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*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 ..."
*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====
*[http://archive.org/stream/recollectionsab00bringoog#page/n10/mode/2up ''Recollections of a Boer Prisoner-Of-War at Ceylon''] by J N Brink, "late adjudant of General Crowther" 1904 Archive.org
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 [http://newslocal.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/showlink.aspx?bookmarkid=HJLFMSXUDVY5&preview=magnifier&linkid=72862f0e-f12b-4af6-966c-fce95321c288&pdaffid=flTgD0N%2bsncNlRju4zoiMw%3d%3d ''North Shore Times'' 25 April 2014, page 11]</ref><ref>[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</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)
