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Turkey: Prisoners, including: Relief for British subjects, including: Distressed...

Catalogue reference: FO 383/90

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FO 383/90

Date

1915

Description

Turkey: Prisoners, including:

Relief for British subjects, including:

  • Distressed employees of the Smyrna Aidin Railway.
  • Relief at Alexandria.
  • Relief of interned prisoners in Turkey.
  • Madame Catafago, Italian national in Alexandria: request for relief assistance.
  • Clothing for British prisoners in the hands of the Turks.
  • Lieut I M Twyman, prisoner of war in Turkey: enquiry from his father, George Twyman of Canterbury, regarding remittances.
  • Accommodation for British subjects at Baghdad.
  • Interned seamen at Magnesia: enquiry from The Imperial Merchant Service Guild regarding supplies of clothing and other comforts.
  • Clothing for British prisoners.
  • Private Edgar Granger, prisoner of war at Constantinople: enquiry from his father, Thomas Granger of Stockport, regarding remittances.
  • Comforts for Newfoundland prisoners.
  • Remittance of £100 for interned seamen at Magnesia from shipping company, Ellerman Lines Ltd, in respect of clothing.
  • Remittance of £50 to H J Wratislaw, interned in Turkey, from his father, A C Wratislaw of Kensington.
  • Remittance of £500 for New Zealand prisoners in Turkey.
  • Remittances for crews at Magnesia.
  • Relief for refugees in Athens.
  • Jewish Refugees Administration: bills and expenses.
  • Remittances for British prisoners: objection regarding proposed arrangement with American Express Company.
  • Relief at Smyrna and Nymphio for British subjects: includes lists of individuals (in docket no. 159086).
  • Remittance of £1,000 for relief of Australian prisoners in Turkey.
  • Lieut C E Palmer, RNVR [Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve], prisoner of war Afion Kara Hissar: remittance of £10 from his wife.
  • Remittance of £2,000 for relief of prisoners at Constantinople, received from a Mr Leavitt.
  • Relief for refugees from Turkey at Athens.
  • Remittances to prisoners of war in Turkey.
  • John Alexakis, late British Consular Agent at Scalenova: relief assistance.
  • Christian refugees from Urfa.
  • British naval ratings: remittances for crew of the submarine E.15.
  • Relief of Cypriots at Smyrna.
  • Captain A I Dawes, British prisoner of war detained in the hospital at Constantinople.
  • Relief of Australian and New Zealand prisoners in Turkey.
  • Remittances for British prisoners of war in Turkey: includes list of individuals (in docket no. 178382).
  • Remittances for British prisoners in Turkey, via Red Crescent Society.
  • British Refugee Commission, Athens.
  • Lady Victoria Herbert: £30 contributed by her for British rank and file prisoners.
  • Remittance of £15 for men of the Hampshire Regiment prisoners in Turkey.
  • Third list of remittances for British prisoners in Turkey: includes list of individuals (in docket no. 190177).
  • Remittances to three British prisoners in Turkey: Private G H Willings (Hampshire Regiment), Sergeant Babister (Berkshire Regiment), W Gordon McDonald (late of submarine E.7).
  • Clothing and funds for British prisoners in Turkey.
  • Relief of employees in Turkey: Ottoman Railway.
  • Money and parcels for British prisoners in Turkey.
  • Remittances and correspondence for British prisoners in Turkey.
  • Mehmed Munir Bey, native of Cyprus: relief at Constantinople.
  • Cheques drawn by British subjects in Turkey on British banks payable to US authorities for relief purposes.
  • Lieut E J Price, Royal Navy, held in Turkey: remittance of £150 from his brother-in-law.
  • Remittances for two British prisoners: Lieut J L Stone, Worcester Regiment, in Turkey; Lieut W E Gilliland, Norfolk Regiment, in Bulgaria.
  • Money for crew of the E.15 submarine from the Ladies Emergency Committee, Navy League.

Code 1244 File 121 (papers 136750-end).

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The National Archives, Kew
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File 121 (pp.136750-end).

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Refugees
Clothing
Internment
International
Railways
Army
Trade and commerce
Europe and Russia
Nationality
Navy
Americas
Middle East
Disasters and emergencies
Operations, battles and campaigns
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