German prisoners at Dorchester Camp, 1917
Lantern slide, World War One, POWs (1914-1918), 1917.
Dorchester camp in Dorset was established in August 1914 when 1,000 prisoners of war (POWs) arrived from France. By the end of the war there were around 4,500 prisoners interned there. Most of the German POWs in this photograph were captured during the Battle of the Somme (1916).
From a box of 60 lantern slides.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1978-11-157-6-40
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1978-11-157-6-40
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