Belgium: Prisoners, including: Miss Mary V Apps, a nurse in Uccle, Brussels: enquiry...

FO 383/13

1915

Belgium: Prisoners, including:

Miss Mary V Apps, a nurse in Uccle, Brussels: enquiry from her sister, Miss Ada V Apps of Sussex, regarding her non-return to England.

Repatriation of British women and children from Belgium; includes lists of individuals.

Requests for assistance, etc, regarding possible return of British subjects:

• Patrick Meagher, British subject, studying in Belgium to become an ordained priest: request for assistance, for him to be enabled to leave Belgium for Ireland.
• Elizabeth Theresa O'Longan, British subject, a member of French order of nuns in Tournai: request from her father, Paul O'Longan of Forest Gate. London.
• Miss Mary Edith Ochs, in Belgium: request from her mother, Mrs Edith Ochs of South Croydon.
• Miss Bertha Connolly, child aged 11 years, at Zulte.

Mrs A M Dickson, International Women's Relief Committee: arrangements for advance to cover expenses of certain women and children departed from Brussels in August 1915.

Felix, Marguerite and Auguste Vanontryne, children in Roubaix in the care of Miss Charlotte Stone: request for assistance for their return, received from Miss Stone's mother, Elizabeth Kelly of Shepherds Bush, London.

Repatriation of British subjects from French occupied territory: cases of Mrs Angus Faulkner, Miss Catherine Louisa Hebbert, and Mr and Mrs W A Young; includes note verbale from German Government.

Return of British subject from Bruges: enquiry from Mr E R J Reed of Ashford, Kent, in respect of his mother-in-law.

Repatriation of 39 children in convent at Bruges: refusal by German authorities.

Miss Katherine Louisa Hebbert, British subject in Lille: enquiry from her sister, Miss H Gordon Hebbert of West Kensington.

Miss Mary Dunne, British subject in Mons, where a governess: enquiry from her mother, Mrs J Dunne, regarding her possible return to Ireland.

McLachlan family in Lille: enquiry from James McLachlan of West Hampstead.

International Women's Relief Committee representatives in Belgium: appointment of Mrs Clarke, American lady in Brussels, in succession to Mrs Dickson; question of arrangements for future appointments.

International Women's Relief Committee: reported dissolution.

Miss Ellen Hawe (Sister Kieran), British subject residing at convent at Saventhum, near Brussels: enquiry from Sister Superior of the Ursuline Convent, Dartford, Kent.

Miss Elizabeth Theresa O'Longan, British subject, a member of French order of nuns in Tournai: enquiry from her father, Paul O'Longan, regarding her non-return to England.

Expenses of repatriation of British subjects from Belgium: question of recovery of expenditure; expenses of Thomas T Topping, member of US Legation staff, Brussels, who accompanied party to Rotterdam; UK Foreign Secretary's expression of thanks for his assistance.

Repatriation of British subjects: enquiries from French ambassador, London, about how this was effected.

British children in convents at Bruges; includes lists of names.

Arrival at Tilbury of two destitute jockeys from Belgium.

Women and children forcibly detained in Belgium and France: possible intervention by The Vatican.

Mrs MacDonald, detained in Lille Citadel.

Repatriation of British refugees from Belgium: arrangements with Mr Reyntiens, representative of Local Government Board at Rotterdam.

Free passages afforded on board British ss Copenhagen to British refugees arrived at Rotterdam from Belgium.

Mrs Delphine Delmotte, in Canada, wife of Arthur Joseph Delmotte serving in the Belgian Army: request that her children at Oudenarde, Belgium, may be brought to Canada.

Mrs E H Wendt in Brussels: request from her husband that she be informed of his safe arrival in the UK.

British subjects in Lille; includes newspaper (in French), Bulletin Des Réfugiés Du Nord, 22 December 1915.

Four Egyptian students at Agricultural College, Gembleux: enquiry from the Egyptian Educational Mission in England regarding assistance for their possible repatriation.

Code 1204 Files 6976 (papers 96395-end)-10146.

Files 6976 (pp.96395-end)-10146.

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