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**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>
*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''.
==Second World War==
