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MHG24899 - PoW Camp - Brahan

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Camp (disused).
OS 1:10000 map (1992)

A Prisoner-of-War camp is visible at this location on Royal Air Force aerial photographs taken in 1946 (106G/Scot/UK 114: 3076, 3077).
Information from RCAHMS (KM) 15 March 2001.

A Second World War Prisoner of War camp (no. 108 Working Camp) was built on the estate of Brahan. It comprised a guard camp and a fenced prison camp with recreation field. The land was according to Brahan Estate leased to the Ministry of Works from 1944 to 1957. The camp held Italian, German and other axis nationalities. The prisoners where delivered to local farms to help provide additional manpower.

Following the end of the Second World War the former PoW camp was repurposed as a Displaced Persons Camp and mostly held Ukrainians who because they had fought on the axis side could not return to the Ukraine which was then part of the Soviet Union, for fear of imprisonment or death. The UK government accommodated these former PoWs in old camps across the UK. The men were put to work in local farms and industries.

After which the camp was used for storing agricultural materials and equipment as well housing families and children for the potato harvest, until 1957 when the site was returned to Brahan Estate. Two concrete memorials were constructed at the entrance in 1949, one of which still survives (see NH55NW 172.01).

The remains of the camp visible on current vertical aerial photography comprise at least three buildings, a number of concrete hut bases and the road/tracks within the camp.
Information from HES 22 April 2022

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Grid reference	Centred NH 5177 5539 (369m by 298m) <Null>
Map sheet	NH55NW
Geographical Area	ROSS AND CROMARTY
Civil Parish	URRAY

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