Germany: Prisoners, including: Mr and Mrs Paul Rolle, Germans interned in South Africa:...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Mr and Mrs Paul Rolle, Germans interned in South Africa: petition for relief from HM Government for using his hotel as a hospital.

Disposal of German subjects from German South West Africa.

Mrs Yvonne Fatscher, Swiss-born married to an Alsatian against whom divorce proceedings taking place: question of treatment as an 'alien enemy'.

Return of British subjects from Belgium and Germany.

British refugees from Germany.

Mrs Daisy Malony-Uhse, widow of a German subject, formerly married to an Englishman: request for return to British nationality and to UK for permanent residence.

Internment of civil prisoners in Switzerland.

Applications from individuals desiring release of prisoners of war: request for intervention of the Pope in certain cases.

Joseph Ettershank, of Leith: request for compensation for his illegal internment in Germany.

Private Harry Lacey Nelson (or H L Melson), 1st Battalion The Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment, prisoner of war at Göttingen: divorce proceedings and question of custody of his children.

George Millington Herrmann, Lieutenant of the German Landwehr Cavalry, detained at Holyport as a civil prisoner: question of treatment as an officer and receipt of pay according to rank.

Capt J H C Coulston, wounded British prisoner of war in Germany: question of his repatriation following recovery from his wounds.

Mrs Grace Simmonds, wife of British subject detained at Ruhleben: question of her inability to pay insurance policies following her husband's detention; request for assistance.

Merchant seaman prisoners, including:

• British merchant sailors released on undertaking to take no further participation in the war: includes lists (some in German) of names of crews of Bowes Castle, Strathroy, and Cornish City (in docket no. 62883).
• Seamen released on parole: capture of British steamer Rio Iguassu by German cruiser Karlsruhe.
• British merchant sailors released on undertaking to take no further participation in the war: includes lists (in German) of names of crews of Farn, Glanton, Highland Hope, Hurstdale, Indian Prince, Indrani, Maple Branch, and Pruth (in docket no. 85396).
• Crews of merchant vessels: proposed exchange of crew members under 17 years of age.
• Release of British seamen on parole: copies of statements from Andrew Purvis, late First Mate of Bowes Castle; and W G Liley, late First Engineer of Cornish City.
• Parole given by seamen in Germany: includes lists (in German) of names of crews of Bellevue, Cervantes, Condor, La Correntina, Lynrowan, Niceto de Larrinaga, North Wales, Rio Iguassu, and the French merchant vessel Union (in docket no. 108538).
• Possible release of seaman aged over 55 years: enquiry from Peter Best Every, interned at Ruhleben.
• Exchange of merchant seamen prisoners: list of 29 merchant seamen and fishermen prisoners under 17 years of age (in docket no. 117411).
• Release on parole of British merchant seamen: includes list showing disposal of crews of ships captured by German cruisers (jn docket no. 119810).
• Parole given by captured British seamen: copy of statement by W J Baker, First Mate of ss Cornish City.
• Claim by German seamen interned at Bermuda.
• Johannes Wieting, aged 61 years, invalid German sea captain interned at Handforth: question of repatriation due to illness.
• British merchant sailors released on parole: includes lists (in German) of names of crew of Vandyck (in docket no. 147295).
• Exchange of merchant seamen under 17 years of age: German proposal for exchange.
• Exchange of invalid seamen: Admiralty views.
• Parliamentary questions regarding merchant seamen situation.
• Parole given by members of crew of British merchant ships: includes lists (in German) of names of crews of Tamar, Hemisphere, Coleby, and Chasehill (in docket no. 157306).
• Exchange of seamen (fishermen) required for fishing industry: resolution passed by National Sea Fisheries Protection Association.
• British merchant seamen released on parole: reports that men from Vandyck were not interned as prisoners; also those of Chasehill, Coleby, Hemisphere, and Tamar.
• Exchange of British and German fishermen: Board of Trade opinion; includes printed lists of merchant seamen and fishermen detained as prisoners of war in Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey, 21 September 1915 (in docket no. 171828).
• Merchant seamen at Ruhleben: information reporting conditions from Walter A Gladwin of Hastings, released civilian prisoner, sent via The Imperial Merchant Service Guild.
• Proposed exchange of British and German seamen under 17 and over 55 years of age, excluding ships' officers.
• Return of exchanged civilians from Germany.
• Exchange of invalid civilians.
• Aged and invalid merchant seamen at Ruhleben: appeal for their release from The Imperial Merchant Service Guild.
• Crew of ss Gifford at Ruhleben: includes list of names (in docket no. 200501).
• Release of British and German merchant seamen: information to self-governing dominions informing of agreement and requesting numbers of beneficiaries.
• Exchange of merchant seamen: instructions to Government of India to put into force provisions of agreement.

Mrs Gertrude Maude Schlesinger (née Gertrude Cheeseman), British-born, German subject by marriage to Oscar Schlesinger: request to return to UK with three sons following husband's death, to re-assume British nationality.

Code 1218 File 60492-62885.

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