british red cross

[roseway20]

hi i have been informed by the British red cross that messages sent from pow camps to London during the war were kept until after the war then those copy's that the red cross held were destroyed, would any one have any idea where to search for example kew. any ideas would help. thanks

[km1971]

Here is the National Archive's research guide to WW2 POWs - http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/britishpowsecondworldwar.htm

Surviving information would tend towards the example given in the RH pane rather than personal messages I would think.

The ICRC are also digitising summary cards in a project due to finish in 2014. Let us hope they reduce the pre-digitization charge of c£70 for a lookup.

Ken

[roseway20]

thanks ken, i have been on to the international red cross who then put me on to the red cross message tracing service they are the ones that informed me that there copy's were sent back to the relevant military authorities and then there copy's were destroyed, so its the military side I'm trying to find ,i have a copy of a message my late father sent whilst he was pow via the camp leader but wold like to see all the message . cheers Andy