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:'''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 online records:
**[http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/List/10828903655166/1873699/50410/ R 50410-R 50508] List of Prisoners from Croissant Rouge Ottoman. Includes Indian Army soldiers.**[http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/List/10828903655166/1873699/50509/ 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/41746593655166/1873699/51794/ 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.: 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.
