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*[http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-26/gallipoli-anzac-offered-job-by-turkish-captors-after-wwi/6349574 "Homesick Anzac POW offered full-time job by Turkish captors after WWI"] by Mazoe Ford. 25 April 2015. abc.net.au. Australian soldier George Kerr, ((AIF) 14th Battalion), wounded and captured at Gallipoli, became the paymaster at Belemedik POW camp.
*[http://empirecall.pbworks.com/w/page/61592428/McPherson-J-C-Pte-2309 John Charles McPherson 2309 AIF 3rd Bn], 11th Coy., Imperial Camel Corps. Contains a newspaper report of his time as a POW, from capture near Beersheba, in 1917, to working on railway construction in the Taurus Mountains.
*National Archives of Australia contains a [httphttps://wwwrecordsearch.naa.gov.au National Archives of Australia] contains a /SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8013117 digitized service record for Chapman Mathers, Service Number-919], a POW who died and was buried in the Armenian Cemetery at Angora. This file contains some general information, and includes a copy of what appears to be a Turkish death certificate.<ref>Canberra et al. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/230228-ankara-municipal-cemetery-baghdad-north-gate/?do=findComment&comment=2352583 Ankara Municipal cemetery / Baghdad North gate] ''Great War Forum'' 13 January 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2018.</ref>
*[http://www.ramc-ww1.com/profile.php?cPath=274_443_157&profile_id=11658&osCsid=29 RAMC profile of: Valentine Michael Flood [Service No: 46780<nowiki>]</nowiki>] He was moved in early 1916 to the camp at Bilemedik-Pouzantri where he'd have been put to work on the Berlin - Baghdad railway. He appears to have died in the POW Hospital at Angora (Ankara) and was buried in the hospital cemetery.
*[http://garriehutchinson.com/2013/01/17/new-zealands-gallipoli-prisoners-of-war/ New Zealand’s Gallipoli Prisoners of War]. Scroll down for an account by Private William Robert Surgenor (10/724 Wellington Infantry Battalion) who was wounded and captured on Chunuk Bair on 8 August 1915 and was in various prisoner of war camps in Turkey. His account appears as an Appendix in the book ''Gallipoli: The New Zealand Story'' by Chris Pugsley.The original account is held at Archives, New Zealand (R24428210). January 17, 2013. garriehutchinson.com
