Mons Star to the Royal Irish Regiment by Mary Anne Maher and Larry Scallan which researches soldiers mostly from Kilkenny, ...

During the first world war (1914-1918) thousands of African men enlisted to fight for France and Britain were captured and held as prisoners in Germany. Their stories and songs were recorded and ...

The Yedi Kule castle, also known by its Greek name Eptapyrgio ("Seven Towers") was a prison where communist sympathizers were tortured and executed during Greece's 1946-49 Civil War and immediately ...

Local officials say another series of unmarked graves — this one containing 14 individuals — has been dug up in a park in the ...

In 1834, a 22-year-old Yoruba man who would come to be known as Manuel Vidau was captured as a prisoner of war and sold to slave traders in Lagos, today the largest city in Nigeria. A Spanish ship ...

Sgt. Howard Hasselkus of Elmore died in a Japanese POW camp in 1942. His remains were identified in 2024 and he will be ...

A northern Ohio man who died as a prisoner of war while fighting in WWII is finally being laid to rest in his hometown this ...

Hasselkus will be buried in his hometown of Elmore in August 2025. In late 1941, Hasselkus was serving with the 192nd Tank ...

On July 27th 1929, many of the world’s powers signed an agreement in Geneva that dictated the treatment of enemy soldiers captured during wartime. The Geneva Convention was seen as a revolution in ...

Sister Jessie Tomlins Between 1916 and 1919 more than 500 AANS nurses served in British hospitals in India, where their patients included hundreds of Turkish prisoners of war and wounded British ...