before you agree on this:

The Geneva Conventions recognize only two categories of persons on the battlefield: combatants and non-combatants.
Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949, covers combatants and non-combatants (the latter being members of the armed forces who should not bear arms - ties in with GCs I and II).

Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949, covers civilians on the battlefield and in occupied territory.

To them, you can add the participants, combatant and non-combatant, who engage in armed conflicts not of an international nature under Common Article 3 of all four GCs.

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And, yup, I heard that monkey story ... in which one of my great-gg....ggrandfathers played the main role - and suffered a horrible fate. But then he was a Marine officer and a French-Canadian.

Regards

Mike