Boddam, Prisoner Of War Camp
Prisoner Of War Camp (First World War)
Site Name Boddam, Prisoner Of War Camp
Classification Prisoner Of War Camp (First World War)
Canmore ID 332715
Site Number NK14SW 175
NGR NK 125 420
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/332715
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Peterhead
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
A prisoner of war camp is recorded at Boddam, near Peterhead, in the 1919 'List of Places of Internment' in Britain, its colonies and dominions. German soldiers, other than officers and senior NCOs, could be put to work that did not directly further the prosecution of the war. The Boddam camp was a work camp, and it is likely that the men were employed either in the Stirling Quarry, on the hill above Boddam, or in the construction of the massive breakwaters of the Peterhead Harbour of Refuge, where much of the quarry's output went, and to which it was linked by a railway.
The precise location of the camp is not known.
Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) 8 October 2013.
Project (March 2013 - September 2013)
A project to characterise the quantity and quality of the Scottish resource of known surviving remains of the First World War. Carried out in partnership between Historic Scotland and RCAHMS.
