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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 - shopkeeper in war-time outside "International Store" - margarine on display; 1812
Portrait photographs (2) - Norman Nitchell - Monte Cassino Veterans Association; 1918
Copies of photographs (2) - D.E.M.S. ships (showing armament) in dock - with "H.M.S. Armeria" - flower class corvette; 1963
Photograph (colour) - Monte Cassino Veterans Association gathering at Cassino memorial - 45th anniversary - 1989; 1/01/1989; 1979
Photograph - "H.M.S. Orchis" - pennant no: K76 - flower class corvette; 1991
Photographs (4) & letter - Eden Camp when used by displaced persons - circa 1948 or 1949 - Ukrainian men and woman - warden and managers daughter - model castle built by German POWs ; 1/01/1948; 1993
Photograph - the British war cabinet.- 08/11/1939; 8/11/1939; 2065
Photographs (5) - A.F.S. mobile kitchen - donated by the citizens of Quelph - Ontario - Canada- with typescript account; 2227
Photographs (7) & Post Card (1) - Winifred Percival Entertaining Italian P.O.W.s 1945-1947 & Italian Chapel - Lamb Holm - Orkney; 1/01/1945; 2356
Photographs (8) - R.A.F. Lancaster bomber dropping "A.B.L." lifeboat by parachute - 10/12/1945 - (photocopies in hut 9 air sea rescue display); 10/12/1945; 2368
Photographs (2) - R.A.F. high speed air-sea rescue launches nos: 145 & 166 - 08/04/1942 - (photocopies in hut 9 air sea rescue display); 8/04/1942; 2367
Photographs (6) - life in East Ham London circa 1945 - with typescript descriptions; 1/01/1945; 2373
Photograph (colour) - toy dog on wheels - made by Italian P.O.W. at Eden Camp; 2394
1947 Calendar with photograph - "H.M.S. Orestes" - pennant no: j277 - 1947; 1/01/1947; 2519
Photograph of plaque - 11 bomber squadron - R.A.F. - May 1937 - approved by King George VI & passed by the College of Arms; 1/05/1937; 2588
Photograph - Scarborough lifeboat - "R.N.L.B. Amelia" - towing coble; 2601
Photograph - unidentified British battleship; 2603
Photograph - sinking of German submarine depot ship at Kilboten Norway - last operation of 846 squadron R.N.A.S.; 2604
Photograph - Boston aircraft flying over Frosinone - Italy; 2606
Photograph - surrender of Italian fleet in Malta - 10/09/1943; 10/09/1943; 2609
Photograph - aerial view of scuttled French fleet at Toulon harbour - 16/12/1942; 16/12/1942; 2610
Photograph - fighter pilots examine flying bomb shot down by R.A.F. - 1944; 1/01/1944; 2611
Photograph - aerial view of German repairs to Eder dam after R.A.F. attack - 17/07/1943; 17/07/1943; 2612
Photograph - Boston aircraft of the Lorraine French squadron attack transformer station in Brittany - 26/08/1943; 26/08/1943; 2613

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.