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*[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)
====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://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)
*[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.
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