Germany: Prisoners, including: Treatment of British prisoners and conditions in camps,...

FO 383/39

1915

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Treatment of British prisoners and conditions in camps, including:

• Treatment of British military prisoners in Germany: various individual accounts.
• Places where British subjects interned in Germany: request by HM Minister, Berne, for list.
• Treatment of interned merchant seamen in Germany.
• Conditions at Ruhleben: various accounts of conditions at camp.
• Treatment of British military prisoners at Magdeburg: letter from H C MacBryan of Box, Wiltshire, in respect of his son, John Crawford William MacBryan, Somerset Light Infantry.
• Prisoners camp at Altdamm.
• British soldiers in Germany: report of them being expected to wear uniform.
• Issue of pay to officers, prisoners of war, in Germany.
• Parcels for prisoners of war in Germany.
• Conditions at Ruhleben camp: account of conditions sent by prisoner Charles D Ellis to his father, A C Ellis of Finchley Road, London.
• Tobacco for prisoners of war.
• W B Davies, detained in Ruhleben: request for assistance to obtain new glasses and eye treatment; enquiry from his father, Rev W Davies of Denmark Hill, London.
• British colonials in Germany: case of Allan Grant Lockhead, British subject born in Canada, detained at Ruhleben.
• Alleged ill-treatment of British prisoners at Munsterlager near Hanover.
• Relief of prisoners of war.
• Smoking by British prisoners in Germany: prohibition.
• Work of US Embassy in Berlin in connection with British prisoners.
• Inspection of British prisoners by US Embassy, Berlin.
• Treatment of Hindu prisoners in Germany.
• Treatment of Mr Owen, first engineer of steamer Royal recently returned from Ruhleben, and others at Ruhleben: account from Mrs A Owen of Portmadoc.
• British military prisoners in Belgium.
• Conditions at Ruhleben: account from Stuart Lockhart of Liverpool, recently liberated from Ruhleben.
• Visits by Dr Rooseboom to hospitals and prisoners' camps in Germany.
• Treatment of General Bradley, retired British military officer interned at Schloss Celle, Hanover: letter from his wife, Alice Bradley, of Portman Square, London.
• Funds for military and civilian prisoners.
• Treatment of Indian prisoners of war in Germany.
• Treatment of British prisoners at Minden.
• British and Russian prisoners in camp at Ulm.

Code 1218 File 1061 (to paper 28724).

File 1061 (to pp. 28724).

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