Balkans: Prisoners, including: Enquiries and concerns about British Hospital Units...

FO 383/126

1916

Balkans: Prisoners, including:

Enquiries and concerns about British Hospital Units in the Balkans, including:

• Telegram from Lady Paget to British Minister at Christiania (Oslo), Norway, asking him to thank Norwegian Government and Norwegian Red Cross for their assistance and welcome to Lady Paget's Hospital Unit.
• Luggage of Hospital Units.
• Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service reimburse British Minister at Berne, Switzerland, for monies advanced to Hospital Units returning from Serbia through Switzerland.
• Passage of Lady Paget's Ambulance Unit through Sweden en route from Serbia to Britain.
• Leslie E Gill, British orderly of a hospital unit, interned at Grossau, Austria: requests release.
• Sister Florence Clifton and Sister Frances Bambridge, attached to the Stobart Mission of the British Red Cross: enquiry about their welfare.
• F C Parsons, Administrator of the British Farmers' Hospital, Serbia: letter for him.
• Miss Ada F Parkinson, British subject, member of Madame Gronitch's hospital unit at Nish (Nis), Serbia, given permission to leave Bulgaria: enquiry after her welfare.
• Expenses of repatriation of Lady Paget's Hospital Unit.

List of Bulgarian prisoners interned in Britain: one at Stobs, near Hawick, Scotland, three at Knockaloe, Isle of Man, and nineteen at Alexandra Palace, London (names given in docket no.1141).

Relief and supplies for British prisoners, including:

• Funds for Lady Paget's Hospital at Uskub (Skopje), Serbia.
• Private John W Hubbard, soldier in the 2nd Norfolk Regiment, prisoner in Bulgaria: enquiry by the Reverend W M C McAllister, Rector of Hempstead and Lessingham, Norfolk.
• Relief for captured British medical staff at Vrnjatchka Banja (Vrnjacka Banja), Serbia.
• Clothing and relief funds for British prisoners in Bulgaria.
• Correspondence and parcels for British prisoners in Bulgaria and Serbia.
• Marquis of Lincolnshire, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire, thanks Lord Robert Cecil for Foreign Office's actions on behalf of Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry prisoners at Sofia, Bulgaria.
• Lieutenant W E Gilliland, 10th Battalion Norfolk Regiment, prisoner in Bulgaria: remittance sent to him.
• Miss Grace Saunders, resident in Sofia, Bulgaria: remittance sent to her.
• Postmaster-General's announcement concerning addresses for letters, parcels and money orders for prisoners in Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria: press cutting from 'The Morning Post' of 18 February 1916.
• British Relief Fund at Sofia, Bulgaria.
• Supplies from Bucharest, Romania, and Berne, Switzerland, for prisoners in Bulgaria.
• Private Herbert Coop, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, prisoner at Tatar Baizardjik (Pazardzhik), Bulgaria: non-delivery to him of correspondence and parcels.
• Bulgarian frontier closed; any further despatch from Romania of comforts for prisoners impossible at moment.

Code 1219 Files 1127 (papers 64857-end)-1395 (to paper 155391).

Files 1127 (pp.64857-end)-1395 (to pp.155391).

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