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 - Royal Marine commandos firing machine gun with tracers at night during training course; 2631
Photographs (2) - British P.O.W.s at Stalag XXID (Posen) - Poland - 1941; 1/01/1941; 9752
Photograph (colour) - Monte Cassino Veterans Association gathering at Cassino memorial - 45th anniversary - 1989; 1/01/1989; 1979
Copy of photograph - Coventry bomb site - mobile catering unit ; 9031
Photograph - U-boat damaged by Coastal Command Hudson aircraft; 2632
Copy of photograph - Air Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding ; 9032
Press cutting - "Last Line of Defence" - Home Guard; 1990
Photographs (8) - British P.O.W.s at Stalag XXIB (Schubin) & Stalag 21D (Posen) - Poland -1941; 1/01/1941; 9753
Photograph - Chinese troops attack on the central front - 01/09/1943; 1/09/1943; 2633
Photograph - formation of German Heinkel III bombers; 9033
Photograph - "H.M.S. Orchis" - pennant no: K76 - flower class corvette; 1991
Photograph - R.A.F. Beaufighter attacks oil barge S.W. of Pakokku - Burma; 2634
Photographs (8) - British P.O.W.s at Stalag XXID (Posen) (truppenfeld) - Poland - 1942; 1/01/1942; 9754
Photograph - French Moroccan signalmen atached to the 5th Army in Italy fixing wires to a telegraph pole; 2635
Copy of photograph - Luftwaffe - Junkers JU87 Stuka dive bombers in formation - original lost; 9022
Portrait photographs (2) - Norman Nitchell - Monte Cassino Veterans Association; 1918
Copy of photograph - General Rommel with captured Commander of the British 51st Division - general Fortune - at Valery caux - original lost; 9024
Photograph - American "DUKWs" unloading Liberty ships off Sicily - 1943; 2625
Copy of photograph - Hitler Standing in front of the Eiffel tower after the fall of Paris - original lost; 9026
Photograph - aerial view of Allied bomb damage to Seine bridges; 2626
Photograph (colour) - Royal Marine commando memorial - Spean bridge; 9729
Photograph - R.A.F. Beaufighters attack enemy shipping off Greece - 01/09/1943; 1/09/1943; 2627
Copy of photograph - London burning - taken from the dome of St. Paul's cathedral - 29/12/1940 ; 29/12/1940; 9027
Photograph - "H.M.S. Jamaica" - Fiji class cruiser - in heavy seas; 2628

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.