Volunteers at The National Archives (TNA) in Kew have completed a six-year project to catalogue more than 200,000 records of Second World War prisoners of war (POWs).
The volunteers sorted and catalogued the 417 boxes in the War Office file series WO 416, which primarily contains records of British and Allied POWs and civilian internees captured by German forces during the Second World War.
The records have been organised into numbered and ordered envelopes and indexed on Discovery, TNA’s online catalogue (discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk).
