The Depot for Prisoners of War at Norman Cross, Huntingdonshire. 1796 to 1816

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Transcribed from the 1913 Constable & Company Ltd edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

The Block House, Norman Cross Barracks, 1809, where French Prisoners of War were confined. Drawn by Captain George Lloyd, 2nd West York Militia, 1809. Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall

THE DEPOT FOR PRISONERS OF WAR AT NORMAN CROSS HUNTINGDONSHIRE. 1796 to 1816

BY THOMAS JAMES WALKER, M.D., F.R.C.S.

Fellow (Member of Council 1908–9) of the Royal Society of Medicine. Associate of the British Archæological Association. Past President of the Peterborough Natural History Antiquarian and Scientific Society.

“I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice.”

Shakespeare’s “Othello.”

LONDON CONSTABLE & COMPANY LTD 1913

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