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  • Catalogue level
    Series

    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
  • Catalogue level
    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
  • Catalogue level
    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
  • Catalogue level
    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
  • Catalogue level
    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
  • Catalogue level
    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
  • Catalogue level
    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
  • Catalogue level
    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
  • Catalogue level
    Department

    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
  • Catalogue level
    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
  • Catalogue level
    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
  • Catalogue level
    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
  • Catalogue level
    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
  • Catalogue level
    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
  • Catalogue level
    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
  • Catalogue level
    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
  • Catalogue level
    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
  • Catalogue level
    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
  • Catalogue level
    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
  • Catalogue level
    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

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