|
Camp numbers -
Some camps have more than 1 number. James Mackay provided the following information about these cases:
"it
means there were two camps at almost the same location. Camp 20 and Camp 300 at
Wilton Park were still in use in 1958-9 when I trained there. I was accommodated
in Camp 20 with other probationary second lieutenants while the trainee
sergeant-instructors and the Brigade Squad were housed in Camp 300. The two
camps were only a quarter of a mile apart and all within the grounds of Wilton
Park. The permanent staff were housed in 'the White House' itself.
Camp 3 (Balhary) and Camp 63 (Balhary
Estate Camp) were about a mile apart. Camp 3 was actually located on a farm
called Rannaleroch. After the war it became a Displaced Persons camp under the
name of Leroch and even today is one of a dozen farm work camps in the UK
employing East Europeans (mainly Poles). Camp 63 was in a huge field in front of
Balhary House. All that remains of the Balhary Estate Camp is a massive
three-storey watch tower.
Camps 182 and 298 at Barony, Parkgate,
Dumfriesshire were on either side of the Parkgate Road. Camp 182 is now the
location of Barony Agricultural College while 298 is derelict and the remains of
several huts are still to be seen.
Camps 12 and 15 were in the grounds of
Donaldson's Hospital or School for the Deaf and I imagine a similar situation as
obtained at Wilton Park because the grounds are vast.
Similarly Camps 1013 and 1014 in the
Deer Park at Dalkeith would have existed side by side.
The converse is more puzzling. Camp 112
was originally Kingencleuch, but the number was later assigned to Doonfoot. As
far as I can ascertain there was only ever one camp there, originally 14, so I
am not sure what happened there. It is further complicated for Doonfoot also
accommodated HMS Scotia, a shore naval establishment just the other side of the
wire."
Another reason for another number being assigned was due to a
change in status of a camp - for example, Le Marchant Camp (23) became German PW Working Camp,
number 410.
* indicates date
range of philatelic covers seen. ?? indicates that I am unable to read the
address clearly and the spelling is in doubt.
I am also extremely grateful to Steve Dunderdale who has
greatly assisted in developing this list by supplying additional information
about Italian POW camps.
[2003 Prisoner of War Camps survey by English Heritage -
Ordnance Survey Grid Reference / current condition of the camp : 1 Complete; 2
Near complete; 3 Partial remains; 4 Removed; 5 Unresolved - details only given
for camps in England]
| 1 |
Grizedale Hall, Grizedale,
Cumberland - Base camp [SD 3365 9427 / 4, all huts demolished]
Ex stately home + about 30 huts, double perimeter fence with
watchtowers. Opened 1939 as POW camp for officers.
In 1942, 50 French officers who had surrendered at the invasion of
Madagascar were temporarily settled here. At the end of the war held many high ranking
officers including Generalfeldmarschall Rundstedt - nicknamed 'Hush
Hush Hotel'. Now demolished. Mentioned in 'The One That Got Away' and
'Thresholds of Peace'.
Translation of International
Red Cross Inspection Report, 1942;
other visits by International Red Cross - 16 November 1943; 30 June
1944;
Translation of International Red Cross
Inspection Report, 7 December 1945;
|
| 2 |
Toft Hall Camp, Knutsford,
Cheshire - Base camp [SJ 7538 7626 / 4]
Opened 1942, (Italian prisoners) closed 1948 (mainly German
prisoners). Capacity 1500. 78 huts in parkland - 20 huts in guards compound, 58 huts in
prisoners compound, double perimeter fence and guard towers. Very brief
mention in 'Thresholds of Peace'.
18 February 1947 - In the
the House of Commons, replying to a general question abut the camp, the
Secretary of State for War (Mr. Bellenger) answered; "There are 1,516
prisoners of war held at Toft Hall Camp, claiming 26 different
nationalities. Ninety-five per cent. of these prisoners of war are German,
or of German racial origin, with residential qualifications in the countries
to which they wish to return."
Mr. Stokes M.P. replied that; "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the
prisoners of war themselves complain that they belong to 38 different
nationalities, and that the majority of them were pressed into German
service against their will? Will [he] please hurry with the
examination of their individual cases?" HC Deb 18
February 1947 vol 433 c953 |
| 2 |
Woodhouselee Camp,
Milton
Bridge, Midlothian [listed, Scotland] (780?) |
| 2 |
Glen Mills, Wellyhole Street, Oldham,
Lancashire - Base camp [no grid reference given / 4] (cf168
and 176)
An old cotton mill, various buildings + huts. For a while it was a transfer
point and holding depot for German POW being sent to and returned from
Canada. Also held a large number of Russian volunteers who had been captured
fighting for the Germans in France. Capacity 5000
POWs. Mentioned in 'Prisoners of England' and 'Thresholds of
Peace'. |
| 3 |
Balhary Camp, Perthshire - [listed,
Scotland] (cf 63) |
| 4 |
Scraptoft, Thurnby,
Leicestershire - Base camp [SK 64 05 / 5] |
| 4 |
Gilling Camp, Hartforth
Grange, Hartforth Lane, Gilling West,
North Yorkshire - [NZ 1633 0693 / 4 hut platforms remain]
(cf 288)
Quote from ex POW - "A lovely peaceful spot, clean hut, showers, a shop and
a massive farm building containing the dining-hall as well as the rooms of
the English and the German staff (Lagerleiter)."
The wartime memories of Herbeit Heinemann. |
| 4 |
Windlestone Hall Camp, Rusheyford, County
Durham [NZ 26 28 / 5] Sub-camp for camp 93. There is a suggestion that women POWs
were held here, though official accounts say there were no women POWs in UK. |
| 5 |
Monrush Camp, Cookstown,
County Tyrone - Base camp [listed, N Ireland] |
| 5 |
[The Hayes] Swanwick Hayes, Swanwick,
Derbyshire - [this number not listed in 2003 report - see 13]
(cf 13, 58, 179, 297) Large country house with huts and tents for German
officers, double perimeter fence, guard towers . Camp opened early in the war. Mentioned in 'The One That Got Away'
and 'Thresholds of Peace'. |
| 6 |
Racecourse Camp, Doncaster,
Yorkshire - Base camp - [SE 595 031 / 5] (cf 296a)
Mentioned in 'Thresholds of
Peace'. |
| 6 |
Long Marston Camp,
Warwickshire - [SP 15 48 / 5] (cf 578, 580,
685)
Ordnance depot |
| 6 |
Glenbranter Camp, Argyll
[listed, Scotland] |
| 6a |
Ashton Court, Bower Ashton,
Somerset [ST 557 718 / 5] |
| 7 |
Winter Quarters Camp,
Ascot, Berkshire - Special camp [SU 905 679 / 2]
About 46 huts, 20 in guards compound, 26 in prisoners
compound, football pitch, enclosed by double fence. Mentioned in 'Thresholds of Peace'. |
| 7 |
South Brent Camp, South Brent, Devonshire
[not listed in 2003 report]
Information from Ashley Riding - "the camp was located at Marley Head near
South Brent, Devon. Marley Head is located about 2 miles outside the
village."
|
| 8 |
Mile House, Shrewsbury Road, Oswestry, Shropshire
- Base camp [SJ 3117 2825 / 5] |
| 8 |
Warth Mills, Bury, Lancashire - [SD
7965 094 / 3] (cf 9, 12a and 177) Ex cotton mill.
Mentioned in 'Thresholds of
Peace'. |
| 9 |
Warth Mills, Bury, Lancashire
- [see camp 8] (cf 8, 12a and 177) |
| 9 |
Kempton Park Racecourse,
Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey - Reception camp - [TQ 110
700 / 4] (cf 681)
Racecourse and buildings + 212 tents in
prisoners' compound, double perimeter fence, guard towers. Guards
compound had about 20 huts and 52 tents to east of Park Road. Also used as screening /
interrogation centre - tents and huts.
POWs arriving at Kempton >
Mentioned in 'Thresholds of Peace'. |
 |
|
| 9 |
Quorn Camp, Wood Lane, Quorn,
Leicestershire - Standard type [SK 561 161 / 4] (cf 183) |
| 10 |
Gosford Camp, Gosford Castle, Markethill, County Armagh
- Base camp [listed, N Ireland]
Camp in the grounds of the castle |
| 10 |
Cockfosters Camp, Barnet,
London [listed, but no details] The Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre
(CSDIC) was located here from early on in the war, after moving from the
Tower of London. CSDIC then moved to Wilton Park (Camp 20) in July 1942. |
| 10 |
Stamford Camp, (Markethill Camp), Empingham Rd, Stamford,
Lincolnshire - Standard camp - [TF 014 071 / 4] (cf106) |
| 11 |
Racecourse Camp, Knavesmire, York, Yorkshire
[SE 59 49 / 4] |
| 11 |
Island Farm Camp, Bridgend,
Glamorganshire - Special camp - [listed, Wales] (cf 198)
Originally Camp 198 - redesignated as Special Camp 11 after an escape during
1944. Many officers transferred to Carburton,
Camp 181.
German officers were held here from 6 January 1946, and
later other ranks. The camp held some very high ranking German officers
including Generalfeldmarschalls: Rundstedt, Manstein, Kleist
& Brauchitsch. The camp was closed in May 1948.
International Red Cross inspection - 1 June 1943; 11 August
1944 - 19 senior officers.
Very extensive history on -
http://www.islandfarm.fsnet.co.uk/
Mentioned
in 'Thresholds of Peace'.
*POW
postcard sent by Lt General Herbert Olbrich, July 1947. |
| 11 |
Gilford, Elmsfield, Craigavon, County Armagh - see
note under Camp 12 Elmfield below [listed, N Ireland] |
| 11a |
Trent Park Camp, Barnet,
Middlesex [TQ 290 973 / 2]
Large house, double wire perimeter, pillboxes and watch
towers. Used as Air Interrogation Centre. Mentioned in
'The One That Got Away'. |
| 11a |
Rayner's Lane,
Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex - [TQ 51 18 / 5] (cf 122) "Ministry of
Works temporary office buildings, erected in November 1942, were taken over
to house Italian prisoners of war in October 1944. When they finally moved
out (some time after July 1945), they were replaced by German P.O.W.s (122
German Prisoner of War Working Camp). The Germans moved to a camp on the
site of the later Bannister Sports Centre, off the Uxbridge Road, on March
15th 1947". Bob Thomson, Local History Librarian. 1700 Italian POWs at
the end of 1944 [Hansard 28 November 1945] . |
| 12 |
Elmfield Camp, Gilford, Portadown, County Armagh
[listed, N Ireland]
Message received from Glyn Davies about Camp 11 'Gilford' above, and this
entry - "You have 11 and 12 as the same camp at the
same address, although one uses the modern postal town Craigavon instead of
the older Portadown. There were two camps in the area however. One was at
Brownstown which was then on the edge of Portadown, whereas Gilford is some
five miles away. My father was a bluecap at the former."
I am not
sure which address corresponds to which entry. |
| 12 |
Donaldson's Hospital, West
Coates, Edinburgh, Midlothian - [listed, Scotland] (cf 15)
*POW Lettersheet 30 August 1942 in Italian to Italy -
Lettersheet 14
March 1943 in Italian to Italy |
| 12a |
Warth Mills, Bury, Lancashire - [see
8] (cf 8, 9 and 177) |
| 13 |
[The Hayes] Swanwick Hayes, Swanwick, Derbyshire -
[SK 4075 5234 / 4] (cf 5, 58, 179, 297) |
| 13 |
Shap Wells Hotel, Shap,
Cumberland - Base camp - [NY 579 096 / 2] (cf 15)
Owned by the Earl of Lonsdale, the
hotel was requisitioned and turned into a POW Camp in February 1941. It
housed up to 250
mainly senior Luftwaffe and German naval officers on the top two floors of the hotel, these often
waiting to be sent to Glasgow and then off to Canada.
The camp leader was at one point a German Prince (Fürst
von Urach) who was reportedly related to Queen Mary. It is recorded that the
hotel linen and crockery were used for the prisoners, hence its nickname
‘U-Boat Hotel’. There were up to 80 orderlies. Towards the end of the war
the POWs held here were all 'white' category prisoners. The camp was protected with two rings of barbed wire and
searchlights; guards lived in Nissen huts in the adjoining gardens. Two
Luftwaffe officers made an escape attempt in November, 1941 - later officers
giving their word of honour not to escape were allowed to go out and walk on
the fells. Closed 1947. Mentioned in
'Thresholds of Peace'.
Translation of IRC Report 18 March 1942
- many complaints about mail and parcels.
International Red Cross visit - 18 March 1942, 15 October
1942, 4 June 1943; 19 August 1943, 205 German officers; 6 October 1943, 205
German officers; 17 November 1943, 29 June 1944. |
| 14 |
Holywood, Jackson Road, Belfast - [listed,
N Ireland] (cf 172, 682) |
| 14 |
Doonfoot (Bun) Camp, nr Ayr, Ayrshire
- [listed, Scotland] (cf 112) |
| 15 |
Donaldson's School, West
Coates, Edinburgh, Midlothian
- [see 12] |
| 15 |
Shap Wells Hotel, Shap, Cumberland - Base
camp - [see 13] |
| 16 |
Prees Heath, Whitchurch,
Shropshire [SU 55 37 / 4] Capacity 2000. Closed 4 October 1941 - later RAF airfield for bomber
training. |
| 16 |
Flaxley Green Camp, Stilecop
Field, Rugeley, Staffordshire - Standard camp - [SK 034 158 / 4]
(cf175)
Large camp; six prisoners' compounds with huts and tents, guards' compound.
*POW Lettersheet 1946 to Germany |
| 16 |
Gosford Camp, Aberlady, nr Longniddry, East Lothian
- Base camp [listed, Scotland]
In the grounds of Gosford Castle. Mentioned in 'Thresholds
of Peace'.
*POW Postcard June 1946 in German to Germany / POW Lettersheet December 1947 in German to Germany |
| 17 |
Lodge Moor Camp,
Redmires
Road, Sheffield, Yorkshire [SK 2795 8598 / 3; footings and perimeter walls
remain]
Huts and tents, double wire fences, watch towers.
Mentioned in 'Thresholds of Peace' and very brief in 'Prisoners of England'. International Red Cross inspection - 24 May 1943 - Italian
prisoners, capacity 3000+.
*POW Postcards May
1946 in German to Germany /
Postcard October 1946 in German to Austria / Lettersheet December 1947 to
Germany
|
| 17 |
22 Hyde Park Gardens,
London
W2 [TQ 270 809 / 5] |
| 18 |
Featherstone Park Camp,
Haltwhistle, Northumberland - Standard camp, then Base camp from November
1944. [NY 6735 6027 / 4; site footprint still discernible]
Large camp - reportedly up to 7000 prisoners. Huts and tents;
guards' compound, two prisoners' compounds, sports field. hostels for up to 200 at Catton, Colwell and Rayless. First built for US
troops before D-Day, then used to hold Italian POWs, then German POWs -
during 1945 it became a camp for over 3000 German officers and 580
orderlies. Mentioned in
'Prisoners of England' and
'Thresholds of Peace'.
International Red Cross visit - 10 May 1944, Italian prisoners, states
capacity is 5000
*POW
Postcard 5 August 1943 in Italian to Sicily.
*POW Lettersheet 28 October 1946 in German to Germany referring to leaving camp
on 4 October. |
| 19 |
Happenden Camp, Douglas, Lanarkshire
- Base camp [listed, Scotland]
*POW Postcard 25 December 1944 in German to Germany - POW
Lettersheet 6 March 1946 in German to Germany - POW Lettersheet 21 December 1947
in German to Germany |
| 19 |
Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire
[listed, Scotland] |
| 20 |
Bickham Camp, Yelverton, Devon
[SX 504 651 / 5]
Parish of Buckland Monachorum, to the west of the main road
to Tavistock before Yelverton. Guards' compound in Bickham Park; tents,
double wire fence, watch towers. |
| 20 |
Wilton Park, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire - Special camp - [SU
960 903 / 4] (cf 300)
|
Camp in grounds of 18th C. house called Wilton
Park, near Beaconsfield. The house, also known as the White House, no
longer exists.
From July 1942 used as the Combined Services Detailed
Interrogation Centre (CSDIC) for high ranking German POWs (formerly at
Cockfosters, Camp 10). Prisoners
included Marshall Messe, Field Marshalls von Rundstedt and Busch, and
Rudolph Hess.
The CSDIC closed at the end of 1945 and the camp was used
as centre to discuss democracy in post-war Germany with 4000 POWs between
1946-8. POWs free to travel outside perimeters. From 1947 civilians from
across Europe replaced the POWs, who had all left by the summer of 1948.
Mentioned in 'Prisoners of England' and 'Thresholds of Peace'. |
 |
|
| 20 |
Bramham No.1 Camp, Bramham,
Yorkshire - Base camp [SE 42 43 / 5]
[At the moment I have included here the following
information about 2 camps at nearby Wetherby from Ian Leadley. I am
not sure if these were satellite camps of Bramham No.1, or camps in their
own right? : "I belong to a group of retired Wetherby men who actually
remember there were two Prisoner of War camps here. One was situated in
Grange Park and I know the man who helped his father to demolish the Nissen
huts whish housed the prisoners. The second was just north of Kirk Deighton
(about a mile out of Wetherby) adjacent to the old Great North Road. This is
now in North Yorkshire [just!] and is adjacent to the A168 now that the new
A1M has been constructed. Earlier this month (March 2010) I went and took
photographs of the remaining structures. I know someone who remembers the
camp being constructed. He tells me that after the prisoners left it was
used as a chicken farm. After that the huts were made uninhabitable to stop
tramps sleeping in them. "]
|
| 21 |
Cultybraggan Camp, Comrie, Perthshire
- Base camp [listed, Scotland]
Built 1941
as maximum security camp for ‘Black patched’ Nazis. Five compounds +
additional officers compound. Held up to 4000 POWs. Closed as a POW camp in
1947.
International Red Cross visit - 13 May 1944 -
German prisoners; 15 June 1944 states capacity is 4500.
International Red Cross Report from visit
21 November, 1945
POW (Wolfgang Rosterg) from Le Marchant Camp [no.23] was suspected of being
a British spy and murdered - 8 Germans were tried, 5 were executed and a
sixth sentenced to penal servitude for life. The camp was taken over by the army in
1949. A good
deal of the site still exists.
For further history see - 'For Fuhrer and Fatherland', by R De Normann.
Note - there are accounts that Rudolph
Hess was held at this camp for 1 night when he crash landed in Scotland.
However, the following email from Peter
R McNaughton
would refute that:
"You may be interested in knowing that
Rudolph Hess never stayed at Camp 21 in Comrie. He did, however, stay at
Buchanan Castle some 40 miles away, near Buchlyvie.
The father of a friend of mine was the one who captured him. The story goes
that Mr. Clark was at a soiree in the evening and heard the crash. On
looking out he saw flames coming from a crashed aircraft on the hillside.
He was dressed in a tuxedo and strapped on his Sam Brown belt with revolver
over it and went to investigate. He came across this figure moaning and
staggering around. He drew his revolver and then took the man to the house
where the soiree was being held. There the prisoner was handed over to the
military police. It was only later that he realized that his revolver was
not loaded! And only much later that he found out that his prisoner was, in
fact, Hess.
The following day, much to his embarrassment the Duke of Hamilton, a
Spitfire pilot in Edinburgh, was asked to go and identify him. Apparently
Hess had met him in Berlin in or around 1936. Hess thought that by naming
him and suggesting he knew him, that the Duke could identify him and would
lead him to Churchill. Hess, of course, was a lunatic. He had apparently
hoped to come to an arrangement of stopping the War. The following day he
was sent to London where he was incarcerated in the Tower of London until he
was flown to Nuremberg.
The article that everyone quotes was in either the Daily Mail or the Daily
Mirror. As with many rags the reporter jazzed up the article with this
comment. [That he was held at the POW camp].
Rudolph Hess was never in Comrie Camp (Camp 21) but was in Scotland for only
two nights. The first when he was captured (or gave himself up) and the
second at Buchanan castle in Bucklyvie near Kippen and Loch Lomond in
Stirlingshire.
The first group of prisoners in Comrie camp were Italians from the Western
desert campaign. They were given pinkish/mauve togs to wear. They eventually
were shipped to other camps. The very first prisoner in the camp in late
1939/early 1940 was a sergeant from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
He had gone AWOL from Stirling Castle as he was concerned about the health
of his pregnant wife. He was marched under escort right up Dalginross in
Comrie. Much to the amazement of the local people!
You may be interested in knowing that I was born in Drummond Street in
Comrie in February 1944. I have just completed a rather extensive article on
the life of the late Helmut Stenger who was a POW in Comrie Camp from late
1943 to late 1946."
Mentioned in 'Thresholds of Peace'.
*POW Lettersheet 23 April 1946 in German
to Germany - Letter 18 December
1947 addressed to German POW in camp returned ADDRESSEE REPATRIATED / RETURN
TO SENDER |
| 22 |
Pennylands Camp, Cumnock, Ayrshire
- Base camp [listed, Scotland] "Pennylands
[Auchinleck parish] lying to the south-west of the village [of Auchinleck]
between the Barony Road and the River Lugar, was originally part of the
Dumfries House estate. During WWII it was taken over by the War Office for
use as a camp, and soldiers of many nationalities were billeted there. Later
it was converted into a Prisoner of War camp and there are still
entanglements left over from that time."
Third Statistical Account of Ayrshire, John Strawhorn
and William Boyd, Edinburgh 1951, page 664. The site was later
used as a Polish repatriation centre. By 1951 the camp had been almost
totally demolished, with only a few huts surviving at the N end.
International Red
Cross report 14 November, 1945 on the submarine part of Camp 22;
and the IRC report of main camp 15
November 1945. |
| 22 |
Bourton Camp, Bourton-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire
- [not listed in 2003 report] (cf 157 and notes there) |
| 23 |
Le Marchant Camp, Devizes, Wiltshire
- Base camp - [SU 00 61 / 5] (cf 410)
Located next to army barracks. At first used as a transit camp, became a
permanent camp for up to 7500 POWs in November 1944. Closed April, 1946 -
and became 410 German PW Working Camp, closing in February, 1947.
December 1944 plot by some POWs to
escape, supposedly to commandeer vehicles and tanks from the nearby army depot then to
release prisoners from other camps. The plot was detected and suspects sent
to Comrie [Camp 21], where the story continues. For further history see -
'For Fuhrer and Fatherland', by R De Normann.
Mentioned in 'Thresholds of
Peace'.
|
| 23 |
Sudbury Camp, Oaks Green,
Derbyshire - [SK 1596 3329 / 1, 2003 a prison]
(cf 1004, 1023)
Originally a military hospital.
5 October 1946, a German POW, Otto Jankowick, was shot dead by a Polish
sentry. In the House of Commons on 22 October, Mr. Frederick Bellenger M.P.
reported; "This prisoner and one other were seen outside the wire of
their camp at 1.30 a.m. on 5th October, attempting to escape. They were
challenged four times by the Polish sentry on guard. One stopped but the
other, Otto Jankowick, continued to run. The sentry then shot at the
escaping prisoner, in accordance with standing orders for guards and
sentries. He died in hospital at 6 a.m. on the same day. Polish guard
companies have been employed at certain camps in relief of British manpower.
Some have been withdrawn and the remainder will cease to be available for
these duties in the near future." HC Deb 22 October
1946 vol 427 cc1468
*POW Lettersheet from German POW to Germany November 1946 |
| 23 |
Green Fields Camp, Ellesmere Road, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
[SJ 492 138 / 5] |
| 23 |
Kingwood, Wormley, Godalming, Surrey
[SU 94 38 / 5] |
| 24 |
No.4 General Hospital, Knutsford, Cheshire
[SJ 75 78 / 5]
International Red Cross visit - 19 November 1941, 11
March 1942, 26 May 1942, German and Italian prisoners. |
| 24 |
Knapedale, Lochgilphead, Argyll
[listed, Scotland] |
| 25 |
Lodge Farm Camp, nr Baydon, Newbury, Berkshire
- Standard type [SU 296 773 / 4] Camp established during 1941 to house 500
POWs. At first it held Italian POW many working on local farms. Uniforms of
dark brown battledress with large red circle on back of jacket and left
trouser leg. Later in war and post war, Italians replaced by German POW’s
(German Working Camp). |
| 25 |
Cloister Croft Camp, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
[SP 319 672 / 4] |
| 26 |
Barton Field Camp,
(West Fen) Ely, Cambridgeshire [TL 5353 7957 / 4; now housing and a
golf course] (cf. 130?)
International Red Cross inspection - 10 February 1943 -
capacity 750. German working camp. |
| 27 |
Ledbury Camp, Ledbury, Herefordshire
[SO 700 371 / 4; site occupied by John Mansefield School]
German working camp. |
| 27 |
3 Magdala Road,
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire [SK 570 418 / 1] |
| 28 |
| Garendon Park, Loughborough, Leicestershire
[SK 50 19 / 4] |
 |
|
| 28 |
|
Knight Thorpe Camp,
Ashby Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire [SK 452 320 / 5]
Grman working camp. Mentioned briefly in 'Thresholds of Peace'.
*POW Postcard 4 August 1946 in German
to Germany |
|
| 29 |
Claremont, Abergavenny,
Monmouthshire [listed, Wales] |
| 29 |
Royston Heath Camp,
Royston, Hertfordshire - Standard type [TL 358 415 / 4]
German working camp. |
| 29 |
Ormskirk,
Lancashire [SD 41 08 / 5] |
| 30 |
Anglesey House,
Hoath End, Aldershot, Hampshire [SU 86 50 / 5] |
| 30 |
Carpenters Road Camp,
Stratford East, London E15 [TQ 38 84 / 5]
German working camp. |
| 31 |
Ettington Park Camp, Newbold-on-Stour, Warwickshire -
Standard type [SP 249 476 / 4]
In the grounds of Ettington Hall. Italians,
later German working camp.
International Red Cross visit - 30 December 1943 -
Italian prisoners, capacity 800.
1946 view of the camp > |
 |
|
| 32 |
Wormwood Scrubs, (Scrubbs Lane
Camp), Shepherd's Bush, London W12 [TQ 22
81 / 5]
German working camp.
*POW Lettersheet 8 March 1947 in German to German Russian Zone |
| 32 |
Plas Llwynon Camp, Anglesey
Camp, Anglesey [listed, Wales] |
| 33 |
Shorncliffe Camp,
St.Martin's Plain,
Folkestone, Kent - [TR 18 36 / 5] (cf670a)
Large pre-existing military camp.
*POW Lettersheet 23 February 1944 in Italian
to Italy |
| 33 |
Dancer's Hill, [St.Albans
Road?] South Mimms, Hertfordshire - [TQ 236 994 / 4]
(cf122g)
Guards' compound with huts, prisoners' compound mainly tents, double wire
fence + small prisoners' compound to southwest with 5 tents, guarded by two
watch towers. |
| 33 |
Old Windmills Camp,
Blackthorn, Arncot, Oxfordshire - Standard type - [SP 608 207 / 3]
(cf 610, 632, 653) |
| 34 |
Acksea Camp, Kinnerley, Oswestry,
Shropshire - [SJ 3540 1938 / 2; military training area in 2003]
(cf 1018) |
| 34 |
Warebank Camp,
Kirkwall, Orkney [listed, Scotland] |
| 35 |
Boughton Park Camp, (Weekley Camp), Boughton, Northamptonshire
- standard type - [SP 749 664 / 4] (cf 259)
International Red Cross visit - 5 January 1944 -
Italian prisoners, capacity 870. Later German working camp. Camp newspaper -
'Lager Zeitung'. |
|
36 |
Hartwell Dog Track, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
[SP 807 121 / 4]
Wikipedia -
The camp's location is given as near to Ellen Road,
adjacent to where the Walton Court housing estate was later built.
Record of Italian prisoners there
from 1942 to 1946.
International Red
Cross visit to 4 hostels attached to Camp 36 was carried out on 31 October
1945. The hostels were :
1. Braddenham -
opened 18 August 1945, 10 tents x 10 men + 1 large marquee tent, 100 German
prisoners.
2. Attached to POW
camp (Wexham Road?), opened 13 August 1945, 10 tents x 10 men, 100 men
3. Coleshill
Amersham, opened 13 August 1945, 100 men in tents
4. Northchurch
hostel, opened 13 August 1945, large hut, 50 men.
|
| 36 |
Walworth Castle, Walworth, Co.Durham
[NZ 2316 1884 / 4]
During the Second World War the Castle was let to the Durham Light Infantry
where they used it for high ranking German and Italian officers. Now a
hotel. + Nissen huts to east of castle. |
|
37 |
Sudeley Castle Camp, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
- standard type [SP 030 279 / 4]
Believed that camp opened early
in 1942 holding up to 400 prisoners and that it closed at end of 1945.
[Archivist at Sudeley Castle]
|
| 37 |
Colley Lane, Bridgewater, Somerset - [ST
306 365 / 5] (cf 553) |
| 38 |
Pool Park Camp, Ruthin, Denbighshire
[listed, Wales]
International Red Cross visit - 26 November 1943,
caqpacity 750 |
| 39 |
Castle Maxstoke Camp, Coleshill, Warwickshire
- standard type [SP 228 889 / 4; now part golfcourse] Camp set in the castle
grounds.
International Red Cross visit - 31 December 1943 - Italian prisoners,
capacity 840. Later German working camp.
*POW Postcard August 1943 in Italian to Italy - POW
Postcard May 1945 in
Italian to Parma, Italy. *Letter
with ordinary envelope and paper, 25.4.1948 in German to Berlin. Very late
date, envelope has POW circular handstamp + POW postcard TO camp 39 dated
1948 from 'Camp Post Office 196 Great Britain'. |
|
40 |
Somerhill Camp, Tonbridge, Kent
[TQ 666 530 / 4]
International
Red Cross visit - 15 July 1942 - Italian prisoners, capacity 575; 1 April
1943 Italian prisoners, capacity 750.
Later German working camp. Mentioned in 'Thresholds of
Peace'. |
|
41 |
Ganger Camp, Romsey, Hampshire -
standard type [SU 373 228 / 4]
Italians, later
German working camp.
*POW Lettersheet 22 May 1943 in Italian to Italy
- POW
Postcard 26 October 1944 in Italian to USA. |
| 42 |
Exhibition Field Camp, Holsworthy, Devon
- standard type [SS 343 047 / 4] From 1942. Later German
working camp. |
| 43 |
Harcourt Hill Camp, North Hinksey,
Oxfordshire - standard type [SP 488 044 / 4] Mentioned in 'Prisoners of
England'.
*POW card
7/7/45 from Italian to
Sicily.
|
|
44 |
Goathurst Camp, (Haswell
House) Goathurst, Bridgwater, Somerset
- standard type [ST 259 337 / 4]
Initially Italian, then German POW.
Memories of ex POW |
| 45 |
Trumpington Camp, Trumpington, Cambridgeshire
- standard type - [TL 441 541 / 4] (cf 180)
International Red Cross inspection - 9 February 1943 -
Italian prisoners, capacity 750. Later German working camp.
*POW Lettersheet to Austria 1946 |
| 46 |
Kingsfold Camp, Marringdean Road, Billinghurst, Sussex
- standard type [TQ 088 246 / 4] |
| 47 |
Motcombe Park Camp, Shaftesbury, Dorset
- standard type [ST 847 244 / 4] |
| 48 |
Greenfield Farm, Presteign, nr
Radnor, Radnorshire [listed, Wales]
International Red Cross inspection - 7 July 1943 - Italian
prisoners, capacity 826.
*POW Lettersheet 10 December 1946 in German to Germany |
| 49 |
Harrington Camp, Farndon
Fields Farm, Farndon Road, Market Harborough, Leicestershire
- standard type [SP 725 864 / 3; 2003 a caravan site] |
| 50 |
| Garswood Park, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire
- standard type [SJ 5749 9849 / 4; site now a school]
Italian and from about 1944 German POWs. Last Germans
left for Camp 189 (Dunham
Park) and Garswood Park camp closed on 1
April 1948.
International Red Cross visit - 19 November 1943 - Italian prisoners,
capacity 800.
Later German working camp.
*POW Postcard November 1946 to Germany |

|
|
Back to top
|