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*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> Great War Forum [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=112227&p=2022171 post] by 'KateH' dated 23 January 2014, part of a thread 'Concentration Camp Deolali'</ref>
*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 [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=53333 18th Rifle Brigade] Great War Forum 30 May 2006 et al. Retrieved 8 December 2014</ref>
*The POW Camp at [[Belgaum]] is mentioned in the entry for 6 April 1918 from [http://web.archive.org/web/20040407134248/http://home.clara.net/nhpendall/fpdiary.htm The Diary of Frederick Pendall], a member of the Norfolk regiment who was in Belgaum from March 1917 to March 1918 (archived website)
*[http://www.stampcommunity.org/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=20627 Postcard to Germany from Ahmednagar POW camp 1919] stampcommunity.org. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131128053807/http://www.stampcommunity.org/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=20627 archive.org] link)
