POW Camps in India
Letter-sheet sent from Italy to Camp 26, Yol, India. Ref: 07.10.1944
POW Camps in India
Group I – Bangalore: Camps 1 to 8 - Italian prisoners.
Group II – Bhopal: Camps 9 to 16 – Italian prisoners. Camp 16 was a hospital.
Group III – Ramgarh: Camps 17 to 20 – German Civil Internees and later Italian prisoners. Had a punishment camp for difficult Italian pows.
Group IV - Clement Town (Dehradun): Camps 21 to 24 – Separated in Wings 1: pro-Nazi, 2: anti-Nazi, 3: Italians. One of the camps was a Central Internment Camp.
Group V – Yol: Camps 25 to 28 – Italian prisoners.
Group VI – Bikaner: Camp 29 – Japanese prisoners. It was also a punishment camp for difficult Italian pows.
Central Internment Camp (Dehradun/ Premnagar): This was mixed civilian internment and prisoner-of-war camp. Italian prisoners of war and German civilian internees housed in separate camps. Wing 1 and Wong 6 held German internees.
Delhi – Japanese Camp: Delhi housed the Japanese prisoners captured in Burma.
Deoli – Civil Internment Camp: Deoli housed German civilian internees and Japanese civilian internees. It was also a punishment colony for Germans.
Link to an excellent website detailing the currency coupons issed by each camp
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