Vintage Photographs - Prisoners of War
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.
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 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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