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

Catalogue reference: FO 383/41

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This record is about the Germany: Prisoners, including: Treatment of British prisoners and conditions in camps,... 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 383/41

Date

1915

Description

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Treatment of British prisoners and conditions in camps, including:

  • Inspection of prisoners' camps in enemy countries.
  • Camps in Germany where British subjects are interned in Germany.
  • Angus Faulkner, in Rotterdam, report on his arrest and treatment in Germany.
  • Food for British prisoners in Germany.
  • Theodore Paproth Roessler, interned at Ruhleben: enquiry from his brother, F P Roessler of Wimbledon.
  • Visits to British prisoners' camps in Germany: various reports (in docket no. 49848).
  • Ill-treatment of British wounded at Landen.
  • Private G Gray, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, prisoner of war at Gustrow: enquiry from his sister, Ethel M Andrews of Sherborne, Dorset.
  • Parliamentary questions regarding treatment of prisoners.
  • Articles permitted to be supplied to prisoners of war.
  • Treatment of British prisoners at Gottingen.
  • John E Greaves, British vice-consul at Berdiansk: ill-treatment when detained in Germany.
  • Private Holmes, Royal Munster Fusiliers, prisoner at Sennelager: enquiry from his sister, Mrs J Keene, of Alfreton, [Derbyshire].
  • Treatment of British prisoners at Hanover:
  • Treatment of British prisoners in Germany: letter from Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, the Kaiser's son; letters and evidences on oath of ill-treatment of British prisoners in Germany (in docket no. 52324).
  • Colonel Baddeley, late British pro-consul at Bruges: report of his arrest and treatment when detained in Germany.
  • Prisoners' camps in Germany: supplementary report on Crefeld camp by US Consul, Cologne.
  • Treatment of British prisoners in hospitals.
  • Shooting of British prisoners-of-war by German troops: declarations by Johannes Martin, editor of Rotterdamsche Nieuwsblad, and W N J Van Ditmar, press correspondent of Rotterdam.
  • Treatment of British prisoners at Gustrow.
  • Lieut F A Sampson, detained at Burg: extracts from letters sent to his father, S A Samson of Kensington, describing his treatment as a prisoner of war.
  • Clothing for prisoners at Ruhleben: lists of men with their requirements (in docket no. 54084).
  • Ill-treatment of British wounded by Germans.
  • British prisoners made to work on farms.
  • Treatment of British prisoners at Süder-Zollhaus camp, Schleswig.
  • Conditions of British prisoners of war in camps, Wetzlar and Altengrabow (near Magdeburg).
  • Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany (in docket no. 54793).
  • Assistance to British prisoners in Bavaria and Baden: includes list of names (in docket no. 56587).
  • Purchase of food in Germany for British prisoners.
  • Outbreak of typhus in prisoners' camps in Germany.
  • Treatment of British prisoners of war by Germans: sworn statement by Peter Erler, German deserter.

Code 1218 File 1061 (papers 49333-59560).

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File 1061 (pp.49333-59560).

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Subjects
Topics
Clothing
Internment
International
Army
Europe and Russia
Disease
Food and drink
Nationality
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