticonuno.it, now archived. Mentions the book ''10.000 in Himalaya 1941-1947 Tesori, Orsi, Idee, Fughe - Treasures, Bears, Ideas, Escapes'' by Lido Saltamartini, published 1997 by Humana of Ancona. Parallel Italian and English text and illustration captions, with many images. Available at the Imperial War Museums, reference IWM LBY 05 / 527. The webpage includes a link to**Computer produced Google English translation of [http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20050113091318%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.chiamamicitta.com%2FWelcome%2Fser%2Fn240%2Fcardelli.htm&act=url an Interview with Toto Fabbri, about his time at Yol 1942-1946] from the website chiamamicitta.com, the online magazine of the city of Rimini. Original Italian version [https://web.archive.org/web/20050126094519/http://www.chiamamicitta.com/Welcome/ser/n240/cardelli.htm "Quattro anni a due passi dal Tibet"] (now archived)*[http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://digilander.libero.it/frontedeserto/prigionieri/prigionieriindia.htm&ei=O20_T9WoFeuQiQel4ty8BA&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDIQ7gEwAjgK&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dla%2Bstoria%2Bdei%2Bdiecimila%2Bsoldati%2Bitaliani%2Bprigionieri%2Bin%2Bindia%2B3a%2Bparte%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1355%26bih%3D677%26prmd%3Dimvns "Prisoners in India" Computer produced Google Translate English translation] title of original Italian version [http://digilander.libero.it/frontedeserto/prigionieri/prigionieriindia.htm "Prigionieri in India"] digilander.libero.it ([https://web.archive.org/web/20100705133303/http://digilander.libero.it/frontedeserto/prigionieri/prigionieriindia.htm archive.org] link)
*[http://faroutliers.blogspot.com.au/2006/04/italian-pows-in-india-1944.html Italian POWs in India, 1944] faroutliers.blogspot. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131128075037/http://faroutliers.blogspot.com.au/2006/04/italian-pows-in-india-1944.html archive.org] link)
*[http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/aviators/balsamo.htm Aviators from WWII Generale di Brigata Aerea Alfredo Balsamo] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20130423130542/http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/aviators/balsamo.htm archive.org] link). Contains a few photographs of Italian prisoners at Yol camp
*[http://cofrancesco.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=64&Itemid=86&lang=en "Umberto's War: From the diary of Umberto Cofrancesco"] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131128075631/http://cofrancesco.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=64&Itemid=86&lang=en archive.org] link): From capture in Libya to the prisoner of war camps at Ramgarh and Bairagarh [http://cofrancesco.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=64&Itemid=86&limit=1&limitstart=5&lang=en page 6]. [http://cofrancesco.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=64&Itemid=86&limit=1&limitstart=6&lang=en page 7], [http://cofrancesco.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=64&Itemid=86&limit=1&limitstart=7&lang=en page 8] cofrancesco.net (archive.org links [https://web.archive.org/web/20131128075738/http://cofrancesco.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=64&Itemid=86&limit=1&limitstart=5 1], [https://web.archive.org/web/20131128075847/http://cofrancesco.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=64&Itemid=86&limit=1&limitstart=6 2] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20131128075937/http://cofrancesco.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=64&Itemid=86&limit=1&limitstart=7 3]). He was subsequently transferred to Australia.
* "Memories of an Italian Naval Signalman" bbc.co.uk
**[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/39/a5815839.shtml Part Four - From POW Camp at Geneiffa, Egypt to a POW Camp at Poona, India]
====Japanese internees====
*[http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2016/08/a-forgotten-story-from-the-second-world-war.html "A forgotten story from the Second World War"] by Hedley Sutton. Untold lives blog, British Library. Japanese internees in the Internment Camp, Deoli (Ajmer). The majority were interned during December 1941 in Singapore and Malaya, although a few were picked up in Burma and in India itself. There is a reference to British Library records IOR/L/PJ/8/405.
*[https://avarchives.icrc.org/Picture/22003 Photograph: Bikaner. Camp n° 29 de prisonniers de guerre japonais. 11/44] Bikaner. Japanese Prisoner of War Camp No.29. icrc.org.
==Records==
===British Library===
