Location
Bury Road, Botesdale, Suffolk
Description
Site Visits
May 2019
Material
DSLR Photos
UK Foreign Office Inspection Report
Bottesford is directly opposite the former PoW Camp Hospital 261 / USAAF General Hospital 65 and each site can see the other.
Unlike the former hospital site though this site contains the remains of the former PoW Camp in the form of a WWII military Water Tower. Although now discussed and in a dangerous condition it makes a striking feature in the landscape amongst weeds, bushes and trees and scrub land and has great views across a river valley to the former Camp 261 Redgrave Park Hospital
The scene would have been great for drone images that show both camps together, but on the day of my visit it was too wet and windy
Camera Images of the site of former PoW Camp 56 Botesdale
Extracts from UK Foreign Office Inspection Report from UK National Archives Kew:
FO 939-138 PoW Camp 56 Botesdale – Inspection Report
FO 1120/183 PoW Camp List 20Feb47 inc PoW Camp 56
Foreign Office Inspection Report 
Foreign Office Inspection Report 
Foreign Office Inspection Report 
Foreign Office Inspection Report 
Foreign Office Inspection Report 
Foreign Office Inspection Report 
Foreign Office File 1120/183 list of POW Camps in the UK as of 20Feb47 as held by the UK National Archives in March 2019
Repatriated Landscape 