PoW Camp 64 Cowden

Unlike it’s near VERY NEAR Neighbour Cultybraggan Camp this closed just after the end of the war. Subsequently the site was completely cleared and is now Braco Road housing estate with no trace of the former camp.

Location

Langside Drive, Dalginross, Perthshire

Description

Site Visits

August 2019

Material

DSLR Photos
UK Foreign Office Inspection Report

This former PoW Site was close to that of Cultybraggan PoW Camp and has an interlinked history with one camp acting as a satellite camp to the other. Post war this site like many PoW sites was closed and cleared.

The location visited matches that given in the English Heritage 2003 PoW Camp Report that contains some significant errors and admissions. However, the same location is also given by Canmore Scotland that of the Langside Drive, Dalginross. This site is now a housing estate with no trace of the former camp.

Camera Images of the site of former PoW Camp 64 Cowden

Extracts from UK Foreign Office Inspection Report from UK National Archives Kew:

FO 939/145 PoW Camp 64 Cowden – Inspection Reports

  • PoW Camp 64 Cowden Inspection Report Foreign Office Inspection Report held in the UK National Archives at Kew File Referance FO 939/145
  • PoW Camp 64 Cowden Inspection Report Foreign Office Inspection Report held in the UK National Archives at Kew File Referance FO 939/145
  • PoW Camp 64 Cowden Inspection Report Foreign Office Inspection Report held in the UK National Archives at Kew File Referance FO 939/145
  • PoW Camp 64 Cowden Inspection Report Foreign Office Inspection Report held in the UK National Archives at Kew File Referance FO 939/145
  • PoW Camp 64 Cowden Inspection Report Foreign Office Inspection Report held in the UK National Archives at Kew File Referance FO 939/145
  • PoW Camp 64 Cowden Inspection Report Foreign Office Inspection Report held in the UK National Archives at Kew File Referance FO 939/145