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Prisoners of the Turks (First World War)

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*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://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/179.html Report on hospitals conditions for Prisoners of War in Nazareth and Damascus] The National Archives, FO 383/530. Report of Miss Edith Johncock, Matron of the British Hospital Nazareth, regarding the treatment of Prisoners of War (dated 1919). She had been Matron of the British Hospital in Nazareth from 1905, and became a prisoner of the Turks for four years, 3 years in Nazareth, and almost a year in Damascus. scarletfinders.co.uk
*[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.
*''Turkish Days and Ways'' by James Brown MD 1940. The author was a Scot who had lived in Australia most of his life who qualified as a doctor in Edinburgh during WW1 and became a Lieutenant RAMC. He was in a Field Ambulance, serving with a Brigade of Yeomanry at the time of capture at Katia near Romani, twenty three miles from the Suez Canal, c April 1916. He was a POW at Afyon Karahisar. [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2232939 Catalogue details], [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2819290002 digital file] nla.gov.au.
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