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Turkey: Prisoners, including: Information as to prisoners of war: report that Ottoman...

Catalogue reference: FO 383/97

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FO 383/97

Date

1915

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Turkey: Prisoners, including:

Information as to prisoners of war: report that Ottoman Government will only furnish information about British prisoners as asked for on the British enquiry form.

Enquiry forms for Turkish prisoners in Australia: Australian white paper; includes printed copy, European War: Instructions Relative to the Internment and Treatment of Alien Enemies, 1914.

List No 1 of Turkish prisoners of war: transmission of list.

Prisoners of war from Australian and New Zealand forces at the Dardanelles: transmission of information; enquiry regarding Private Gordon Fink, Australian Infantry, prisoner at Constantinople.

British prisoners in Turkey: crew of submarine E.15; includes lists of names (in docket no. 78733).

Lists of prisoners of war in Turkey: arrangements.

Prisoners of war in Turkey: wounded prisoners, John McNamara (Leading Seaman, Royal Naval Division); Thomas William Sherlock (9th Battalion, AIF [Allied Invasion Forces]).

Military prisoners of war in Turkey: transmission of second list; need for clothing and comforts.

List of British subjects in Baghdad on 2 June: includes list of individuals (in docket no. 92103).

Enquiries for British missing at the Dardanelles.

British wounded in hospital at Constantinople.

Lists of British prisoners in Turkey: includes lists of men in hospitals (in docket no. 118416).

Non-arrival of lists of British prisoners in Turkey.

Crew of submarine no.7: report that they had been saved and were in Constantinople.

British wounded in Constantinople hospitals: includes lists of individuals (in docket no. 129778).

Exchange of information respecting prisoners of war.

British subjects interned at Charlu.

Lists of British prisoners of war: includes lists of individuals (in docket no. 138487).

Welfare of British subjects at Baghdad (in docket no. 138488).

Information respecting wounded prisoners in Turkey.

Information respecting prisoners in the Eastern theatre, Turkey.

Lists of British prisoners of war in Turkey: arrangements.

Lists of Ottoman prisoners: arrangements.

Official list of British prisoners: includes lists of individuals (in docket no. 145427; some in Arabic).

Lists of British prisoners in Turkey: petty officers and interned men at Angora; includes lists of individuals (in docket no. 146599).

Lists of British prisoners in Turkey: military prisoners and civilians; includes lists of individuals (in docket no. 148815).

Lists of British prisoners on the E.7.submarine:includes lists of individuals (in docket no. 148816; some in Arabic).

Deaths of British soldiers in detention in Turkey: identification disc and notices of death; Private George Keeping; Private Edward Kalfan; Private John Paulo; Sergeant Geen Brickley (in docket no. 178762).

Lists of Ottoman prisoners of war: Hussein Nuri Effendi (in docket no. 181323).

Services rendered by Mr Lumley, solicitor of Conduit Street, London, in respect of case against the owners of the English boat Cambrick.

Protection of British and French interests in Turkey by Americans.

Gratuity to Canon Francis Cowley Whitehouse, Chaplain at Constantinople: application for superannuation.

Remittance of Army separation allowance to Smyrna: case of Mrs Enderbe Borrell, wife of Rifleman A O Borrell, Rifle Brigade, residing in Smyrna with daughter Mary Borrell.

New regulations introduced by Turkish Government.

Crew of submarine E.15, lost in the Dardanelles: enquiries regarding fate and whereabouts, specifically Vice-Consul Edmunds, reportedly on board; list of officers and men saved (in docket no 52981); further enquiries into certain individuals; later list of officers and sailors saved (in docket no 65329).

Lieut Sterling L Larabee, RNVR [Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve], wounded at Dardanelles: enquiries regarding his whereabouts.

Crew of submarine A.E.2: request for assistance to ascertain fate; Lieut-Commander Henry H G D Stoker; Lieut Geoffrey A G Haggard; Lieut John P Cary.

Captain Hamilton Hodgson, Lincolnshire Regiment, attached to the Hampshire Regiment in the Dardanelles, reported missing: enquiry from his father, J H Hodgson, of Reading; also enquiries regarding 2nd Lieut Crewe Coles (4th Battalion East Lancashire Regiment) and Private Gordon Fink (Australian Infantry), also both reported missing in the Dardanelles.

Lieutenant The Hon Maurice H Nelson Hood, RNVR (Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve), reported missing during Dardanelles operations: enquiries regarding his whereabouts.

Enquiries for military prisoners, in Turkey: various individuals, including Lieut Arthur William Bailey (Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry), Capt M A N Becher (1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers), Lieut Hubert Frederick Garrett (9th East Yorkshire Regiment).

Enquiries of missing officers: Mediterranean officers and men, lists of individuals (in docket no. 87515), including enquiry form with personal details for Charles Howard Poston, RNVR, Dardanelles Expeditionary Force.

Enquiry Bureau at Constantinople: proposed establishment, for supplying information as to British prisoners of war in Turkey.

Captain Francis Yeats-Brown, 17th Cavalry, attached to Royal Flying Corps: enquiries whether he was a prisoner of war in Turkey.

A A Merdjimekian, an Armenian and an Ottoman subject: application for permit to return to England from Milan.

General Sherif Pasha: request that his servant, Ismail Hakki, be allowed to pass through England on his way from Stockholm to Paris.

Remittance of £30 from Dr Kevork Ohannessian, Assistant Surgeon of the British Seamen's Hospital in Constantinople, to his wife, Mrs Mary L Ohannessian of Leyton.

Treatment of officers and men of steamship City of Khios and the Assiout interned at Magnesia: parliamentary question from Mr Basil Peto MP [Conservative MP for Devizes, Wiltshire]; reports from Smyrna.

Michel Ledawar, Syrian-born, resident in Paris: request for permission to come to the UK.

Addresses of British Consuls in Turkey: request from The Alexander Clark Company, diamond merchants of Oxford Street, London, for letters to be forwarded on.

Church Missionary Society at Baghdad: expenses and funds.

Ronald H Silley, British subject in Constantinople: request for relief for wife and children at Capri near Naples.

Code 1244 File 38777-61248.

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English and French

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Internment
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Australia and Pacific
Population
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Middle East
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