Description:These are Royal Defence Corps Guards for the PoW Camp and have differing cap badges. The Corps was comprised of men unfit for front-line duties due to age or infirmity and they were used to defend bridges, ports, Prisoner of War Camps or any other area deemed at risk within the Home Nations. A stripe on the forearm of a soldier's uniform denoted that he had been wounded in action. The three stripes on the one soldier's forearms shows he was lucky to return home. The Royal Defence Corps was used overseas.
The accommodation for these men was at "D" Lines adjacent to the PoW Camp. They would have stood guard in the watch towers and accompanied the prisoners if they went off Camp on working parties. There is a mixture of cap badges among the soldiers and as the Corps was not formed until 1916 perhaps they have not yet been issued with a badge, or they were assisting at the PoW Camp temporarily.