The Online Memorial and Museum of Prisoners of War is entirely run by volunteers who offer their time and financial support to continue our work and to improve the tools and services that we offer to the public completely free of charge.
There is much to do. If you have benefitted from our work or would simply like to help us to honour prisoners of war, please consider supporting us.
Please consider supporting us in our work and helping us continue to improve our tools and records.
Get involved with the considerable work needed to process and clean newly released data from the National Archives and other sources.
Do you have information about a POW? Submit your details to us to include in the database.
Want to add a record? Please submit a POW suggestion.
Although you can search by surname, first name, POW number or any other field including any descriptive text included in the records the quickest way to a POW’s record is always to search by Service number,
We now have over 80,000 POWs recorded on this site. Until we can afford more sophisticated hosting, running queries on the prisoner database (particularly large ones such as all POWs or British Army) may require some patience.
Many POWs spent time in working parties and camps that were subordinate to full POW camps.
You can search our records below or view all working parties of which we are aware.
Some men spent extended periods working or being treated in a variety of medical facilities.
How to carry out research
NewsThe Online Memorial and Museum of Prisoners of War has, today, published a new comprehensive guide to the various sources of information which can help people carry out research into a Prisoner of War’s time in captivity,
A new role for our founder
NewsThe Trustees of the Online Memorial and Museum of Prisoners of War are pleased to announce that Philip Baker, who founded and for over 20 years developed this web resource, has been appointed as Project Advisor.
How to navigate the new version of our website
News, ResearchWelcome to our new website. In this version of our website, we’ve added some additional functionality. Understanding the records Note: the records tables are best viewed on a desktop of laptop device. For all record types (prisoners, camps, working parties, and medical facilities) we’ve added a number of structured data fields to standardise the records […]