Blargies prison camp

Blargies prison camp (officially known as the No. 1 Military Prison) was a British military prison in Blargies, France, during the First World War. By 1916 it housed around 300 prisoners in 25 tents. Conditions in the camp were harsh, partly by design to avoid soldiers viewing imprisonment as an attractive alternative to service on the front line. The refusal by some prisoners to work led to confrontations between guards and prisoners and two men were sentenced to death for separate mutinies at the camp in 1916.

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