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Germany: Prisoners, (with one docket regarding Mexico), including: Payments to interned...

Catalogue reference: FO 383/74

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FO 383/74
Date
1915
Description

Germany: Prisoners, (with one docket regarding Mexico), including:

Payments to interned British civilian from money deposited in German bank: case regarding Mrs Molony of Sloane Square, London.

Relief afforded to Mrs Victoria Breese (or Viktoria Breese), German born widow of British subject, following her departure from Nuremberg for Canada via England: question of repayment of advance.

Crops in Germany.

C Carlebach, interned as a German subject but son of a naturalised British subject: application against internment.

Mrs A Davey, of Kensington, London: question of payment of debts of her interned German lodger.

Percy Dunsby: correspondence for James Mason, of Dover, forwarded via US authorities in Berlin, regarding request from Mrs M Dunsby of Danzig, British subject by marriage, to accommodate her son, Percy Dunsby, on his arrival in England; report that he had been detained by German authorities; eventual arrival in England of Mrs Dunsby with four children, including Percy; request for Mrs Dunsby's marriage certificate.

Assistance to Russian prisoners of war in Germany.

Appointment of Albert de Courcy as HM Pro-Consul at Progreso, Mexico: transmission of official seal and signature (in docket no. 112176 - docket cover headed 'Consular. Mexico' rather than 'Prisoners, &c Germany').

Food and clothing for Russian prisoners in Germany.

Private J Smith, Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders, interned at Ohrdruf: surgical operations for jaw wound; particulars of treatment and question of cost and payment.

Prohibited 'literature' sent to British in Germany.

British subjects in Germany: enquiry from The Royal Society of Medicine whether any male British subjects in Germany between ages of 18 and 60 were still allowed to be 'at large' in Germany.

Godfrey Thomas, Attaché of the late British Embassy at Berlin: claim against him from a Berlin hotel for outstanding charges.

Wages of master (Capt M Gringer) and crew of British prize ship, the German vessel SS Werner Vinnen: crew interned at Alexandra Palace, London; includes list of individuals showing wages and overtime due (in docket no. 109213).

Ruhleben publications: request by L G Beaumont, vice captain of the Ruhleben camp, for copies of 'In Ruhleben Camp' to be forwarded to Mrs Beaumont, Holyhead.

Louis Hamilton, British subject of pro-German views: report regarding his background and activities.

Rate of pay issued to RAMC [Royal Army Medical Corps] prisoners in Germany.

Sir Horace Rumbold, Counsellor of HM late Embassy at Berlin: seizure by German authorities of two cases belonging to him; representations to German Government.

Repatriation of German civilians in British possessions.

Herr Waetzold: notification by UK Government to US Government that they were not prepared to grant a safe-conduct.

Thomas Gooding, released from Ruhleben, now at Davos, Switzerland: application for assistance out of public funds.

Alexander Heymann, civilian prisoner of war in Germany: request for remittance to be forwarded from J R Martin & Co of London; investigation into his claim to be a British subject.

Capitulation of Marshall Islands (Jaluit atoll): German Government request for repatriation from Australia to Germany of Dr Adolf Müller, doctor of the Jaluit Company, under terms of Capitulation Agreement.

Nevile Montagu Butler, British subject released from Ruhleben but detained in Berlin: proposed exchange for Friedrich Sommerkamp, German subject detained in England at Lofthouse Park camp, or Fritz Schulz, German invalid residing in South Belgravia, London.

British civilians in Ruhleben: request by Prisoners of War Help Committee for latest list.

George Mattison, of Middlesbrough: account of his experiences as a prisoner following his return from Germany; request for financial assistance or means of employment; question of him having to surrender his emergency passports, these being the only papers to prove his British nationality.

W C Smith, British subject interned at Ruhleben: question of him leaving camp for an operation.

British Military Fund accounts from Berlin.

Relief of British military prisoners through Mr Harte, American YMCA.

Transfer of German prisoners from Ceylon to Australia.

Unanswered letters: list of letters sent to Admiralty to which no replies received.

Code 1218 File 105462-114701.

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