POW and Evaders Database Work

[Jagan]

http://www.rafcommands.com/database/pows/index.php

What does this offer? - allows you to see the aircraft type and serial number, clicking the serial will take you to other possible details around the aircraft, CWGC (Till mid 1941) or forum posts. Clicking on the Camp name will take you to the Campwise listing..

Data ofcourse belongs to Ross. I just packaged it a different way.


The oldsite is still available at http://www.rafcommands.com/old-site/air-force-pows/

[wwrsimon]

That's very helpful and very useful Jagan, thank you. And thanks to Ross, of course!

Regards

Simon

[Resmoroh]

From the archives:-

753715 LAC J.O WESTON Met P.O.W Crete
Author: Marks (Guest)
Time Stamp:
15:40:06 14 June 2007
Post:
While browsing through P.O.W reports at Kew WO344/340/1 I came across the following report :-
753715 LAC John Oswald WESTON P.O.W 29/5/1941 Sternes Crete
Unit Meterological Section
Dob 4/1/1915 Estate Agent Enlisted August 1939

HTH
Peter Davies

[Jagan]

Hmm. Keep getting a blank page so the URL might have broken. Will investigate

[CZ_RAF]

Hi Jagan, that is great and useful idea thank you!
But as you have already mentioned, I am getting only blank page even if trying to find someone how is definitely of list from Ross.

Pavel

[Jagan]

Hmm for some reason, it is working from my home.. anyway made a couple of minor changes.. it should look like this





An example of the serial number search

http://www.rafcommands.com/database/...php?uniq=P4356 (Retrieves the AIR81, CWGC, and POW records - Forum posts if any)

[CZ_RAF]

Jagan thank you, now it works fine for me.

Pavel

[Franek Grabowski]

It is asking to tie with German interrogation reports and AIR 81 files!

[Jagan]

I suspect before we do anything that the Additional details in Ross's list needs to be fleshed out.

12527 records in total

2174 have dates
2231 have units
2152 have an aircraft serial associated with it.

All the three above are pretty much coordinated - that is the roughly 2150x records ahve dates, units and aircraft numbers.. so that leaves 10300 records that do not have any of the three.

0 have ranks
0 have firstnames/fullnames

I can put a google sheet out there if folks want to take a stab at it.

[Resmoroh]

Hello All,
I am quietly working my way through the AIR 81 (Prisoner) files for Jagan’s POW Update Project. V interesting!!!
I’ve got to mid-1941. Crete! One source says that 11,000 Allied PoWs were taken by the Germans in Crete. One of our LAC Met Assts was taken. He was not alone on Crete, but seems to be the only Met Asst PoW we know about. He also seems to be one of the very few non-aircrew PoWs we are aware of (via AIR 81). This can not be so?!
Now I am not trying to get somebody else to do my homework, but there must have been attempts, over the years, to reconstruct the Air shambles in Crete in mid-41? Is there a narrative somewhere?
Does anybody know if AM Sir George Beamish left any diaries/papers to posterity, and if so, can they be accessed?
Additionally, I don’t know (and am not clever enough with TNA) to discover if the ORBs for – wait for it! – 30, 33, 38, 45, 80, 112, 203, 230, 274, and 805FAA Sqns have been downloaded? Much of the ORBs for those Sqns at the time/place probably do not exist, or are lost in the mists of time/defeat/retreat? I’m only asking if somebody’s done it before to save me fumbling about in TNA.
The Met Units’ organisation during WW2 is particularly difficult to disembrangle, for although they were Formed Units their ORB action was rendered as part of the Station they were resident on at the time.
I would be grateful for any steers. The background is in http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peop...a4128815.shtml - which is well worth a read anyway!
TIA
Peter Davies