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Belgium: Prisoners, including: Mr Graves C Swan, British subject in Brussels: enquiry...
Catalogue reference: FO 383/11
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This record is about the Belgium: Prisoners, including: Mr Graves C Swan, British subject in Brussels: enquiry... dating from 1915 in the series Foreign Office: Prisoners of War and Aliens Department: General Correspondence from.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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FO 383/11
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Date (When the record was created)
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1915
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Description (What the record is about)
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Belgium: Prisoners, including:
Mr Graves C Swan, British subject in Brussels: enquiry from his son regarding his whereabouts; possibility of his registration in an alternative name of Gehot.
Relief for British subjects in Belgium: destitute subjects; includes lists of individuals receiving assistance.
Alexander Moriarty, British subject resident in Ghent: enquiries regarding reasons for him remaining in Brussels; question of remittances being sent to him from UK; reports of him being taken prisoner and detained at Ruhleben.
Mitchell Chapman, British subject in Brussels: request for relief money to be sent to him; enquiries regarding reasons for his continued residence in Brussels.
Accounts of British Charitable Fund in Brussels.
Remittance payments:
- Remittances for chaplains: Reverend H S T Gahan at Brussels; Reverend D K Moore at Lille; Reverend H Fishe at Croix-Nord.
- Frederick Spencer Stanhope, in Brussels.
- Mr and Mrs John Charles Harman, of Bruges.
Distressed British subjects at Antwerp: Mr Richards, and Mrs Robert Holmes Hamilton (née Emily Clare Badham).
Miss Bertha Bauer at Liege: payment of annuity.
Mr Whitlock, US representative in Brussels: HM Government's appreciation for assistance rendered by him to British subjects.
Miss Winifred Annie Wall, confined in hospital in Brussels, suffering from typhoid fever.
Sir John Molesworth Staples, confined in an asylum in Belgium and described as a 'homicidal maniac': request for release; arrangements for transport, question of transfer to Holland or Great Britain, and for remittances; correspondence with his brother Robert Ponsonby Staples, charged with his estate, and the Office of Registrar in Lunacy, Four Courts, Dublin.
Code 1204 Files 661-3812.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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Files 661-3812.
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Open Document, Open Description
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