Prisoners Of War 1939-1945 - British Navy & Air Force Officers
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Information about Prisoners Of War 1939-1945 - British Navy & Air Force Officers
These records contain 19,203 records of British officers taken as prisoners of war. For each prisoner, these records include some or all of:
- name
- rank
- regiment
- army number
- camp number
- prisoner of war number
- camp type
- final camp location
- Other notes
Prisoners of war found themselves incarcerated in a variety of camps:
- Transit camp (Dulag or Durchgangslager) – these camps were a collection point for POWs before they were reassigned
- Transit camp of the Luftwaffe (Dulag Luft or Durchgangslager der Luftwaffe) – transit camps for Airforce POWs
- Base camp (Stalag or Stammlager) – enlisted personnel POW camps Officer camp (Oflag or Offizier-Lager) – the officers' POW camps
- Luftwaffe base camp (Stalag Luft or Luftwaffe-Stammlager) – POW camps for Allied aircrews administered by the German Air Force
- Marine camp (Marlag or Marine-Lager) – POW camps for Navy personnel Marine internment camp (Milag or Marine-Internierten-Lager) – internment camps for merchant seamen
- Internment camp (Ilag/Jlag or Internierungslager) – internment camps for civilians