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Releasing a carrier pigeonVintage Photographs - Prisoners of War
Updated - Saturday, 27 May, 2006

This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war.  Specifically this sub-section contains photos of prisoners of war captured on each of the war's numerous fronts.

Click here to read introductory notes relating to this section, including information on photograph sources.  Use the sidebar to the right to select other categories of photos available within this section.

The photos reproduced below are in thumbnail format - simply click a given photograph to view a larger copy within a separate window.

Arrival of Americans watched by German prisoners (CNP) Exchange of captured German-Russian prisoners at Tornea, Sweden (CPE)
German prisoner captured by a U.S. infantryman (WW) Germans taken prisoner by the British in Flanders in 1918 (WW)
Russian prisoners being bathed, shaved and fumigated by German captors (NW) Russians soldiers immediately after being captured (NW)
Captured German prisoners at the Somme, 1 July 1916 (MF) German prisoners at Nieuport (MF)
Serbian prisoners of war (CPE) Russian prisoners at Agustowo, Poland (CPE)
Wounded German prisoner aided by a French officer (CPE) Marching Turkish prisoners through New Street in Baghdad (WW)
Turkish prisoners captured by British at Kara Tepe (WW) Austrian prisoners receiving breakfast from Russian captors (WW)
Russian infantry and Cossack prisoners captured in Galicia (WW) A line of German prisoners guarded by a U.S. infantryman (WW)
British soldiers with German prisoners at Beaumont-Hamel (WW) U.S. military police leading a line of German prisoners (WW)
German prisoners captured during the Allied Offensive of 1918 (WW) French prison camp near the Oise river (WW)
German prisoners captured by the British at Bapaume (WW) German prisoners (WW)
German prisoners carry their Canadian guard (WW) British prisoners of war building fences under German guard (NW)
French prisoners with their morning soup (NW) German soldiers captured by the British during Spring 1918 (WW)
Austrian prisoners captured in the Carpathians (NW) Cossacks capture German spies on the roof of a Polish farmhouse (NW)
Russian troops captured at Praszaysz (NW) Russian prisoners of war at Doeberitz, near Berlin (NW)
10,000 Russian prisoners in one column captured at Galicia (NW) German prisoners of war being inspected by French officers (NW)
German prisoners on the march (GW) Algerian Cavalry bringing in German prisoners in France (GW)
German prisoners in Britain on fatigue duty (GW) French officers interrogating German prisoners (GW)
Austrian prisoners under Serbian escort arriving at Uskub (GW) Turkish prisoners being escorted into Cairo (GW)
Austrian prisoners at Przemysl preparing for march to Lemberg (GW) German prisoners from Neuve Chapelle in Lancashire (GW)
Turkish prisoners at a British camp in Gallipoli (GW) Turkish prisoners en route to a British camp at Gallipoli (GW)
Turkish prisoners in the courtyard of the Sedd-el-Bahr fortress (GW) Batch of German prisoners and their escort of Moroccan troops (GW)
A Turkish sniper, disguised as a bush, captured by Anzacs (GW) German troops bringing in Russian prisoners to Warsaw, Aug 1915 (GW)
German prisoners arriving at Casablanca, Morocco (GW) Wounded Turkish prisoners being brought into the British lines (GW)
German prisoners of war captured at Loos passing through Southampton (GW) Group of German prisoners captured at Champagne, September 1915 (GW)
Dorset Yeomanry bringing in Senussi prisoners (GW) German prisoners captured among the craters of St Eloi, March 1916 (GW)
German prisoners employed in cleaning a French 75 gun (GW) Turkish prisoners at Shaiba fort (GWS)
Turkish prisoners escorted by Gurkhas following battle at Shaiba (GWS) German prisoners conveyed from Windhoek to the coast (GWS)
Men of the 1st South African Mounted Rifles taken prisoner at Windhoek (GWS) Turkish prisoners having wounds dressed after fighting at Gallipoli (GWS)
Senior prisoner Staff Officers' room at POW camp at Friedberg, Germany (GWS) Room for six officers at POW camp at Friedberg, Germany (GWS)
Officers' music room at POW camp at Friedberg, Germany (GWS) Officers' mess-rom at POW camp at Friedberg, Germany (GWS)
Officers' canteen at POW camp at Friedberg, Germany (GWS) British prisoners recovering wasteland while under guard (GWS)
Distribution of food to British prisoners-of-war in Germany (GWS) British prisoners-of-war put to spadework (GWS)
Convoy of British prisoners of war captured by Germans in Flanders (GWS) German troops captured in Flanders marching through London (GWS)
German troops captured in Flanders marching through London (GWS) German troops captured in Flanders marching through London (GWS)
Exchanged British Red Cross prisoners arriving at St Pancras, London (GWS) Exchanged British Red Cross prisoners arriving at St Pancras, London (GWS)
A Dutch woman distributing gifts to returning British prisoners (GWS) German prisoners of war being led through a French trench system (GWS)
Russian prisoners pass German reserves en route to Galicia (GWS) Prisoners in Austrian hands (GWS)
Russian prisoners set to construction work for their Austrian captors (GWS) Major C. A. L. Yate, V.C. while a German prisoner (GWS)
German prisoners of war at a refreshment hut in Dorset (GWS) German prisoners of war at a refreshment hut in Dorset (GWS)
Turkish prisoners under escort in Gallipoli (GWS) Turkish prisoners (GWS)
Turkish prisoners under guard at Seddul Bahr (GWS) Turkish prisoners at Lemnos (GWS)

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