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

Catalogue reference: FO 383/45

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FO 383/45
Date
1915
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Germany: Prisoners, including:

Treatment of British prisoners and conditions in camps, including:

  • Red Cross delegates meeting at Stockholm.
  • Prisoners' camp at Ingolstadt.
  • Alleged shooting of British prisoners at Limburg.
  • International Committee for Wounded and War Prisoners, Maastricht.
  • British naval prisoners at Doberitz.
  • Reports upon prisoners' camps in Germany: arrangements for their communication.
  • Employment of British prisoners in Germany.
  • Treatment of British prisoners in Germany: alleged differentiation against Canadians.
  • Private H Whitling, West Riding Regiment, prisoner at Döberitz: information from German government regarding his welfare.
  • Treatment of British prisoners at Stendal.
  • Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: Munich and Ingolstadt; inspection report by US officials (in docket no. 178444).
  • Cholera: reported outbreak at Munster.
  • Officers' camp at Halle: request for thorough inspection visit by US authorities.
  • Transfer of British prisoners to other camps.
  • Lieut Hubert Pelham-Burn, Gordon Highlanders, interned at Mainz: information from him regarding his treatment.
  • Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: officers' camp at Burg; inspection report by US officials (in docket no. 182234).
  • Feeding of British prisoners in Germany.
  • Grimsby fishermen, prisoners of war in Germany: treatment; report by William Savory, of Grimsby, captured from trawler Seti, repatriated to UK.
  • Prisoners' camp at Wittenburg.
  • Visits of inspection to prisoners' camps in Germany: authorisation for purchase of car by US authorities.
  • Prisoner of war camp at Dyrotz.
  • Limburg military detention camp: report by Sir Robert Younger, Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War.
  • British officers at Beeskow, Güstrin and Wülzburg: transfer to other camps.
  • Wittenburg: conditions in camp and in the lazaret; report by Dr Karl Ohnesorg, Surgeon, US Navy.
  • Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: Blankenburg; inspection report by US officials (in docket no. 187207).
  • Treatment of prisoners of war in Germany: report by Mr P de Makeeff, Russian mining engineer of Ekaterinburg.
  • Wittenburg and Altdamm prisoners' camps: reports made by Dr B W Caldwell, Director, American Red Cross Sanitary Commission (in docket no. 188610).
  • Ill-treatment of British prisoners: report on violations of The Hague and Geneva Conventions reported by British medical officers repatriated from Germany.
  • Dyrotz camp: conditions prevailing at camp.
  • Limburg camp: treatment of prisoners.
  • Private W H Read, 13th Kensington Regiment, prisoner of war at Giessen: enquiry from his father, Arthur J Read of Walworth, London.
  • Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: Quedlinburg; inspection report by US officials (in docket no. 190982).
  • Officer prisoners' camp at Gutersloh: reports made by Dr B W Caldwell, Director, American Red Cross Sanitary Commission (in docket no. 190983).
  • Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: Spreenhagen; inspection report by US officials (in docket no. 190987).
  • Irish Brigade: alleged formation by Irish non-commissioned officer prisoners in Berlin; includes extract from The Gaelic American, New York, November 1915, with picture of officers and original signatures of individuals (in docket no. 190990).
  • British prisoners in Giessen: enquiry from Mrs M Henderson of Bexhill-on-Sea regarding the non-delivery of supplies she had sent.
  • Employment of British prisoners in ammunition factories.
  • Parcels in bulk for prisoners in Germany.
  • Capt W Knight Bruce, prisoner at Torgan: enquiry from his aunt, Mrs Sotheran of Lewes, regarding supplies sent to him.
  • Parcels of food for British prisoners: enquiry from J G Carruthers of Belfast.
  • Decision of German War Office that food can only be sent addressed to individual prisoners.
  • Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: Merseburg; inspection report by US officials (in docket no. 196667).
  • Treatment of prisoners at Limburg.
  • Tobacco for British prisoners.
  • Condition of British prisoners at Döberitz: communication from Charles Sharpe, New Barnet, regarding his son, C H Sharpe, RNVR.
  • Prisoners' camp at Wittenburg: enquiry whether commandant had changed.
  • Capt George Elliot, Royal Irish Regiment, imprisoned at Burg: enquiry into conditions of punishment; also two other officers, Capt B W Allistone and Lieut C F L Templer.
  • Prisoners'camps at Münster, Westphalia: unfavourable reports by Dr B W Caldwell, Director, American Red Cross Sanitary Commission (in docket no. 198174).
  • Visits to prisoner camps: German government decision to permit visits without advance notification, subject to reciprocity.
  • Prisoner camps in Germany: request for Foreign Office interview by Dr Ella Scarlett-Synge of London, to discuss her camp visits.
  • Treatment of prisoners at Sennelager.
  • British prisoners at Stendal.
  • Communications addressed by prisoners to US ambassador, Berlin.
  • Treatment of prisoners at Torgan.
  • Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: 'working' camps at Königsmoor and Hakenmoor bei Ströhen; inspection report by US officials (in docket no. 202037).
  • 'Bureau de Secours aux prisonniers de guerre': short report by president of British section, Berne.

Code 1218 File 1061 (papers 173269-end).

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
File 1061 (pp.173269-end).
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Public Record(s)
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Open Document, Open Description
Subjects
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Welfare
Internment
International
Manufacturing
Labour
Army
Europe and Russia
Weapons
Disease
Food and drink
Navy
Fishing
Armed Forces (General Administration)
Mining and quarrying
Operations, battles and campaigns
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2617287/

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