Commando Research
This section, and its sub pages shown under ‘ Content ‘ in the side Navigation panel, gives the reader an insight into how best to research the content within the Commando Veterans Archive, and also provides some useful information about external avenues for your further research. It additionally provides detail on how you can add to our Archive any information or photos that you consider may be relevant.
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Prisoner of War Photos
The National Archives have high resolution images from the German Record Cards of British Prisoners of War (WO 416 files) that they have almost completed digitising and are searchable for free on their website. They still have to add surnames commencing N-Z.
The regrettable thing is that what you will find is only a transcript of the card and no photo. To get the photo you will have to pay. Basically they charge £40 + vat for 20 photos with further restrictions such as resolution below 72 dpi and watermarking to prevent misuse. To date I have added pages on around 750 commando prisoners of war with many more coming. As such we will not be able to add these photos to those pages in our Archive. We ourselves make no charge for our content.
‘Prisoner Escape Reports’
Reports from the War Office are in the National Archives WO208 series [view online....]