Belgium: Prisoners, including: Payment of taxes on property in Belgium. Mrs Charlotte...

Belgium: Prisoners, including:

Payment of taxes on property in Belgium.

Mrs Charlotte Annie Holgate, New Zealand nurse, staying in London: wish to proceed to Belgium to nurse the Belgian poor.

Precautions against possible German spies.

Emile Kokia, Belgian soldier: death in Haslar Naval Hospital, Portsmouth.

Miss Mabel Florence Weston, in Brussels: enquiry from her sister, Miss Lilian S Weston of Hammersmith.

Dr Henri S Béland, former Belgian Postmaster-General: detention in Belgium; enquiry from Empire Parliamentary Association; investigations into evidence of proof for his medical qualifications in order that he may be released.

Three Tibetan xylographs of the India Office Library, left in Brussels: question of their recovery.

Thomas and Felix Jeffes, Consul and Vice-Consul at Brussels: enquiries regarding their departure from Belgium.

Edward Alchin, a British volunteer in the Belgian Army: death in Belgian hospital; question of registration of death.

Correspondence for Belgium: arrangements for forwarding of letters via Holland; correspondence concerning Mr Godar of Cannon Street, London.

Metropolitan Police investigations into Belgians in England following allegations of swindling: cases of Charles Procés and Alphonse Caluwaert.

Journey of Belgian metallurgical workers from Holland to France.

Romanowe family: request from Sergie A Romanowe of Dover, Russian married to an Englishwoman, for assistance to bring his three children to the UK from Bruges.

British officers and soldiers who died in Red Cross hospitals in France or are wounded prisoners: includes lists of individuals.

Henry MacCullen, an inmate of hospital for mental diseases at Ghent: possibility of him being allowed to leave.

Nuns in a convent at Tournai: means of getting them to England.

Mr F Losseau: claim for missing property.

Mrs Scott, widow of Bertie C Scott, British subject formerly of Bruges and Brussels: jewellery of Mrs Scott pawned in Brussels.

Colonel Dulier, in Brussels: enquiry from his daughter, Mrs Irene Ashcroft of Northweald, Essex, regarding the sending of remittances.

British subjects in Belgium: completion of enquiry forms.

Mrs Kate Dalgety, wife of Colonel Reginald W Dalgety, in Bruges: notification of her death at 'Spermatie' convent, Bruges.

Arthur Denys, British subject in Brussels: request for authorisation for remittance of money.

Miss May Little, Red Cross nurse in Brussels: request for authorisation for remittance of money; question of possible return to Dublin.

Ralph Rodolph Hymmen, detained in prisoners of war camp, Handforth, Cheshire: request for release as a Belgian national, rather than German.

Clothing: request by Swedish Consul in London, for permission to send clothing for children in Belgium.

Internment of enemy aliens in UK.

Miss Frances Mary Irwin, described as 'person of unsound mind', in a Belgian institute: request for information about welfare and whereabouts.

Miss A Leigh White, residing in West Kensington having left Brussels at start of war: request for assistance to proceed to Barcelona to join her half-sister.

Telegrams for Women's International Relief Committee: arrangements.

Exhuming and interment of three British soldiers near Antwerp; surnames Adams, Wforse and Beard (or Geard).

Mr F C Lancaster, of Skipton: request for assistance in obtaining an insurance policy left by him in Brussels.

Miss Jessie Palmer, of Bedford Park, Chiswick: request for assistance in obtaining property left in Brussels.

Mr H Dale Long: enquiry from US Minister, Brussels, whether he is still employed at Foreign Office, and if so if he could remit funds to his mother in Brussels.

Mr G Bigwood, British subject arrested in Brussels following alleged confession of relations with spies.

Ellis Edward Bigwood, British subject, civil prisoner of war in Germany: enquiry from his wife, Mrs L Bigwood-Schumann; possibility of release due to his age and health.

Dr Edward Dumont, Belgian subject resident in the Belgian Congo: request for assistance for a document to be obtained from his mother in Brussels.

Mrs Alice Emily Page, wife of William Humphrey Page, residing in Bruges: request by solicitors in Brighton for assistance to transmit a letter informing her of a bequest.

Mrs Allan Saunders, widow of Lt Col A E A Saunders, formerly West India Regiment: question of payment of army pension in Brussels.

Miss Ellen McDougall, at outbreak of war residing in Convent St.Amand, Belgium: request by solicitors in Dublin for assistance in tracing her whereabouts, as a beneficiary in the will of her brother, John McDonnell.

Code 1204 Files 12692-111928.

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