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the application of POW 2, after which it would go with the
rest of the Camp' s mail through the ordinary civilian Post
Office channels.

Prisoner' s letters were treated by the Post Office in the
same manner as letters received from the British forces and
handstamped with the ordinary daters of the Post Office.
Because of the authorization of Free postage the mail was not
franked by Jamaican stamps; it should be added that mail from
the Camp's staff also went Free, in their capacity as members
of the Army .
To revert to the composition of the prisoners it would appear
that there were the following categories of prisoner, namely:-

1 . Male civilian enemy aliens in Jamaica on the outbreak of
war and possibly similar persons sent from other islands .

2. Male civilians from captured shipping who were not in their
countries armed forces or reservists.

3 . Possibly women , who fell into the same categories as the
men referred to in 1 or 2 above . Before both World Wars it
was not uncommon for the wives of senior offices of a ship
to accompany their husbands whilst many cruise ships carried
female staff such as nurses etc .

4. Male members of enemy countries forces or reversists .