International Red Cross inspection - 28 June 1944.

Inchdrewer House, Colinton Camp, Midlothian

*6 April 1944 to Italy

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

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

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

*5 September 1947 to Germany

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

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

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

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

High Hall Camp, Bishop Burton, Yorkshire

Chaddlewood House Camp, Plympton, Devon

Last prisoners to leave 7 May 1948

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

Pendeford Hall, Codsall, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire

Italian, then German POWs

Watten Camp, Wick, Caithness - base camp

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

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

[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."

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

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'. 

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

Dunham Park Camp, Altrincham, Cheshire - base camp

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

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.

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'.

Ninewells Camp, Chirnside, Berwickshire

Adderley Hall, Adderley, Shropshire - [cf 192]

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.

Butterwick Camp, Malton, Yorkshire

Basildon House, Pangbourne, Berkshire

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