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Cork native digging own grave in prisoner of war camp as Nagasaki atomic bomb detonated: Witness to rain of ruin

The Irish Times 09 Aug 2025
Aidan MacCarthy, a doctor from Cork, who had been a prisoner of the Japanese since the fall of Singapore in 1942, anticipated that day would be his last ... Just days beforehand, the Japanese had made the prisoners of war (POWs) dig their graves.
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Site of first purpose-built prisoner of war camp saved by Historic England funding

The Guardian 12 Jun 2025
One was the construction of what was reputedly the first purpose-built prisoner of war camp, sited on the Great ...
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Napoleonic prisoner of war camp buried under field bought from farmer

London Evening Standard 12 Jun 2025
Norman Cross, the world’s first purpose-built prisoner of war camp, is located near Peterborough in Cambridgeshire ... .
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Cambridgeshire Napoleonic prisoner of war camp to open to public

BBC News 12 Jun 2025
People will soon be able to visit what is believed to be the world's first purpose-built prisoner of war camp dating from the Napoleonic Wars between Britain and France.
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