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Prisoners of the Turks (First World War)

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*[http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/report-on-treatment-of-british-prisoners-of-war-in-turkey ''Miscellaneous No. 24 (1918): Report on the Treatment of British Prisoners of War in Turkey'']. Presented to Parliament November 1918. HMSO 1918 IOR/L/MIL/7/18737 British Library. [http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/landau/content/titleinfo/188396 Alternative version: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt]
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206358/page/n293 Pages 200-205] ''History of the 1st Battalion 6th Rajputana Rifles (Wellesley’s)'' by Lieut Colonel F H James 1938. Archive.org. The experience of part of the regiment (346 in total, officers, ORs and followers) after the fall of Kut.
*For an Indian Army regimental history, where part of the regiment was taken prisoner at Kut, see [[24th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|24th Punjabis]], on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/175378 ''Adventures in Turkey and Russia''] by E H Keeling, London 1924. Pdf download, Digital Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175378 Archive.org version]. The author was captured at Kut, and the initial chapter details the the very poor medical condition of many of those captured. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Keeling Edward Keeling] Wikipedia. He was in the Indian Army Reserve of Officers.
:[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi205edinuoft#page/682/mode/2up "How British Prisoners Left Turkey"] by Lieutenant-Colonel E H Keeling page 682 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'' January-June 1919, Volume 205 Archive.org. The practical difficulties associated with the repatriation of prisoners of war.
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