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  Foreign Office: Prisoners of War and Aliens Department: General Correspondence from...

  This series contains records of the Prisoners of War and Aliens Department, and is one of the series of Foreign Office records arising from, and employing, the FO central registry system for correspondence for the period from 1906. The records in FO …

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1915-1919

  Reference

  FO 383

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  Series

  Foreign Office: Permanent Under-Secretary's Department: Registered and Unregistered...

  This series consists of a collection of registered and unregistered papers originating in the Office of the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, (PUS) of the Foreign Office and the Permanent Under-Secretary's Department, (PUSD) relating to liaison wit…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1873-1985

  Reference

  FO 1093

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  Series

  Foreign Office: Wilton Park: Records

  This series contains student record cards of prisoners of war who attended the Wilton Park centre prior to repatriation to Germany (and occasionally Austria), showing details of previous camps attended, peacetime occupation, wartime service and so on…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1944-1951

  Reference

  FO 1120

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  Series

  Personal papers of Major Christopher Ronald Spear, Military Attaché to the British...

  This series contains records created during Major Christopher Ronald Spears? detention and subsequent release while work as Military Attaché to the British Embassy in China. The records contains correspondence exchanged between Spears and the British…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1939

  Reference

  FO 1121

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  Series

  War Office: International Red Cross and Protecting Powers (Geneva): Reports concerning...

  This series comprises a collection of reports by the International Red Cross and Protecting Powers (Geneva) and deals with conditions and events in various Prisoner of War Camps in Europe and the Far East.

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1941-1947

  Reference

  WO 224

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  Series

  War Office: Directorate of Military Operations and Intelligence, and Directorate...

  The series consists of records of the Directorate of Military Intelligence as established in 1939, together with some inherited from the former Directorate of Military Operations and Intelligence.Additional sections were formed during the course of t…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1917-1990

  Reference

  WO 208

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  Series

  War Office: German Record cards of British and Commonwealth Prisoners of War and...

  This series comprises some pre-printed cards, containing personal details of some 200,000 individuals held by German Authorities during the Second World War, most relate to prisoners of war though there are several hundred relating to civilians. The …

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1939-1945

  Reference

  WO 416

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  Series

  Registry of Shipping and Seamen: War of 1939-1945; Merchant Seamen Prisoner of War...

  The pouches record the circumstances of capture and the eventual fate of merchant seamen captured during the war of 1939-1945. They were originally stored in card index drawers.BT 373/1 - BT 373/359are indexed by ship name which was captured or lost …

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1923-1952

  Reference

  BT 373

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  Records of the Colonial Office, Commonwealth and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices,...

  Records of the Colonial Office, Commonwealth and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices, Empire Marketing Board, and related bodies relating to the administration of Britain's colonies.Comprises records of: Board of Trade responsibilities for colonial affa…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1574-1990

  Reference

  CO

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  Series

  Foreign Office: Consular (War) Department, later Prisoners of War Department: Registered...

  This series contains registered files of the Consular (War) Department, later the Prisoners of War Department. Comprises reports from various sources on prisoners of war and internment camps, etc, in enemy and enemy occupied countries and on the trea…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1939-1948

  Reference

  FO 916

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  Series

  War Cabinet and Cabinet: Home Defence (Security) Executive: Records

  This series consists of files of the Home Defence (Security) Executive and Security Executive's Secretary on various subjects including National Registration, control of information, control of prisoners of war, security control at seaports and airpo…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1940-1946

  Reference

  CAB 114

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  Series

  Ministry of Labour and successors: Employment Policy, Registered Files (EM series...

  This series contains registered files concerning matters of general employment policy. The series also includes a complete set of ministry forms plus records of, and files relating to, various ministerial committees and other bodies concerned with em…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1907-2001

  Reference

  LAB 8

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  Series

  Government Code and Cypher School: Diplomatic Section and Intelligence Exchange Section:...

  This series contains a series of reports issued by the Government Code and Cypher School of selected decrypted foreign diplomatic telegrams compiled for their interest to military commanders, known as the STARK reports. The reports in this series wer…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1944-1945

  Reference

  HW 39

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  Series

  War Office: Department of the Secretary, C5 Statistics Branch: Statistical Abstracts

  This series consists of a bound set of abstracts produced by the War Office's C5 Statistics Branch.In addition to material relating to personnel, these monthly statistical abstracts include information on various aspects of the First World War. In pa…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1916-1920

  Reference

  WO 394

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  Series

  War Office: Judge Advocate General's Office, British Army of the Rhine War Crimes...

  This series contains the records of the War Crimes Section of the Judge Advocate General's Branch of Headquarters 21st Army Group, set up in 1945 to investigate alleged war crimes in North West Europe.Following its creation, the War Crimes Group (Nor…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1943-1986

  Reference

  WO 309

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  Series

  Navy Board: Head Money Vouchers and Papers

  Correspondence, depositions, etc. relative to claims for head money or bounties for the capture of prisoners of war, with the Treasury warrants for the payment of the same.

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1710-1833

  Reference

  ADM 43

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  Series

  Auxiliary Territorial Service (Palestine) and other ranks service records

  This series consists predominantly of service records of women (not officers) who served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) as part of the British Army during the Second World War. Many of these women were born in Central Europe and, after ha…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  [1939-63]

  Reference

  WO 447

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  Series

  Prisoners of War Information Bureau: Correspondence and Papers, Second World War

  This series consists of correspondence and papers of the British Prisoners of War Information Bureau (PWIB) of the Second World War.The files concern the PWIB's responsibilities for administering the provision of information to enemy powers (through …

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1939-1946

  Reference

  WO 307

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  Series

  War Office: Japanese Index Cards of Allied Prisoners of War and Internees, Second...

  This series comprises some 50,000 pre-printed cards of uncertain provenance. They appear to have been compiled by a central Japanese authority which has not been identified. There has been some degree of Allied assistance in compiling, maintaining et…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1942-1945

  Reference

  WO 345

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  Series

  War Office: Allied Prisoners of War Hospitals, Registers and Papers, Second World...

  Most of the records in this series consist of admission and discharge registers, alphabetical sick registers and death registers, kept by prisoners of war. These are divided into three subseries: Nong Pladock Camp and its Ubon or Oubone satellite, in…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1942-1947

  Reference

  WO 347