PRISONERS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR ICRC HISTORICAL RECORDS

[themonsstar]

Archives 1914-1918 : during the First World War, 10 million people, service men or civilians, were captured and sent to detention camps.

The belligerent countries sent lists of prisoners of various nationalities to the ICRC. Then it set up alphabetical indexes. You can use them to search for a person.


http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/

Good luck with your research

[Tim Bell]

Wow,

What a good resource.  Hard to use, but I may to get to grips with the data.

Well spotted Roy.

Tim

[John W]

Many thanks for this - I found my great grandfather within minutes!