Prisoners of war
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Sub-Series
Badge and papers relating to Sidney Baddeley on his liberation from Fukuoka prisoner-of-war camp, Japan, 1945 - 2024
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/15/22
Content Description
Comprises: badge presented to Sidney Baddeley by United States Air Force 5th Air Force on the liberation of Fukuoka prisoner-of-war camp in 1945; an account of the capture of Baddeley and his assistant, F.W. Chamberlin, in 1942; Baddeley family history papers; related papers.
Dates:
1945 - 2024
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
Fonds
Charles Bernard Denston: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10248
Scope and Contents
Autobiography, short stories, poems, personal recollections of working at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Duckworth Laboratory of Physical Anthropology in Cambridge, press cuttings and printed material on the experiences of former prisoners of war held by the Japanese.
Dates:
1938-2012
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Series
Correspondence and papers covering the period when Munby was held as a German prisoner of war, 1940-1945
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8229
Scope and Contents
The camps which Munby was imprisoned were Laufen (1940-1941), Warburg (1941-1942) and Eichstätt, (1942-1945), following his capture in Calais in May 1940 while serving as an officer in the Territorial Army.
Dates:
1940-1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Scrapbook, 1918-03 - 1918-12
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3/8
Scope and Contents
Unlike other scrapbooks in the series, this volume opens with a series of photographs showing warfare on the front lines. These photographs capture prisoners, refugees, soldiers, tanks, and ammunition mules in various locations across France, including Ham, Arras, Peronne, Roye, Aveluy, Bapume, Mailly-Maillet, Hénencourt, Bouzincourt, Albert and Doullens. Like other scrapbooks in the series, Eleanor goes on to combine reflections on her own experiences of the war with military battles which...
Dates:
1918-03 - 1918-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
'The Whistle': manuscript periodical produced in Changi Prisoner-of-War Camp
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 396
Scope and Contents
Subtitled, 'Leisure hour literature of D workshop'. Created by prisoners-of-war in Changi Gaol's D workshop, edited by Adrian John Clark, a British subject and, prior to his internment, legal adviser to the Federated Malay States government (died March 1944 at Changi) and secretly printed and bound in the Gaol Printing Shop. After the war, this copy of the periodical, thought to be the only copy in existence, was presented to Clark's widow, Marguerite. Approximately 34 pages, with hand-drawn...
Dates:
1942
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Various correspondence, 1945-02 - 1945-12
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 3/55
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Mary, the Princess Royal [also Lady Harewood] enclosing a letter from her son, Lord Lascelles [later 7th Lord Harewood, see also CSCT 3/45], from his prisoner-of-war camp in Italy (including a mention of his fellow-prisoner, Clementine's nephew, Giles Romilly) and on her joy at his escape and safe return (2); Jacques Balsan; [William] Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, thanking Clementine for her Christmas card and looking ahead to the end of the war, April...
Dates:
1945-02 - 1945-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.