Records of the Prisoners of War, Civilian Internees and Casulaties Department relating to both Second World War prisoners and civilian internees held in British colonial territories and to British subjects held as prisoners of war or civilian internees.
Records of the department are in CO 980 with registers to correspondence in CO 1012. A nominal index of individuals interned or held as prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Malaya, featuring mostly British, Dominion and Colonial citizens, but also some nationals of allied states, is in CO 1070.