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** Other records from FO 383 include FO 383/456 File 117571 (03/09/1918) Various lists: Nominal role of British Officers, Warrant Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, Men and Indian military personnel held at Afrion Kara Hissar, Kedos, Konia, and Magnesia in Turkey providing rank, name and unit/ship… 2. List of Assistant Surgeons of the Indian Medical Service: PoWs in Turkey. 3. List of Sub Assistant Surgeons of the Indian Medical Service; PoWs inTurkey…<ref>themonsstar [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=114664&p=1094884 POWs] ''Great War Forum'' 13 January 2009. Retrieved 1 August 2015.</ref>
:'''Note''': [[Findmypast|findmypast]] has a dataset of records "Prisoners Of War 1715-1945" and a similar Browse dataset (both located in Armed forces & conflict/Regimental & service records) which contain selected records from FO 383, including some for Indian Army soldiers, together with some other records from The National Archives. Includes at leat parts from FO 383/336, POWs in Turkey, 1917; FO 383/456, POWs in Turkey, 1918.
*International Committee of the Red Cross Historical Archives contains online records, searchable by name, the record series including:**[http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/List/3655166/699/50410/ R 50410-R 50508] List . Also from this link scroll forward to the beginning of the file, which advises "C G1 E01-3.03 R 14246-14426 and R 50353 –R 50508. PG britanniques en mains turques". The first series R 14246-14426 seem to be largely in respect of deaths, while the latter series are mainly Lists of Prisoners at Camps, from Croissant Rouge Ottoman. Includes Indian Army soldiers. Note: there appear to be some unrelated records included.
**[http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/List/3655166/699/50509/ R 50509-R 50840]. Further List of Prisoners from Croissant Rouge Ottoman. Includes some Lists of deaths, with causes of death. Includes Indian Army soldiers. Note: there appear to be some unrelated records included.
**[http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/List/3655166/699/51794/ R 51794, R 51795] is a two page list of British Officers repatriated Prisoners of War from Turkey, reported at Alexandria October 1918. This appears to be a British War Office document.
**There are also additional records available, which appear only able to be found by a name Search. As an example a [http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/List/3655166/699/13783/ partial alphabetical list of deaths, letter A] includes R 13783-4…13868-71-85-95-13896 Prisoner deaths at Mosul.: If these links are not permanent, from the ICRC Prisoners of the First World War [http://grandeguerre.icrc.org Home Page] select Examples of Index Cards/Cards of a British serviceman, and then enter the record number in the Search.
*[http://www.cwgc.org/about-us/what-we-do/archive.aspx Commonwealth War Graves Commission Archive] , located in the Head Office in Maidenhead, England. The Catalogue Records relating to Turkey are available in this [http://www.cwgc.org/about-us/what-we-do/archive/archive-catalogue.aspx link] then select Archive Catalogue Part 1 Sections 07-08, then scroll down.
*[http://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/prisoners_of_war_ottoman_empiremiddle_east "Prisoners of War (Ottoman Empire/Middle East)"] by Yücel Yanıkdağ . Scroll down to the section "Entente Prisoners of War in the Ottoman Empire" encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net. The mortality rate of the British and Dominion prisoners in Ottoman captivity was very high.
