Digital Archive

Since Eden Camp opened to the public as a museum in 1987, our visitors have been donating items to our archive which has continued to grow into a collection of national historical importance. In order to make this valuable resource open to the public and thanks to funding from the government’s #hereforculture Cultural Recovery Fund, we have begun the long process of making it available online. We’ve started with documents relating to the museum’s time as a prisoner of war camp but we’re adding new material every week on a wide variety of topics, so keep checking back for more.

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Popular Objects

Photograph - U-boat damaged by Coastal Command Hudson aircraft; 2632
Photograph - Chinese troops attack on the central front - 01/09/1943; 1/09/1943; 2633
Photograph - R.A.F. Beaufighter attacks oil barge S.W. of Pakokku - Burma; 2634
Photograph - French Moroccan signalmen atached to the 5th Army in Italy fixing wires to a telegraph pole; 2635
Photograph - U.S forces in action in Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands; 2636
Photograph - U.S. war material for the invasion of Europe - amphibious jeeps parked in rows; 2637
Photograph - Polish gunners with field artillery under camouflage netting; 2638
Photograph - British troops of the 8th Army passing through Sicilian town of Misterbianco - 1943; 2639
Official wartime photographs (3) - D-day landings - unidentified troop assault - tracers at night - with official photograph descriptions but no photographs attached; 2640
Photograph - the Gnome-le-Rhone aero-engine works before 12000 pound bomb attack by R.A.F. - 08/02/1944; 8/02/1944; 2642
Photographs (5) - aircraft Carrier "H.M.S. NaBob" damaged by torpedo - 22/08/1944 - one photograph with "H.M.S. Trumpeter" in background; 22/08/1944; 2651
Photographs (4) - concert party aboard "H.M.S. Fencer" (3) & "H.M.S. Pursuer" from "H.M.S. Fencer" (1); 2652
Photograph (colour) - Spitfire MK V ab910 - R.A.F. 457 squadron - airborne over Cranfield College of Aeronautics; 6350
Photograph (colour) - Spitfire MK IXX pm631 - in colours of S.E.A.C. no: 11 squadron - Cranfield College of Aeronautics; 6351
Photograph (colour) - Hurricane lf363 skeleton frame - Cranfield College of Aeronautics; 6352
Photograph (colour) - Spitfire MK IXX PM631 - in reconstruction stage - Cranfield College of Aeronautics; 6353
Photographs (4) - D.E.M.s gun layers on "S.S. benalder"; 6356
Photograph - Beverley base hospital - servicemen's orthopaedic Ward - Christmas 1942; 25/12/1942; 6426
Photograph - unknown graveyard - possibly Belsen concentration camp; 6433
Photograph - chapel at P.O.W. camp 83 - Old Malton; 6661
Photograph - "Turntable" fire escape fire engine - East Ham fire brigade - with original display text; 6719
Photograph - telephonists at Civil Defence control centre's telephone exchange; 6794
Photograph - firemen surveying bomb damage; 6803
Photograph - firemen climbing ladder into burning bomb damaged building; 6804

Useful Links:

How to Search the Eden Camp Digital Archive – Information on the different ways of searching the Eden Camp Digital Archive using the eHive platform.

Request Records of Deceased Service Personnel – Information from gov.uk on how to apply to the MOD for the records of deceased service personnel.

International Committee of the Red Cross – The place for information on requesting the records of WW2 prisoners of war.

Repatriated Landscapes – An excellent, up to date and well illustrated record of prisoner of war camps in the UK.

Kohima Museum – The only UK museum dedicated to the Burma Campaign.  Located in York, just 23 miles from Eden Camp.

If you would like to donate or loan any items to our archive for preservation and/or display, please get in touch with our Archivist, Summer to make an appointment. You can see what we no longer accept by clicking here.