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: 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.
*Ancestry (pay website) contains the database "UK, British Officer Prisoners of War, 1914-1918"<ref>[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=4722 UK, British Officer Prisoners of War, 1914-1918] Ancestry</ref> (located in category Military) consisting of data transcribed from the 1919 publication ''List of British Officers Taken Prisoner in the Various Theatres of War Aug 1914 to Nov 1918'' <ref>[http://www.naval-military-press.com/list-of-british-officers-taken_prisoner-in-the-various-theatres-of-war-aug-1914-to-nov-1918..html ''List of British Officers Taken Prisoner in the Various Theatres of War Aug 1914 to Nov 1918''] Reprint edition, Naval & Military Press</ref>, compiled from records kept by Messrs Cox & Co.'s Enquiry Office.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170624075844/http://www.cwgc.org/about-us/what-we-do/archive.aspx Commonwealth War Graves Commission Archive] , (archived webpage) located in the Head Office in Maidenhead, England. The Catalogue Records relating to Turkey are available in this [https://web.archive.org/web/20170528152821/http://www.cwgc.org/about-us/what-we-do/archive/archive-catalogue.aspx link] (archived page) then select Archive Catalogue Part 1 Sections 07-08, then scroll down. There is an online [http://archive.cwgc.org CWGC Archive catalogue Search] (which includes some digitised items, but not currently (2017/12) any relating to Turkey). The Archive includes a [http://archive.cwgc.org/TreeBrowse.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&field=RefNo&key=CWGC%2fLIB Library].
*[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.
*[http://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/prisoners_of_war "Prisoners of War"] by Heather Jones. encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net. "Section 6: Mistreatment" contains information about prisoners in Turkey.
