More than 80,000 records of Second World War prisoners of war (POWs) have been published on Ancestry (ancestry.co.uk).
The family history website’s new collection, ‘UK and Allied Countries, World War II Liberated Prisoner of War Questionnaires, 1945–1946’, contains 83,560 records in total.
The questionnaires are held at The National Archives in Kew, in record series WO 344. They were distributed to surviving POWs by the War Office Directorate of Military Intelligence following the end of the war, and have not previously been published online.
Each man was asked to
