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Prisoner of War, Internment Camps and Gibra.lta.r Camp , Jamaica.

WIC 3 . Handstamped covers .
The third group of covers were those created once the Camp Orderly Room received the
various hanstamp s , all of which were struck in purple ink .
EKD : LKD :

Cover from Mrs. M. Uleth, Internme nt/Camp/Kingston Jamaica/B . W. I . endorsed on the
flap ; the obve rse bears Written in German, prisoner - mail together with Trans -
Atlantic - Air Mail and the address all these endorsements being in ink . The cover
bears POW 8 handstamp struck in purpl e ink, probably one of the first handstamps to be
received by the Camp . The un- franked cover to Germany also bears D/5 Postal Censorship
handstamp also struck in purple ink .

Before leaving discussion of these two camps there is set out below a translation
from a Report by a Swiss Supervisor . The Report covers conditions in Surinam and
Curacao, but only the comments on Jamaica are reproduced below.

REPORT

On the situation of Germans in the British West Indies {Jamaica}.

The Germans in Jamaica .
Except for a small number of Germans formerly resident in Jamaica , there are many
German seamen (especially men passed on to the British by Dutch authorities on Curacao}
and many hundreds of German men , women and children (including those civilians passed
on to the British by the French in French Cameroons} who have been brought to Jamaica
and interned .

In the men' s camp there are over 700 Germans and some 250 Italian civilian internees :
in the women' s camp , 85 German women and 46 children .