Laghouat Prison Camp

This was a detention centre at Laghouat in Saharan Algeria, maintained during the Second World War by Vichy France and later by the French Committee of National Liberation.The camp was one of nine established by the French in the Sahara, primarily for dissidents, but from 1940 to 1942 it was used as an internment camp for British Empire servicemen under the name Camp des internés britanniques Laghouat (“British Internees Camp Laghouat”).

External links:

• Object tagged ‘laghouat’ a the Imperial War Museum