POW Photos WW2

my late father had a set of POW photos(he was army and captured near Tobruk)it seemed to me that they were for sending to familys ,most were formal pictures and varying in the number of people in them.Most of them appear to be a Scottish regiment and one is of a New year concert,I can scan and put them on iif anyones interested.

I have not come across a centralised resource for POW photographs.

However I have come across individual aircrew that managed to secure their POW I.D. cards etc. – including one 619 Squadron wireless operator, who obtained his ‘blue card’ c/w, photographs, fingerprints and the handwritten message – “I need a shower, but who told them?”

The items are now in the Archive at Newark Air Museum and they include the original 35mm, black and white Agfa negatives of the POW photographs!

Given the German predilection for taking photos I’d be surprised if POWs didn’t find themselves being snapped many, many times! Doubtless someone will know if there’s any records with photos available online but more interesting (to me anyway) are photos of recently captured airmen. There’s one in the most recent ‘Britain at War’ of a chap shot down during a rhubarb operation over France. I found myself wondering what must have been going through his mind at that moment with the terrible realisation dawning that he was no longer a free man!