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==National Service and the Home Guard==
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'''Home Guard – history'''
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*[http://www.homesweethomefront.co.uk/web_pages/hshf_homeguard_pg.htm#top The Story of the Home Guard]
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*[http://www.fortunecity.co.uk/meltingpot/oxford/330/hg/hg.html The Home Guard]
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'''Home Guard Pocket Manual'''
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*[http://met.open.ac.uk/group/jwl/hg_manual/homeguard.htm Home Guard Pocket Manual]
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*[http://rafbridgnorth.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/index.html RAF Bridgnorth]
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*[http://www.forcesreunited.org.uk/ ForcesReunited]
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*[http://www.seniorsnetwork.co.uk/forces/allforces.htm Seniors Network]
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==Medals and Decorations==
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*[http://users.rootsweb.com/~indwgw/medalpage.htm The purpose of this particular page is to provide lists of recipients of medals in British India]
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Researching Prisoners of War

The International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva keeps lists of all known POWs and internees of all nationalities for the Second World War. Enquiries concerning these lists should be directed to:

Archives Division and Research Service
International Committee of the Red Cross
19 Avenue de la Paix,
Geneva CH-1202,
Switzerland

email: archives.gva@icrc.org

International Committee Of The Red Cross


Book! Prisoners of War, British Army, 1939 - 1945

That lists alphabetically over 107,000 British Army POWs of all ranks held in Germany or in German occupied territories in World War Two. It gives each POW's camp, POW number, surname, initials, rank, army number and regiment/corps.

It was re-published in 1990, by J B Hayward and Sons of Polstead, Suffolk (cost £38) ISBN 0-903754-61-

Useful Links

PRISONERS OF WAR - 109TH MEDICAL BATTALION (1942 - 1945)

For records of Servicemen and Women who served in WW2 and beyond:

Nuremberg Trials Project

20th Century Espionage

In Memories Details of Commonwealth World War One and Two communal cemeteries and graveyards in Belguim and France

National Archives of Australia

The Tank Museum

Regimental Insignias

Medals


A-Z List of Ex-Military Service Organisations

A-Z List of Ex-Military Service


National Service and the Home Guard

Home Guard – history


Home Guard Pocket Manual



Medals and Decorations

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