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General => Armed Forces => Topic started by: elboy on Sunday 28 October 07 17:42 GMT (UK)

Title: Napoleonic prisoners in Scotland
Post by: elboy on Sunday 28 October 07 17:42 GMT (UK)

Can anyone point me in the right direction regarding finding a list of French prisoners of war in Scotland during the Napoleonic Wars?

Title: Re: Napoleonic prisoners in Scotland
Post by: bodger on Sunday 28 October 07 21:33 GMT (UK)

I worked installing some plant in Alexander Cowans paper mill in Penicuik,, there they made bank note paper for various banks, the rolls that created the "watermarks"in the paper were kept locked up in iron barred cells in the old part of the mill, i was told that the cells were used originally for holding French POWs from that war, maybe some of our Scottish members may have further information.    Bodger