Germany: Prisoners, including: Dr Walter Sulzbach, interned in Ahmednagar: possible...

FO 383/77

1915

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Dr Walter Sulzbach, interned in Ahmednagar: possible transfer as prisoner of war from India to England.

Visits to camps in UK by Mr C Damm, District Secretary, National Sailors and Fireman's Union, London, on behalf of Danish Labour Unions.

Clarence Leonard Millar, aged 15 years, scholar in Saarbrucken: enquiries from his mother, Clara C Millar of Leicester, regarding his possible repatriation to UK.

Escape of two German officers from Donington Hall: Otto Thelan (or Theilan), flying corps, and Hans Keilach (or Keilhack, or Keilack), naval officer; possibility of them having reached Rotterdam; possible arrival in Spain; report of their recapture and trial by military court.

Sergeant D'Arcy A Latimer, wounded Canadian soldier, prisoner of war at Giessen: request for x-ray examination.

Edward Abram Daniel Allchin, missing British subject in Belgium: enquiries to Belgian authorities regarding his possible whereabouts; reports of him being wounded, and his death and burial at Adinkerke; enquiry from his mother, Mrs B Allchin of Cape Town, requesting information regarding his precise identity and his personal effects.

Mr G K Gude of the Malacological Society of London: request to send a paper pamphlet to Dr C Boettger, member of the Society in Frankfurt.

Captain E R von der Osten, British-Canadian subject, prisoner in Germany, and his wife Mrs Lilian von der Osten: information from Private A W Maunders, former prisoner, now in 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth, regarding ill-treatment; referral of allegation to German authorities.

Transport to Germany of property of German women from the Cameroons.

Sergeant R W Barrett, Northants Yeomanry, deceased in Germany: recovery of his personal property.

Philip Nutt, of the firm David Nutt, publishers of New Oxford Street, London: enquiries regarding his personal property in Hamburg.

Fryer children: Walter Herman Fryer, aged 12 years, and Helene Frances Fryer, aged 10 years, in Rotterdam, children of interned German father with their mother living in London; enquiries regarding their possible return to UK.

Escape from Germany of Sergeant Alfred Birley, 1st Gloucestershire Regiment, and Private Sidney Haworth, Coldstream Guards.

Brig-General Bradley, prisoner in Germany: enquiries from his wife, Mrs Alice Bradley of Portman Square, London, regarding his possible internment in a neutral country.

Parcel of cloth for suit to Ruhleben prisoner.

Clothing for W P Goodale, British civilian prisoner of war interned in Ruhleben.

Mrs F H Ward, of Catford, wife of British subject interned in Ruhleben: request for assistance following discontinuance of relief from National Relief Fund.

Madame Mabel von Ferentheil (née Beresford), in Brunswick, Germany: request for relief; arrangements for payment of annuity.

Letter for transmission to Lady MacDonald from Mr F Thiel, Consul General, German Foreign Office, Berlin, regarding a missing German officer, Baron von Ketelhodt.

Mrs Berta Hiller and family in UK: request from husband, Robert Hiller, British civil prisoner of war interned in Ruhleben, for relief for his family destitute in Stepney; enquiries regarding nationality of Mr Hiller; report that he was over age when his father was naturalised and so was not a British subject.

Mrs Elina Sara Smith, in St Thomas, Danish West Indies: information from her husband, James Smith, 'coloured' British subject interned in Ruhleben, regarding her destitute condition; request for relief.

Mrs Elsa Johnston, German-born wife of British subject: application for assistance; reported that she was separated from her husband, Charles H Johnston of Highgate, London; arrangements for payments under terms of separation order.

Treatment of British prisoners in Germany: report of booklet on sale in neutral countries.

Original correspondence received at HM Consulate General, Lourenco Marques, from Tanga, German East Africa.

Missionaries detained in German East Africa from The Universities' Mission to Central Africa.

Army List for Geneva Bureau.

German Consulate General at Singapore: alleged sale of building containing archives and personal effects of the Consul-General.

Removal of prisoners: Togoland; includes printed copy of Gold Coast Colony ordinance no 13 of 1915, Removal of Prisoners (Togoland) Ordinance, 1915 (in docket no. 139718).

Removal of prisoners from and to the Cameroons; includes printed copy of Gold Coast Colony ordinance no 26 of 1915, Removal of Prisoners (Cameroons) Ordinance, 1915 (in docket no. 183496).

Fugitive offenders: Togoland; includes printed copy of Gold Coast Colony ordinance no 14 of 1915, Fugitive Offenders (Togoland) Ordinance, 1915 (in docket no. 139797).

Otto Metzger, US declarant, actor playing in London before outbreak of war, now in Germany: request for shipment of two trunks to Berlin.

Mr C Mendelson, British subject interned at Ruhleben: claim for damage to personal belongings.

Mrs A M Griffin, of Kingstown, Ireland: enquiry regarding welfare of her daughter, Miss Griffin ('Soeur Dominique'), at the Convent de Ste. Chrétienne, Jorcy-Sedan, under German occupation.

Mrs Elsa Schluckwerder, residing in Berlin; request for permission to return to her husband, Alfred Schluckwerder, and three young children in German South West Africa via Cape Town and England.

Ferdinand Schott, former German Consul at Gibraltar: order for a waterproof coat; enquiries regarding his apparent liberty; report that he was a British-born subject.

British civilians interned in Germany and Austria: transfer of lists from Prisoners of War Help Committee of English prisoners of war interned, other than those at Ruhleben; includes lists of individuals (in docket no. 140687).

Helene Schmidt, aged 8 years, staying in Wilmslow, Cheshire: request for advice and assistance for her uncle, Emilio Colsmann, a pro-German Peruvian long resident in Germany, to come to UK to fetch the child home to Germany.

Mrs Eichenberg, wife of a German subject interned at Pontmain (Mayenne): request for permission to come to UK to visit her mother, Mrs Moffat, in Glasgow.

W Ziggelkow, German prisoner of war at Lofthouse Park Camp, Wakefield: request for receipt for £2785 claimed to have been handed over to Captain Craven at Bouthe, Sierra Leone.

Professor F Sefton Delmer, British subject residing in Berlin: proposed exchange for Herr Freytag, interned at Lofthouse Park Camp, Wakefield.

Mrs Margrieta Beer, residing in Rome, English-born widow of a German subject: request to return to UK.

Mrs R Bacon of Great Yarmouth: enquiry how her husband, E B Bacon, in Ruhleben may send money to her.

Rifleman John Mulley, consumptive prisoner at Döberitz: possibility of him being a suitable subject for exchange; request by W E Denison, Director of Halifax Courier Ltd, for assistance to secure a war service badge; includes printed list of recipients of parcels (in docket no. 142122); enquiries into Mulley's health.

Paul Hirschfeld, late German Embassy, London: question of payment of taxes on building and inhabited house duty.

Herman Dittmar, prisoner at Knockaloe, Isle of Man: enquiries regarding his claim to 23 years uninterrupted residence in US and intention to become a US citizen; HM Government agreement that he may be released on condition he proceeds immediately to the United States.

Dr Seitz, late Governor of German South West Africa: proposed exchange for Brig-General C E Bradley or Mr W Butterworth; investigation into claim that Dr Seitz had retained diamonds belonging to the Protectorate Government.

Code 1218 File 134067-142158.

File 134067-142158.

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