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Please note - all the information that I have about the camps is listed below.

I cannot supply information about individual POW's. If you are a relative of an ex POW held during World War 2, then you would need to contact :
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No. Details
101 Glandulas Camp, Newtown, Montgomeryshire
102 Llanddarog Camp, Llanddarog, Carmarthenshire
103 Moota Camp, Cockermouth, Cumberland - standard type

International Red Cross inspection - 28 June 1944.

Opened 1942 to accommodate just over 1000 prisoners. Became a camp for displaced persons in 1947.

104 Bela River Camp, Milnthorpe, Westmoreland

International Red Cross inspection - 3 June 1943 - Italian prisoners, capacity 750.
Mentioned in 'Thresholds of Peace'.

105

Inchdrewer House, Colinton Camp, Midlothian

 

*6 April 1944 to Italy

105
Wooler Camp, Brewery Road, Wooler, Nothumberland - standard type.
105 Hetton House Camp, Chatton, Wooler, Northumberland
106 Stamford Camp, Empingham Rd, Stamford, Lincolnshire - Standard camp - [cf10]

*Letter to German prisoner in camp June / July 1946
107 Penleigh Camp, Wookey Hole, nr Wells, Somerset - standard camp

Letter to Germany 1947
108 Thirkleby Camp, Little Thirkleby, Yorkshire - standard camp

Constructed 1943. 18 living huts. 1943 Commandant, Captain J.E.N.Scaife - 1944 change of Commandant to Lt.Col. T.McGreig. Italian POWs 1943-44, then German POWs 1944-48.
109 Brahan Castle (Estate), Dingwall, Ross-shire

*22 October 1945 to Italy
110 Stuartfield Camp, Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire

International Red Cross inspection - 28 May 1943 - Italian prisoners, capacity 500.
*11 March 1947 letter to German POW
111 Deer Park Camp, Monymusk, Aberdeenshire

International Red Cross inspection - 28 May 1943 - Italian prisoners, states capacity is 750.

Initially the camp used as hostel for Polish and Eastern European displaced persons at the beginning of WW2. Later converted into a PoW Camp around 1942-43. Capacity up to 1700 men and covered an area of 25 acres opposite Monymusk School on what is now St Ninian's housing estate. More

*2 June 1943 - 22 October 1944 to Italy

112

Doonfoot (Bun) Camp, nr Ayr, Ayrshire - [cf 14]

 

December 1944, 97 Italian POWs escaped by tunnel - all re-captured.

 

*5 September 1947 to Germany

112 Kingencleugh Camp, Mauchline, Ayrshire

*19 July 1943 - 22 February 1944 to Italy
113 Holm Park Camp, Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire
114 Eden Vale Camp, Westbury, Wiltshire - standard camp

115

White Cross Camp, St Columb Major, Cornwall - standard camp

 

Approx 12 acres. Italian, later German POWs. Mentioned in 'Thresholds of Peace'. 

116 Mill Lane Camp, Hatfield Heath, Essex - standard camp
117 Walderslade Camp, King George Street, Chatham, Kent
118 Mardy Camp, nr Abergavenny, Monmouthshire
119 Pabo Hall Camp / Bryn Estyn, Llandudno Junction, Caernarvonshire
120 Sunlaws Camp, Kelso, Roxburghshire

*29 November 1943 - 29 November 1945 POW letter forms written in Italian to Italy

121

Scriven Hall Camp, Knaresborough, Yorkshire - [cf 211]

121 Racecourse Camp, Ripon, Yorkshire

122

Hatch End Camp, (Oxhey Lane Camp), Hatch End, Middlesex - standard camp - [cf 274]

122 Rayners Lane, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex - [cf 11a]
122G Dancer's Hill, [St.Albans Road?] South Mimms, Hertfordshire - [cf 33]
123 Dalmahoy Camp, Kirknewton, Midlothian

*6 September 1944 to Italy

124

Bedminster Camp, (Ashton Gate Camp), Ashton Gate, Bristol, Gloucestershire

124 Wapley Camp, Yate, Bristol
125 Newlands House, Tooting Bec Road, London SW17
126 Mellands Camp, Sandfold Lane, Gorton, Lancashire

*1947 from German POW
127 Potter's Hill, High Green, Sheffield, Yorkshire - [cf 296]

Translation of Red Cross report dated 14 November 1945
128 Meesden, Buntingford, Hertfordshire
129
Ashford (Lodge) Camp, Halstead, Essex  

*10 December 1945 l/sheet from Italian POW to Italy.                                                                                                                In use late 1945 >

130 West Fen Militia Camp, Ely, Cambridgeshire - standard camp  (26?)
131 Uplands Camp, Diss, Norfolk
132 Kimberley Park, Kimberley, Norfolk

*16 September 1945 l/sheet from Italian POW to Italy
132 Northwick Park Hospital, Blockley, Gloucestershire - [cf 232]

The first US Medical Staff arrived 20 December 1943, more in 1944 - 327th Station Hospital. Status changed 1 June 1944 to American Red Cross Unit Hospital working under control of International Red Cross. Hospital closed during the third week of June 1945.

133 Hetton House Camp, Chatton, Alnwick, Northumberland

*6 March 1945 POW letter form written in Italian to Naples
134 Loxley Hall, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire
135 Stanbury House Camp, Spencer's Wood, Reading, Berkshire

136

High Hall Camp, Bishop Burton, Yorkshire

136a Welton House Camp, Brough, Yorkshire - [cf 264]

137

Chaddlewood House Camp, Plympton, Devon

 

Last prisoners to leave 7 May 1948

 

*POW letter from German POW to Berlin, dated 12 October 1947.

137 Hazledene (Elburton) Camp, Elburton, Plymstock, Devon
137b Winsford Towers Camp, Halwil, Beaworthy, Devon
138 The Rectory Camp, Bassingham, Lincolnshire - hostel
139 Wolviston Hall, Wolviston, Co.Durham - hostel
139b Coxhoe Hall Camp, Coxhoe, C.Durham
140 Racecourse Camp, Warwick, Warwickshire
141 Beeson House Camp, St Neots, Huntingdonshire
142 Brockworth Court, Brockworth, Gloucester, Gloucestershire
143 Serlby Hall Camp, Serlby, Blyth, Nottinghamshire
143 Carlton Hall, Carlton, Nottinghamshire
144 Ruskin Avenue, Kew, Surrey
145 Normanhurst (Court) Camp, Battle, East Sussex
146 Newton Camp, Kirkham, Lancashire - hostel
147 Boar's Head Camp, Walgherton, nr Nantwich, Cheshire
148 Castlethorpe (Hall) Camp, Castlethorpe, Lincolnshire
149 Lee House, Romsey, Hants
150 Walpole Road, Cherry Hinton, Cambridge

151

Pendeford Hall, Codsall, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire

151a Lawne Camp, Coven, Staffordshire
151b Halfpenny Green, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire
152 Old Liberal Club, Charnwood Road, Shepshed, Leicestershire
153 Fulney Park Camp, Spalding, Lincolnshire
154 Ministry of Works Camp, Swanscombe, Kent
155 Hornby Hall Camp, High Street, Brougham, Cumberland
156 The Heath Camp, Wellingore, Lincolnshire
157 Bourton Camp, Bourton-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire - standard base camp - [cf 22]

Italian, then German POWs

*1947 l/sheet from German POW

158? None known
159 Butterwick Camp, Boythorpe, Yorkshire - [cf 163]

Tented camp - "I did not count the number of the British guards; they should have been up to 30 or 40 soldiers. We were about 5000 PoW’s shared out to three cages numbered A, B, C, per 2000 of us in cage A and B, l000 in cage C." POW memories.

160 Military Hospital, Lydiard Park, Purton, Wiltshire - [cf 289]

*10 March 1946 / 10 June 1946 from German POWs
161 Belfast Military Hospital (Grangefield Camp), Belfast, County Down
162 Military Hospital, Naburn, Yorkshire

Received many severely under-nourished German soldiers after the end of the occupation of the Channel Islands. 
163 Butterwick Camp, Boythorpe, Yorkshire - base camp - [cf 159]
164 Weston Lane Camp, Otley, Yorkshire - base camp - [cf 245]

165

Watten Camp, Wick, Caithness - base camp

 

Included hard-core Nazi POWs. Mentioned in 'Thresholds of Peace'.

165 Kirkwall Camp, Orkney
166 Wollaton Park Camp, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire - base camp

*11 March 1945 from German POW
167 Shady Lane Camp, Stoughton, Leicestershire - base camp

Mentioned briefly in 'Thresholds of Peace'.         *1944.

168

Glen Mill Camp, Oldham, Lancashire - [cf 2 and 176]

168 Brookmill Camp, Woodlands, Kirkham, Lancashire - base camp
169 Tollerton Hall Camp, Tollerton, Nottinghamshire - [cf 613, 698]

*10 May 1946
170 Weelsby Camp, Grimsby, Lincolnshire - base camp - [cf 292]
171 Isle of Man Camp, Mereside Empire Terrace, Douglas - base camp
171 Camp A, Knowsley Park, Prescott, Lancashire - base camp
171 Bungay Base Camp, Bungay, Suffolk
172 Dog and Duck Cottage, Norton-in-Malton, Yorkshire
172 Holywood Camp, Belfast, County Down - base camp - [cf 14, 682]
173 Rockport Camp, Belfast, County Down - base camp - [cf 681]
174 Norton Park Camp, Cuckney, Nottinghamshire - base camp

Mentioned in 'Thresholds of Peace'.
175 Flaxley Green Camp, Stilecop Field, Rugeley, Staffordshire - Standard camp - [cf16]

*Letter from Italian POW to Besana, Milan, 1 December 1945 *Letter from Italian to Italy ?/1946
176 Glen Mill Camp, Oldham, Lancashire - [cf 2 and 168]
177 Warth Mills, Bury, Lancashire - [cf 8, 9 and 12a]
178
Ure Bank Camp, Ripon, Yorkshire - base camp - [cf 247]

Picture from camp magazine >

Mentioned in 'Prisoners of England'.

179

[The Hayes] Swanwick Hayes, Swanwick, Derbyshire - base camp - [cf 5, 13, 58, 297]

 

Details from IRC Report on Camp 179 - 26 February, 1945. Capacity: 2,250. Commandant: Lt. Col. R.C.G. Joy. Nationalities: German : 165 / Dutch : 110 / Czechoslovaks : 2 / Norwegian : 1x / Luxembourg : 1x / Jugoslavs : 13 / Total : 292 (2 Medical Officers, 1 Protestant chaplain, and 289 other ranks. Camp leader: Hauptfeldwebel TROSKA, Georg, A842722.

 

General description - "Camp 179 when last visited was No.5, and, before that, No.13. On my last visit... the "Hostel", a building with a capacity of 500, was used for the POW officers, and all the rest of the POW lived in tents surrounded by a morass of mud. During the winter, all POW were taken out of the tents and transferred to other camps, with the exception of the present number of POW who were retained for camp construction, etc., and are accommodated in the "Hostel". There are three POW to a room, palliasses plus two blankets and a head-roll serve as bedding"

 

"According to the Campleader, 80% of the POW are employed, the rest will get work in the near future, so that no man will be without funds. Rate of pay : 3/- a week. Working hours : 8. Employment : For a time on farms (where the farmers, at first sceptical, were in the end highly satisfied) and later, on camp construction.... A few POW receive mail often but all the rest, particularly the Dutch, are without news. Shortest time for a letter from Germany : 6 weeks; average time : 8 weeks. Parcels :

        a) 2 individual parcels from GRC were received on 30.1.45 and 2.2.45 respectively.

        b) 8 individual parcels were received on 30.1.45 (4) 8.2.45 (1) and 9.2.45 (3)  

GENERAL IMPRESSION OF CAMP : Very good."

 

At this time a further 2000 POW were expected.

180

Marbury Hall Camp, Northwich, Cheshire - base camp [cf 189]

 

Cage where Germans, Russians, Poles, Italians and Austrians were sent direct from Camp 9 for further sorting.

 

*1946 to Germany

180 Radwinter North Camp, Radwinter Manor, Walden Road, Radwinter, Essex - base camp

Base camp towards end of the war. Closed, then re-opened after a year in June 1946 as a Youth Camp for German POWs aged 18 to 26 to spend 3 months there. 542 young men were held at  the start, rising later to 1300. Mentioned in 'Thresholds of Peace'. 

Card to Germany 1947
180 Trumpington Camp, Trumpington, Cambridgeshire - standard type - [cf 45]

POW camp during war. Later takes over from Radwinter Camp 180 as Youth Camp. Mentioned in 'Thresholds of Peace'. 
181

Carburton, Worksop, Nottinghamshire - base camp - [cf 249]

1945 Commandant, Lieutenant-Colonel Ellison. Following an escape at Bridgend Camp 11, this camp changed from mainly German other ranks to high security camp for Nazi officers, (1,300 arriving 23 March 1945). Further details in 'Thresholds of Peace'

182 Barony Camp, Parkgate, Dumfries - base camp - [cf 298]
183 Quorn Camp, Wood Lane, Quorn, Leicestershire - base camp - [cf 9]
183 Beckton Marshes Camp, East Ham, London E6
184 Llanmartin, Magor, Monmouthshire - base camp

Used to hold other ranks up to August 1946, then officers mainly from Crewe Hall (191), Llanover Hall (200) and Lodge Moor (17) camps.

Mentioned in 'Prisoners of England' and in 'Thresholds of Peace' where it is listed as Camp 186.

*POW letter from German POW to Germany, dated 19 October 1947.

185 Springhill Lodge Camp, Blockley, Gloucestershire - base camp

After war became centre for displaced persons.

186 Berechurch Hall Camp, Colchester, Essex - base camp

Also used as screening / interrogation centre

187 Dungannon, County Tyrone
187 Ivybridge Camp, Ivybridge, Devon - [cf 404]
188 Johnstone Castle Camp, Johnstone, Renfrewshire - base camp

*6 May 1946 - 2 December 1945 to Germany

189

Dunham Park Camp, Altrincham, Cheshire - base camp

189 Marbury Hall, Northwich, Cheshire - [cf 180]

Letter to a private in the Royal West Kents dated 1947
190 Lisanoure Camp, Loughgiel, Cloughmills, County Antrim - base camp
191 Crewe Hall, Stowford, Crewe, Cheshire - base camp

1945 - 1,400 German officers. Mentioned in 'Prisoners of England' and 'Thresholds of Peace'.

*March 1946 letter to Camp Commandant

192 Adderley Hall, Adderley, Shropshire - base camp - [cf 240]
193 Madeley Tile Works Camp, Madeley, Cheshire - base camp
193 Hampton Park, London
194 Teddesley Hall Camp, Penkridge, Staffordshire
194 Council House Camp, Penkridge, Staffordshire
195 Merevale Hall Camp, Atherstone, Warwickshire - base camp - [cf 241]
196 Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire - base camp
197 The Mount Camp, Chepstow, Monmouthshire - base camp
198 Island Farm Camp, Bridgend, South Wales - base camp

Originally a camp for workers at the nearby Royal Ordnance Factory, then used by US troops. After D-Day, the camp was used to hold German POWs. Following a large scale escape from the camp it was shut down (March 1945) and the remaining prisoners sent to Camp 181. Redesignated as Special camp 11.

Very extensive history on - http://www.islandfarm.fsnet.co.uk/

199 Ystrad Camp, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire - base camp
199 Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire
200 Llanover Park, Llanover, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire - base camp

1944 the site used by US Troops training for D-Day, (they were to land on Utah Beach). After D-Day the camp held German and Italian prisoners from 1944 until 1946 - officers remaining transferred to Llanmartin Camp 184. Mentioned in 'Prisoners of England'.

*from German prisoner 10 December 1946

202 M.U. (Maintenance Unit) RAF Camp, Longparish, Hampshire
204 Colchester, Essex (or 201?)
211 Scriven Hall Camp, Knaresborough, Yorkshire - base camp - [cf 121]
230 Stuckenduff Camp, Shandon, Dumbarton - base camp - [cf 582, 618]

*16 January 1947 from Germany
231 Redgrave Park Military Hospital, Diss, Suffolk

*from 16 September 1947 to 26 August 1948 from German POWs

232 Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire
232 Military Hospital Northwick Park, Blockley, Gloucestershire - [cf 132]

Built 1943 as a US field hospital. Later designated as camp 232 under the International Red Cross. After the war it was abandoned until 1947-8 when it was used by the Polish Resettlement Corps.

233 Summer House, Ravensbourne, Kent
233 Findo Gask Camp, Dunning, Perthshire

*10 September 1946 to Germany

234 Talgarth Military Hospital, Talgarth, Breconshire

235

Gorhambury Park, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

235 The Arches, Felden, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

236

Ninewells Camp, Chirnside, Berwickshire

236 White House, Church Hill, Loughton, Essex (or 237)
237 Coed Bel Camp, Lubbock Road, Chislehurst, Kent
238 Brook House, Hammingden Lane, Ardingly, Sussex
239 Weston Acres Camp, Woodmansterne, Surrey

240

Adderley Hall, Adderley, Shropshire - [cf 192]

240 Hawkstone Park, Weston, Shropshire - [cf 285]

*14 March 1948 - to Germany
241 Merevale Hall Camp, Atherstone, Warwickshire - base camp - [cf 195]
242 Cowden Camp, Comrie, Perthshire -

Message from Peter R McNaughton : "Camp 242 was a supply camp in the Cowden, Dalginross, Comrie. Here materials were stored for use in the main Camp – Camp 21". Peter got to know one of the ex-POWs.

Translation of Red Cross Inspection report - 22 November 1945.

243 Amisfield Camp, Haddington, East Lothian

244

Butterwick Camp, Malton, Yorkshire

244 Butcher Hill Camp, Horsforth, Leeds, Yorkshire
245 Weston Lane Camp, Otley, Yorkshire - [cf 164]

246

Basildon House, Pangbourne, Berkshire

246 North Camp (Working Mens' Club), Nettlebed, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
247 Ure Bank Camp, Ripon, Yorkshire - [cf 178]
248 New Drill Hall, Clay Cross, Derbyshire
248 Norton Camp, Cinderhill Lane, Norton, Yorkshire
249 Carburton, Worksop, Nottinghamshire - base camp - [cf 181]

250

Eden Camp, Malton, Yorkshire - standard type - [cf 83]

250 Thorpe Hall, Rudston, Yorkshire

 

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