Prisoners Collection (page 8)

Eight-sleeper bunk in Stalag XXI D
Sketch showing life of British prisoners of war in a German camp during World War Two. The sketch was made in Stalag XXI D in Posen, Poland

Bolshevik prisoners, Lijma Station, Russian Civil War
Bolshevik prisoners standing by the railway track at Lijma Station, near Lake Onega, Medevja-Gora (Medvedja-gora, Medvezhya Gora, now known as Medvezhyegorsk, Republic of Karelia)

German soldiers captured, Monastir, WW1
French officers interrogating German soldiers captured during the Battle of Monastir (now Bitola), Macedonia, during the First World War

Austrian prisoners given soap by their Italian captors - World War One. Date: circa 1915

German Prisoners of War
1700 German prisoners at Meaulte, captured during the Battle of the Somme. 12th July 1916

German prisoners captured at Ancre, France, WW1
German prisoners of war captured by the 39th Division at St Pierre Divion during the Battle of the Ancre (13 November 1916), northern France, during the First World War. Date: November 1916

German prisoners captured at Broodseinde, WW1
German prisoners of war captured during the Battle of Broodseinde (4 October 1917), Flanders, during the First World War. They are a German Commander (centre), his adjutant and staff

Wounded German prisoners of war, WW1
Wounded German prisoners of war captured by the British on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Austrian officers captured by the Russians, WW1
Austrian officers captured by the Russians during the First World War. Date: 26 August 1915

Three German prisoners of war, WW1
Three German prisoners of war, two of them with bandaged heads and labels attached to their coats, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

British prisoners of war arriving at Hull from Germany, WW1
British prisoners of war arriving at Hull, being repatriated from Germany towards the end of the First World War. Date: circa 1918

Two prisoners of war captured by Canadians, WW1
Two young prisoners of war with tins hanging round their necks, captured by the Canadians during the First World War. Date: 23 April 1918

Portuguese prisoners handing over gas masks, WW1
Portuguese soldiers taken prisoner in the Battle of Armentieres (Battle of the Lys) handing over their gas masks at a collecting point, Flanders, First World War. Date: April 1918

Turkish prisoners, Mesopotamia, WW1
Turkish prisoners with their British captors, on their way to Baghdad, Mesopotamia (now Iraq), during the First World War. Date: circa 1915-1918

Attending to wounded German prisoner, WW1
An Allied soldier attending to a wounded German prisoner in a muddy field during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

German prisoners captured by Canadians at Vimy, WW1
Two German prisoners of war captured by the Canadians during the Battle of Vimy Ridge, northern France, during the First World War. Date: April 1917

Turkish Nationalist Prisoners - War of Independence
Turkish Nationalist Prisoners captured at Izmit by the British forces during the Turkish War of Independence. The three ringleaders stand together (they were subsequently shot) - June, 1920

German prisoners at Oise, France, WW1
German prisoners of war sitting in front of a brick wall on the Western Front at Oise, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Austrian prisoners on the Italian front, WW1
Austrian prisoners of war on the Italian front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

September Massacres
Stanislas-Marie Maillard heads a tribunal which decides which of the prisoners detained in the prisons shall be guillotined as enemies of the Revolution. Date: 2-3 September 1792

Bulgarian prisoners in Macedonia, captured during the repulse of Bulgarian attacks into the region during the Second Balkan War, which broke out on 16th June 1913

Ottoman Turkish Prisoners, Baghdad, Iraq - WWI Date: 1917

Turkish Prisoners in Montenegro Date: circa 1916

Group photo, Dr Berrys Serbian Mission
A group photograph of Austrian prisoners and their nurses at Dr James Berrys Serbian Mission, a Red Cross Unit in Serbia during the First World War

Captured Zouaves and Turkish soldiers - WWI
Captured Zouaves in a WWI German POW camp. Zouave was the title given to certain infantry regiments in the French Army, normally serving in French North Africa between 1831 and 1962

Austrian prisoner of war, WW1
An Austrian prisoner of war captured during the First World War. He has two medals pinned to his jacket. Date: 1914-1918

German prisoners of war, Casablanca, Morocco, WW1
German prisoners of war being served dinner at a French detention camp in Casablanca, Morocco, during the First World War. Date: 21 May 1916

Captured Serbian troops near Brus, Serbia, WW1
Captured Serbian troops near Brus, Serbia, on the eastern front during the First World War. Date: 1915

German prisoner captured at Messines, Flanders, WW1
A German prisoner of war captured during the Battle of Messines Ridge (June 1917), Flanders, during the First World War. Date: 1917

British prisoners from Kut returning to London, WW1
British prisoners captured after the Siege of Kut (1916), seen here on their return to London via Cannon Street Station. They are NCOs and other men, officers having returned a few days earlier

Captured Serbian troops, eastern front, WW1
Captured Serbian troops on the eastern front during the First World War. Date: 1915-1917

Captured Serbian troops, Mitovitza, Serbia, WW1
Captured Serbian troops at Mitovitza, Serbia, on the eastern front during the First World War. Date: 1915-1917

Portuguese prisoners at collecting station, WW1
Portuguese soldiers taken prisoner, seen here at a collecting station on the Western Front, First World War. Date: 1916-1918

German prisoners in Champagne, France, WW1
German prisoners of war in a field in the Champagne region of north eastern France, during the First World War. Date: 26 July 1918

German prisoners of war, Somme Offensive, WW1
German prisoners of war captured during the Somme Offensive in northern France, First World War. Date: July 1916

American troops with German prisoners, Belleau Wood, WW1
American troops with German prisoners near Belleau Wood, northern France, First World War. Date: circa 1918

Turkish troops surrendering to British near Kirkuk, WW1
Turkish troops surrendering to a British outpost near Kirkuk, Mesopotamia (now Iraq) during the First World War. Date: May 1918

German prisoners at Verdun, France, WW1
German prisoners of war walking along a road at Verdun, north eastern France, during the First World War. 1917

German prisoners of war on the march, WW1
German prisoners of war marching along a road on the Western Front, on their way to a detention centre after being captured, First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Russian soldiers captured at Lemberg, Galicia, WW1
Russian soldiers captured at Lemberg, Galicia (now Lviv, Ukraine) walking along a road on the eastern front during the First World War. Date: circa 1914-1915

German prisoners near Wanquetin, France, WW1
German prisoners of war captured during the Battle of Arras, northern France, during the First World War. Seen here held in the cage or detention centre. Date: April 1917

Sergeant Alvin C York, American soldier, WW1
Sergeant Alvin Cullum York (1887-1964), American soldier, one of the most decorated of the First World War. Seen here on the hill in the Argonne Forest, near Cornay, France

German prisoners captured at Poelkapelle, WW1
German prisoners of war captured during the Battle of Poelkapelle (9 October 1917), Flanders, during the First World War. Seen here in a prisoners camp near Ypres

German prisoners of war, Fricourt, WW1
German prisoners of war captured during the Battle of Bazentin Ridge in northern France, First World War. Seen here being marched into Fricourt. Date: 14 July 1916

Freemasonry and the Homeland
Two captive officers, discovered to be Masons, are treated with certain privileges not usually seen in war prisoners. 1890s

American wounded and German POWs, Argonne, France, WW1
Wounded American troops and German prisoners of war in Argonne, north eastern France, during the First World War. Date: 5 October 1918

Prisoners captured by Australian troops near Gaza, WW1
Prisoners captured by the Australian Light Horse during the enemy retreat on the Gaza-Beersheba Line, Palestine, during the First World War. Date: 1917

German prisoners at Dernancourt, France, WW1
German prisoners of war arriving at a detention centre at Dernancourt, northern France, during the First World War. Date: September 1916

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