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PoW Camp Summary WW II

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The following summary lists all the PoW Camps currently known to have been located in Scotland.

The intention is to find a location and status for each, map them, and create a more detailed page with any information found.

The same location reported with more than one Camp Number means two separate camps at the given location, or that the number was later reissued to another camp.

Each line may have one or two links. The first is for the site, and will open a marker at the camp's location on the map at the foot of the page. The second will jump to our page relating to the camp, if we have one.

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Camp Number - Name - Location SeSco Page Notes
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NT24096452 :) link='2 Woodhouselee Camp, Milton Bridge, Midlothian. NT24096452' :) Map jump Destroyed. The camp was located south east of Glencorse Barracks, and was a German working camp. The site of the barracks was used as a Napoleonic PoW camp. cf #780
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NO26554645 :) link='3 Balhary Camp, Perthshire. NO26554645' :) Map jump Destroyed. cf #63
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NS11159766 :) link='6 Glenbranter Camp, Argyll. NS11159766' :) Map jump Glenbranter Camp Detroyed. Opened in the grounds of Glenbranter House (once the home of Sir Harry Lauder) in the 1930s as a Ministry of Labour Instructional Camp. In 1935 there was a walkout, followed by another in 1936, both over conditions. Became an Italian PoW Camp during World War II. In 1942 became HMS Pasco, Combined Ops, landing craft signals school providing training for minor landing craft signalmen. The house was demolished in the 1960s. There are no remains.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NT23547338 :) link='12 Donaldson`s Hospital, West Coates, Edinburgh, Midlothian. NT23547338' :) Map jump cf #15
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NS32031924 :) link='14 Doonfoot (Bun) Camp, Greenan Rd, Doonfoot, Ayr, Ayrshire. NS32031924' :) Map jump Base Camp. Destroyed. cf #112 Scene of Britain's largest escape attempt, December 1944. Around 97 Italian PoWs tunnelled out of the camp, but were quickly recaptured.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NT23547338 :) link='15 Donaldson`s School, West Coates, Edinburgh, Midlothian. NT23547338' :) Map jump The school buildings were sold in 2007. News reports tell of German PoW artefacts having been found during earlier repairs, and of ex PoWs visiting the school quite frequently. cf #12
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NT45307826 :) link='16 Gosford Camp, Aberlady, near Longniddry, East Lothian - Base camp. NT45307826' :) Map jump Three Nissen huts extant on private land.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NS85273335 :) link='19 Happenden Camp, Douglas, Lanarkshire - Base camp. NS85273335' :) Map jump Destroyed.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NS85273335 :) link='19 Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire. NS85273335' :) Map jump Destroyed.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NN76851990 :) link='21 Cultybraggan Camp, Comrie, Perthshire - Base camp. NN76851990' :) Map jump Cultybraggan Camp cf #242
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NS54102114 :) link='22 Pennylands Camp, Cummnock, Ayrshire - Base camp. NS54102114' :) Map jump Destroyed. Recorded by RCAHMS as Auchinleck.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NR82979063 :) link='24 Knapdale, Lochgilphead, Argyll. Cairnbaan/Letterdail, Argyll & Bute. NR82979063' :) Map jump Destroyed.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm ND47809813 :) link='34 Warebank Camp, Burray, Orkney. ND47809813' :) Map jump Some remains left. Camp information from The Orcadian
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm HY48810061 :) link='60 Lamb Holm Camp, Orkney. HY48810061' :) Map jump Chapel built by Italian prisoners survives. Camp and church information from The Orcadian RCAHMS entry, Camp 60
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NS957382 :) link='62 The Moor Camp, Thankerton, Lanarkshire. NS957382' :) Map jump Base Camp. Destroyed- area now forested.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NO26554645 :) link='63 Balhary East Camp, Alyth, Perthshire. NO26554645' :) Map jump Destroyed. (cf #3)
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NS79308190 :) link='64 Castle Rankine Camp, Denny, Stirlingshire. NS79308190' :) Map jump Destroyed, only one ablutions hut remains.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NN81806570 :) link='66 Calvine Camp, Blair Atholl, Perthshire. NN81806570' :) Map jump
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NJ25654492 :) link='67 Sandyhillock Camp, Craigellachie, Banffshire. NJ25654492' :) Map jump Some huts remain in use as poultry farm.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NY12887910 :) link='68 Halmuir Farm Camp, Lockerbie, Dumfrieshire. NY12887910' :) Map jump Some huts remained in 2006. Hut converted to camp chapel by Ukrainian PoWs remains. Interior decorated in authentic Ukrainian style.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NO7050074691 :) link='75 Northhill Camp, Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire. NO7050074691' :) Map jump Destroyed.. Now called North Hill Park housing estate
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NO31081155 :) link='77 Aunsmuir Camp, Ladybank, Fife (cf Balbirnie, Springfield). NO31081155' :) Map jump Destroyed, now a caravan site.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NO2900002001 :) link='77 Balbirnie, Fife. Proposed: NO2900002001' :) Map jump Now grounds of Balbirnie House Hotel, Markinch.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NO34441297 :) link='77 Springfield, Fife. Proposed: NO34441297' :) Map jump Now farmland next to Stratheden Hospital, Cupar.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NT21986921 :) link='105 Inchdrewer House, Colinton Camp, Midlothian. NT21986921' :) Map jump Now a residential care home.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NH51775541 :) link='109 Brahan Castle (Estate), Dingwall, Ross-shire. NH51775541' :) Map jump Was situated about four miles south west of Dingwall, north of Inverness on the east coast. The castle was built by the Mackenzies in the 17th century, but was demolished in 1953. Originally built as a Training Camp for the Canadian Army, its timber huts housed first Italian, then German PoWs. A few buildings are reported to remain, but in poor condition. A nearby beech tree is said to have an Italian name followed by the letters PoW carved into it. Permission to visit the site must be requested from the owner, Brahan Estate, near Dingwall. Source
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NJ97484490 :) link='110 Stuartfield Camp, Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire. NJ97484490' :) Map jump Used for displaced persons postwar. Some huts remain.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NJ68451555 :) link='111 Deer Park Camp, Monymusk, Aberdeenshire. NJ68451555' :) Map jump Destroyed.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NS32031924 :) link='112 Doonfoot (Bun) Camp, near Ayr, Ayrshire. NS32031924' :) Map jump Destroyed. cf #14 Notable for December 1944, when 97 Italians escaped through a tunnel, but all were quickly recaptured.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NS503258 :) link='112 Kingencleugh Camp, Mauchline, Ayrshire. NS503258' :) Map jump Work Camp.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NX41546558 :) link='113 Holm Park Camp, Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire. NX41546558' :) Map jump Destroyed.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NT7051429518 :) link='120 Sunlaws Camp, Kelso, Roxburghshire. NT7051429518' :) Map jump Work Camp. Now Roxburghe Hotel, Kelso.
Former German war prisoner visits Kelso captivity site Retrieved July 31, 2013.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NT11466508 :) link='123 Kirknewton, W Lothian. NT11466508' :) Map jump Kirknewton
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm ND23855450 :) link='165 Watten Camp, Wick, Caithness - base camp. ND23855450' :) Map jump Watten Camp Destroyed.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NY01858730 :) link='182 Barony Camp, Parkgate, Dumfries - base camp. NY01858730' :) Map jump Destroyed. cf #298

On researching the Battle for Nancy, Lorraine region of France, September 5 to 15, 1944, 3rd Armed Brigade. Captured German soldiers of the 553 Division 1120 Grenadier Regiment were transported and housed at Camp 182, vetted then moved on to other working camps throughout Scotland, where many German PoWs decided to remain working as agricultural workers, miners etc. Later, in 1944, the 1120 Grenadier Regiment became a Volksregiment, made up of injured servicemen, fighting cooks, bakers etc, in an attempt to stop the Allied advance into Germany.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NS43306240 :) link='188 Johnstone Castle Camp, Johnstone, Renfrewshire - base camp. NS43306240' :) Map jump Lost under modern housing development. Camp comprised of corrugated iron huts initially used for Polish soldiers. Possibly not PoW camp until end of war. See the Formative Years in Johnstone, near Clydebank, during War story on the BBC's People's War site.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NS25828577 :) link='230 Stuckenduff Camp, Shandon, Dumbarton - base camp. NS25828577' :) Map jump Stuckenduff Camp Destroyed.

Please note this refers to the camp only, not Duff House itself, a surviving grand Georgian estate house cared for by Historic Environment Scotland.

We've been told the house was briefly known as PoW Camp 5, housing mostly Naval PoWs. Attacked by a German Heinkel bomber on 22 July 1940, 6 PoWs and 2 British soldiers were killed and many more injured. After the attack the PoWs were quickly moved to English PoW Camp 2, Knutsford, Cheshire, before being transferred to Canada.

PoWs were held inside Duff House itself, including the East Wing which was demolished after the war due to the bomb damage. Following removal of the PoWs after the attack, various different regiments were stationed in the house for training purposes, including the Norwegian Brigade during 1941/2, and various Polish units from 1945 until August 1946.\\\

The golf course is and was completely separate and had no connection with the PoW camp.

⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NO01902094 :) link='233 Findo Gask Camp, Dunning, Perthshire. NO01902094' :) Map jump RAF Findo Gask Destroyed. Former wartime airfield.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NT86295575 :) link='236 Ninewells Camp, Chirnside, Berwickshire. NT86295575' :) Map jump
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NN77592107 :) link='242 Cowden Camp, Comrie, Perthshire. NN77592107' :) Map jump Destroyed. Now Braco Rd housing estate. cf #21
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NT52607400 :) link='243 Amisfield Park Camp, Haddington, East Lothian. NT52607400' :) Map jump Destroyed, now Haddington Golf Course.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NO27202427 :) link='274 Errol Airfield Camp, Errol, Perthshire. NO27202427' :) Map jump Former wartime airfield. Now an industrial estate.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NO59924959 :) link='275/275a Kinnell Camp, Friockheim, Arbroath, Angus. NO59924959' :) Map jump
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NX86179965 :) link='293 Carronbridge Camp, Carronbridge, Dumfries. NX86179965' :) Map jump Sewage plant remains.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NY01858730 :) link='298 Barony Camp, Parkgate, Dumfries). NY01858730' :) Map jump Destroyed. cf #182
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NS80869575 :) link='559 Abbeycraig Park, Causeway Head, Stirling. NS80869575' :) Map jump Now a private residence.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NX07256072 :) link='571 ST2, Stranraer, Wigtownshire. NX07256072' :) Map jump Possibly Ladies Walk Camp, London Rd. Destroyed. cf Sheuchan School, Stranraer.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NS26178517 :) link='582 Blairvadoch Camp, Rhu, Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire. NS26178517' :) Map jump Some remains left.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NN53150015 :) link='593 Rob Roy Camp, Aberfoyle. NN53150015' :) Map jump Now Rob Roy Motel
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NN71390142 :) link='596 East Deanston, Doune. NN71390142' :) Map jump Actually Deanston House, Deanston. Now a nursing home. Italian graffiti could still be seen carved into trees in the grounds in the 1980s.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NY27806985 :) link='612 Honduras Camp, Kirkpatrick Fleming, Dumfries. NY27806985' :) Map jump Destroyed.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NY10158175 :) link='617 Dryffeholme Camp, Lockerbie, Dumfrieshire. NY10158175' :) Map jump Base Camp in grounds of Halleath House. Sewage works survive.
618 Inveraray
625 Patterton Hut bases remain. cf #660
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NX66835422 :) link='640 Mansecroft Camp, Twynholm, Dumfries & Galloway. NX66835422' :) Map jump Destroyed, now housing estate. Camp was used postwar for Polish refugees. cf Isle House Stables, Kirkcudbright. English Heritage lists Camp #640 as 'St. Andrew's Church Hall, Kirkcudbright', but no record of that building ever being used to billet PoWs.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NH80369023 :) link='641 Earls Cross House Camp, Dornoch, Sutherland. NH80369023' :) Map jump Working Camp.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NS53905830 :) link='660 Patterton Camp, Thornliebank, Renfrewshire. NS53905830' :) Map jump Hut bases apparently survive there in 2007. See the responses this PoW Forum Enquiry

Listed as World War II Prisoner-of-war camp 660, though this refers to a German Working Company rather than the camp. The camp housed both Italian and German prisoners. Following the war the camp was occupied by the Polish Resettlement Corps until 1949, the buildings remaining intact until at least 1960. Surviving remains include up to 71 hut bases, many badly damaged by tree growth and one or two other unidentified structures. Camp occupied by squatters from time to time until the buildings were removed in 1960. cf #625
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NS53705820 :) link='660 Deaconsbank, E Renfrewshire. NS53705820' :) Map jump Destroyed.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NX07956607 :) link='661 Leffnol Camp, Cairnryan, Dumfries & Galloway NX07956607' :) Map jump Hut bases remain.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NT20496452 :) link='780 Milton Bridge Camp, Midlothian. NT20496452' :) Map jump Destroyed. cf #2
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NT34006840 :) link='1013 Deer Park Camp, Dalkeith, Midlothian - (cf #1024). NT34006840' :) Map jump Destroyed. Now Dalkeith Country Park.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NT34006840 :) link='1024 Deer Park Camp, Dalkeith, Midlothian - (cf #1013). NT34006840' :) Map jump Destroyed. Now Dalkeith Country Park.
Scottish Camps not listed in the Original Source linked below
Hampden Park Football Stadium, Glasgow. Scottish Command holding cage. Extant.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NJ913501 :) link='Brucklay, Aberdeenshire. NJ913501' :) Map jump Hut bases remain.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NN20656070 :) link='Kinlochleven, Argyll & Bute. NN20656070' :) Map jump Destroyed.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NO055255 :) link='Methven Airfield/Loanleven. Perth & Kinross. NO055255' :) Map jump Former wartime satellite airfield. Some buildings remain.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NO48921088 :) link='Lathockar House,Fife. NO48921088' :) Map jump
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NO40423717 :) link='Tealing Airfield Angus. NO40423717' :) Map jump PoW accommodation. Destroyed.
Kirkton camp, former RAF station, possibly SLG. The Northern Times, Mr D Stewart, 7 Moray Drive, Balloch, Inverness. April 10, 2008.
Sir – Further to your previous correspondence regarding the RAF camp at Kirkton Farm, after the RAF left Kirkton the camp lay empty for a short period and then became a prisoner of war camp for Italian POWs.

After that, German POWs occupied the camp and many of them worked on farms in the area. Several of the German POWs remained in the area after the war, in fact the entire Golspie football team half back line were former POWs, namely Arnold, Bruno and Gustav.

Arnold and Bruno eventually returned home but Gustav married a Golspie lass, Chrissie Macdonald. Sadly Chrissie and Gustav are deceased but their children live in Golspie.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NO54521245 :) link='Bonnytown, Dunino, Fife. NO54521245' :) Map jump Italian working camp. Destroyed.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NR82979063 :) link='Cairnbaan/Letterdail, Argyll & Bute. NR82979063' :) Map jump Identified as #24 Knapedale. Destroyed.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NT19639777 :) link='Capeldrae, Westfield, Ballingry, Fife. NT19639777' :) Map jump Possibly former Bevin Boy camp.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NT16379277 :) link='Leucahtsbeath Cottages, Cowdenbeath. NT16379277' :) Map jump Possibly former Bevin Boy camp. Destroyed.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NT25856808 :) link='Mortonhall, Edinburgh. NT25856808' :) Map jump Displaced persons camp postwar. Hut bases remain.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NT28607270 :) link='Duddingston House, Edinburgh. NT28607270' :) Map jump Destroyed.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NT49920943 :) link='Stobs Camp, Hawick, Borders. NT49920943' :) Map jump Stobs Camp Destroyed.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NT83603970 :) link='Leet Water, Coldstream, Borders. NT83603970' :) Map jump Destroyed, now a golf course.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm HY53801162 :) link='Rockworks Camp, Rerwick Head, Orkney. HY53801162' :) Map jump Destroyed.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NJ69066331 :) link='Duff House, Banff. NJ69066331' :) Map jump Destroyed, now Duff House Royal Golf Course.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NX6742049428 :) link='Isles House Stables, Kircudbright, Dumfries & Galloway NX6742049428' :) Map jump Housed low-risk Italian internees in early part of war. cf #640
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NH79978951 :) link='Golf Rd, Dornoch NH79978951' :) Map jump Destroyed. Possibly associated with Camp #641 Earl's Cross
Sheuchan School, Stranraer School closed 1938, ARP stores during the war, then PoW transit camp. Destroyed. cf #571
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NX06915829 :) link='Culreoch Camp, Stranraer. NX06915829' :) Map jump Housed Italians postwar. Former AA battery astride A71. RCAHMS entry, Culreoch AA battery
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NJ95650339 :) link='Tullos Hill, Aberdeen. NJ95650339' :) Map jump Destroyed. Former Peterseat AA Battery, used for German PoWs postwar. RCAHMS entry, Tullos Hill
Peterculter Camp, Coronation Road, Aberdeen. Destroyed. No trace found.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NJ93250900 :) link=' Hayton Camp, Hayton Road, Aberdeen. NJ93250900' :) Map jump Destroyed. RCAHMS entry, Hayton Road
Rickarton Camp, near Stonehaven, Kincardineshire. Demolished and now houses.
⚠ (:gma-point ⚠ (:llVgm NS216078 :) link=' Maidens/Kirkoswald camp. NS216078' :) Map jump Now Redgates caravan park, Kirkoswald Rd, Maidens.

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