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Prisoners of the Turks (First World War)

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:[http://reveille.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/reveille?a=d&d=RV193409.1.12&srpos=1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------ Part 7, page 10], [http://reveille.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/reveille?a=d&d=RV193410.1.12&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------# Part 8, page 10] [http://reveille.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/reveille?a=d&d=RV193411.1.12&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------ Part 9 page 10]. reveille.dlconsulting.com
*Sample chapters from [http://www.saradistribution.com/otherranksofkut.htm ''Other Ranks of Kut''] by P. W. Long, M.M. Flight Sergeant R.A.F, 1938. Transcription of the Preface, Author’s Note, Chapter One and Chapter Six only, with details of the titles of the remaining chapters. saradistribution.com. The author was at the time Driver Percy Walter Long, 67528, 63rd Battery, R.F.A.<ref>[http://www.rushdenheritage.co.uk/war/longDriverPW.html Driver P. W. Long] 63rd Battery, R.F.A. rushdenheritage.co.uk. [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31759/supplement/1230 The London Gazette Supplement] 27/30 January 1920, page 1230</ref> Long’s account starts on 30th April 1916, the day after the surrender of Kut. From the preface by Sir Arnold Wilson, M.P. “Of 2,592 British rank and file taken prisoner at Kut, 70 per cent died in captivity”. Also available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/other-ranks-of-kut/ ''Other Ranks Of Kut''] by P. W. Long. Naval & Military Press.</ref> which in turn is available to read online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ807HO4jJ8lLh7Wlag ''Other Ranks of Kut''], (located in World War2/Military books/Iraq).
*[https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7733856 ''First and Second Interim Reports from the Committee of Enquiry into Breaches of the Laws of War, with Appendices'' 3 June 1919] CAB 24/85/6 Records of the Cabinet Office, The National Archives. Link to a free download. Includes pages on Turkey/Ottoman Empire, including the march from Kut, (at page 194), Damascus Hospital (page 234). <ref> PRC. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/276732-ssgt-jem-brunskill-ramc-was-he-a-turkish-pow/?do=findComment&comment=2824064 S/Sgt J.E.M Brunskill RAMC - was he a Turkish POW ?] ''Great War Forum ''23 November 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2019.</ref>
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015014437605?urlappend=%3Bseq=25 ''Adventures in the Near East, 1918-1922''], by A. Rawlinson 1924 Hathi Trust Digital Library. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015014437605?urlappend=%3Bseq=348 Pages 272-333] describe the author's imprisonment, when on 18 March 1920, he, and four British soldiers he commanded, were arrested by Turkish Nationalist Troops and confined for 20 months, until exchanged for Turkish prisoners 31 October 1921.
*[http://www.mq.edu.au/about_us/faculties_and_departments/faculty_of_arts/mhpir/research/research_by_staff/gallipoli_centenary_research_project/project_outcomes/translated_turkish_works_on_gallipoli/#crescent Sample of Red Crescent Documents] relating to POWs from “Translated Turkish Works on Gallipoli”, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
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