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The purpose of this project is to gather profiles of these men who are on Geni and to share interesting tales and anecdotes about individuals. Please collaborate... INDIA More than 9,000 POW were held in the following camps: Camps and Cemeteries Ahmednagar : Cemetery – Fort Ahmednagar Cemetery Amritsar Camp for "irreconcilables" Abbottabad Bellary : Cemetery – Bellary Miltary Cemete...
The purpose of this project is to gather profiles of these men who are on Geni and to share interesting tales and anecdotes about individuals. Please collaborate... CEYLON Approximately 5,126 POW were held in the following camps: Camps Diyatalawa (Main camp) Mount Lavina (Convalescent camp) Ragama (Camp for dissidents and irreconcilables) Urugasmanhandiya (Camp for prisoners on par...
Aim and Scope== To gather profiles of the men who were POWs in Bermuda and who have profiles on GENi, and to share interesting tales and anecdotes about individuals. Please collaborate and contribute... POW's Bermuda During the Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902), Bermuda received and housed a total of approximately 4,619 Boer prisoners of war, of whom 850 were under the age of 19. The youngest was si...
Anglo Boere Ooorlog/Boer War (1899-1902) Killed in Action in South Africa Aim of this Project is to link as many profiles on Geni as well as add those not on Geni and try and build them into our world tree In the last few years of the 19th Century, British Imperialism and Afrikaner Nationalism came into conflict with each other. This resulted in the Anglo Boer War of 1899-1902. The ca...
The purpose of this project is to gather profiles of these men who are on Geni and to share interesting tales and anecdotes about individuals. Please collaborate... Saint Helena Prisoner’s Weekly rations: 5 days a week 1 lb. fresh meat 2 days a weeks 1 lb. preserved meat Every day 1.25 lbs bread, vegetables, condiments, sugar and coffee Camps Approximately 5,866 POW were held in...
Please add the profiles of people who died as a Prisoner of War. If a known cause of death, please add the person to a project for that condition also (ie, of disease or of wounds).==* See: Died in War by Disease From: * Wikipedia - Prisoner-of-war camp * Wikipedia - Prisoner of War A prisoner of war (POW, PoW, PW, P/W, WP, PsW, enemy prisoner of war (EPW) or "missing-captured") is a person, wh...
Please add the profiles of individuals of who died during the Vietnam War, (aka. Second Indochina War). It is estimated that somewhere between 1.3 million to 4.2 million people were killed during the war.== Sources ==* Vietnam War US Military Casualties - archives.gov * The Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Hỏa Lò Prison was a prison in Hanoi originally used by the French colonists in Indochina for political prisoners, and later by North Vietnam for U.S. prisoners of war during the Vietnam War. During this later period, it was known to American POWs as the "Hanoi Hilton". Following Operation Homecoming, the prison was used to incarcerate Vietnamese dissidents and other political prisoners, includi...
Please do not add profiles to this project. This is an “umbrella" project. Add the profile(s) to one of the following project/categories listed. ==* Civilian War Casualties * Died as Prisoner of War (POW) * Killed by Disease * Killed in Action (KIA) * Died from War Wounds (KBW, DOW, DWRIA)* Missing in Action (MIA) (presumed deceased)* Shot at Dawn ===If you do not find a project or category tha...
This is the sub-project where all profiles of South Africans who were Prisoners of War during World War II can be added. All South African Army, Navy and Air Force soldiers (and civilians?) who were Prisoners of War during WWII can be added to this project. About 334,000 men volunteered for full-time service in the South African Army during the war (including some 211,000 whites, 77,000 blac...
Volksrust Link to photo's on eGGSA People in this camp 5000 People who died in this camp 751 Volksrust camp was beautifully situated, in the shadow of Majuba mountain, on the border of Natal, where the Boers had defeated the British some twenty years before, reminding them of ‘the most glorious episode in their history’, as Dr Kendal Franks noted. But Elizabeth Neethling described the p...
The purpose of this project is to gather profiles of these men, women and children who have profiles on Geni and to share interesting tales and anecdotes about individuals. Please collaborate...==PORTUGAL==The British advance during the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) forced some 1443 Boers, consisted largely of refugee families including 173 children. as well as foreigners and 'Cape rebels' (ie Bri...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the Geni profiles of those who served in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces during World War I and were taken as Prisoners of War (POW).
Please add those who are or have been US Navy Nurses.==* Please be sure to include information about the person’s time in the military in the About section of the profile. Source: Wikipedia - United States navy Nurse Corps The United States Navy Nurse Corps was officially established by Congress in 1908; however, unofficially, women had been working as nurses aboard Navy ships and in Navy hospi...
==Overview==North Africa was probably one of the fronts most neglected both by Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War. The conflict began with a few skirmishes along the border in June 1940 and ended in May 1943 with the surrender of the Axis troops in Tunisia. But this theatre of war certainly was not of secondary importance given the number of soldiers involved in the fighting, the ...
PORTAL (master project) for South African involvement during World War II.==== This is the start of a project to pull together and list all Projects ( not profiles ) related to South Africans during World War II. ===At the moment there aren't many projects for South African involvement during WWII. Here is the start of getting some sub-projects going where we can add profiles of SA soldiers who...
Background === Berga an der Elster , a subdivision of Buchenwald, was a Nazi slave labor camp that held and tortured 350 American Prisoners of War (POW) after their capture at the Battle of the Bulge on December 16, 1944. While thousands of POWs were captured on that ill-fated day, the Nazis held a subset of 350 American soldiers at Berga beginning February 13, 1945. The American POWs were iden...
The 447th was stationed at the Rattlesden Airfield in England during World War Two. This project is dedicated to all who sacrificed during and after the war to keep the world free from all tyrants. Built for the Eighth Air Force in 1942, Rattlesden had three concrete runways, 50 hardstandings and two dispersed T2 hangars. Intended to be a twin-engine B-26 bomber base, it was originally a satell...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the Geni profiles of those Canadians who were captured as German POWs.
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors who were residents of the Trutzhain Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Trutzhain area of the current town of Schwalmstadt , Germany.==History of Trutzhain==During the Second World War, Ziegenhain was home to a prisoner of war camp, Stalag IX-A (one of the French prisoners ther...