prisonerofwar

101 photos and 6 illustrations tagged prisonerofwar, from 17 members of Flickr Commons.

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2021

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Gambling with cigarettes, Stalag 383 prisoner-of-war camp, Donald Skelton, 1941-43 from State Library of New South Wales uploaded February 2026
09_03747 Duich Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded September 2022
09_03455 Duich Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded August 2022
Peter Marshall’s Journey: The Story of the Last Living American POW on Guam 210326-N-N1526-003 from Navy Medicine uploaded March 2021
Permann RAF vs LW Album Image43 082 from SDASM Archives uploaded September 2019
[John W. January, veteran of Co. B, 14th Illinois Cavalry Regiment, with prosthetic legs] (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded November 2018
Carl Gwartney Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded November 2018
bob hoover collection image from SDASM Archives uploaded November 2018
British Library digitised image from page 77 of "Recollections of a Private. A story of the army of the Potomac ... Illustrated" from British Library uploaded June 2018
george dong collection image from SDASM Archives uploaded May 2018
Morgan Lane of Denbigh - 2013 from Cloyne and District Historical Society uploaded March 2018
British Library digitised image from page 116 of "History of the Town of Plymouth, Connecticut, with an account of the centennial celebration, May 14 and 15, 1895. Also a sketch of Plymouth, Ohio, settled by local families [With a preface by L. S. Griggs, from British Library uploaded October 2017
British Library digitised image from page 188 of "Prisoners of War and Military Prisons. Personal narratives ... With a general account of Prison Life and Prisons in the South during the War of the Rebellion, ... by A. B. Isham ... H. M. Davidson ... and from British Library uploaded June 2017
German prisoners under guard of French soldiers. These prisoners are treated humanely by the Allies from The Library of Virginia uploaded April 2017
German prisoners (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded October 2016

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English boys, 14 1/2 & 16 years at Doeberitz (in uniforms) (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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Retired at last said:
What were English boys doing at a German army base?
Art Siegel said:
It was also a prison camp.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prisoner-of-war_camps_in_Ge...
aware health said:
I think the British Navy was still using cabin boys in WWI. Those look like army uniforms, so maybe there was an equivalent station in the army.

histclo.com/essay/war/ww1/peo/cons/eng/w1e-boyv.html

09_03455 Duich Collection Image

from SDASM Archives

TVL1970 said:
"PW" painted on the roofs over a Prisoner of War (POW) camp. This may be a mission to supply allied prisoners of war from the air just after the conclusion of World War II in the Pacific.

German prisoners (LOC)