Germany: Prisoners, including: Mr P J E Thomas, 'coloured' British subject from Sierra...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Mr P J E Thomas, 'coloured' British subject from Sierra Leone, interned at Ruhleben: request for financial assistance; claim to be related to West African chief; arrangements for remittance.

Reported riot in German camp at Leigh, Lancashire, during which German subject, Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Schmidt, was shot: investigation into circumstances; report that he was shot while attempting escape.

Reported shooting of four German subjects: brothers Dittmar from Stuttgart and brothers Scherer from Zweibrucken, shot as spies following arrest in London; trial of Ernest and Adolf Dittmar, interned at Furnes.

Released German prisoner killed in action: Franz Koethner, released from Gibraltar on parole and killed while serving as a reserve officer in the Prussian Fusilier Guards operating against the Russian forces.

Compulsory employment of German civilian prisoners in Canada.

Treatment of enemy subjects interned in Canada: reports by US consular officials at Orillia and Kingston; includes biographical reports on individual Turkish, Serbian, German and Austro-Hungarian subjects (in docket no. 127215).

Payment for work by civilian prisoners.

Remuneration to interned civilians for voluntary work.

Alleged compulsory employment of German civilians in Canada.

Payment of prisoners of war in Rhodesia.

Miss Lucy Norton, aged 82 years, in Germany: request for relief; question of proof of British nationality.

Notices to shareholders of Rubel Bronze Ltd, in voluntary liquidation: question of sending notices to shareholders resident in Germany informing them of company reconstruction.

Visit to German prisoners' camps in UK: wish for G von Koch, distinguished member of the Swedish Parliament, to see conditions in camps.

Letter for German Emperor: request from Mrs S W Morgan of Upper Norwood for a letter to be forwarded asking for release of her son, a prisoner in Döberitz.

Mrs F H Wilms, living in Berlin in order to be near her son interned in Ruhleben: application for remittance.

William Isensee, naturalised US citizen: reported intention to proceed to Rotterdam and continue his journey to Germany as a German subject.

Sergeant William Clifton, RMLI [Royal Marine Light Infantry], confined as prisoner of war in Mecklenburg: notification to German Government of his promotion to rank of Royal Marine Gunner; question of whether promotion entitles him to privileges of officer's treatment.

Heymann and Alexander, insurance company of Bradford, Yorkshire: wish to communicate with agents in Germany.

Register of British property and banking accounts in Germany.

Rent of office and private apartment of Norman C Haag, former British Vice Consul at Bremerhaven.

Albert McClusky, 2nd Manchester Regiment, reported as deceased: request from his widow, Mrs Eva McCluskey of Winsford, for assistance in obtaining death certificate or documentary proof of death for insurance purposes; question of whether report of death was accurate or whether he was still interned at Göttingen.

M M A Coy, War Enquiries Bureau of London: letter for the British Consular Agent at Terneuzen.

Mr Harry Whiting's war enquiry bureau ('the MMA Company War Enquiries Bureau').

Nubian Archaeological Survey: question of custody of negatives sent by the Egyptian Survey Department to Berlin to be turned into collotypes.

Employment of British prisoners of war in Germany.

British prisoner at Döberitz employed as a farm labourer's assistant:

Mr H Kersasp (Hurmasji Kersasp Dadachanji), Indian student detained in Germany: enquiries about his whereabouts and welfare.

Donation to fund for British prisoners in Germany: £20 from London County Asylum, Cane Hill, Coulsdon, Surrey.

James Lawson Lamb, formerly resident at Hamburg, now interned as civil prisoner of war at Ruhleben: enquiry from his brother, George Lamb of Newcastle-on-Tyne, regarding relief payments for his wife (Mrs Mary Helen Lamb, née Findlay) and family in England; arrangements for payment of dividends to Mrs Lamb.

Albert H Michelson, late US Consul, Hanover: notification of his death; recognition for his services in interests of British prisoners in Germany.

Sale of Rynd estate in County Fermanagh: arrangements to obtain signature to the agreement by one of the vendors, Miss Meliora Laura Rynd, British subject residing in Berlin.

Colonel Charles W Hemans, residing in Bad Nauheim: arrangements for pension payments.

Alexander William Matthews, British subject interned at Ruhleben: request for documents, including birth certificate and regulations as to trading with the enemy.

Gustav Mahnke, British prisoner interned at Ruhleben: application and arrangements for a remittance of £100.

Mr M Sechoff, interned at Ruhleben: claim for compensation for damage and losses to his property in South Africa during anti-German demonstrations.

Code 1218 File 85404-92769.

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