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Austria-Hungary: Prisoners, including: Treatment of Austro-Hungarian prisoners, including:...

Catalogue reference: FO 383/120

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Reference
FO 383/120
Date
1916
Description

Austria-Hungary: Prisoners, including:

Treatment of Austro-Hungarian prisoners, including:

  • Ferdinand Froehlich, Austrian subject, interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man: petition.
  • Proposed release of Austro-Hungarian subjects allegedly over military age of detention.
  • Arthur Hoffnung, Austro-Hungarian subject: relief for wife and children.
  • Friedrich Nettel, George Wegscheidler and Carl Danninger, Austro-Hungarian subjects interned at Knockaloe Camp: petition that Austro-Hungarians be put in a separate camp from other prisoners.
  • Treatment of Austro-Hungarian prisoners, including Roman Catholic missionaries, at Ahmednagar Camp, India.
  • Treatment of Austro-Hungarian prisoners in Australia.
  • Conditions at Alexandra Palace.
  • Gustav d'Oiseau Ziegler, Austrian subject, interned at Islington, London.
  • Treatment of Austro-Hungarian prisoners interned at Wakefield, Yorkshire.
  • Petition from Austro-Hungarian prisoners interned at Douglas Camp, Isle of Man.
  • Hans Egon Lichtenstadt, Austro-Hungarian subject interned at Donington Hall: petition.
  • Franz Zdrahal, Austro-Hungarian subject interned at Douglas Camp, Isle of Man: petition.
  • Report on Verdala Barracks, Malta.
  • Arrest and detention in gaol of Austro-Hungarian subjects in British Columbia, Canada.

Furniture and effects belonging to diplomats, including:

  • Agreement with Austria for exchange of furniture and personal effects belonging to diplomats in Vienna and London.
  • Permission sought to send Count Albert Mensdorff's State Coach from London to him in Austria.
  • Count Trauttmansdorff's effects ready for despatch.
  • Furniture of Max Müller, British Consul General in Budapest.

John Small and Stephen Pean, negro British subjects interned at Grossau, charged with larceny: Small was acquitted; Pean served a sentence. After internment, both released for repatriation.

Colonel Napier and Captain Stanley Wilson MP, British officers taken from a Greek steamship and interned at Salzerbad, Austria. Captain Wilson writes to Andrew Bonar Law, Secretary of State for the Colonies, requesting they be exchanged with foreign prisoners.

Passage money of certain Austrians interned at Peel Camp, Isle of Man.

Austrians interned in the Union of South Africa claiming treatment as officers.

Letters from Wiener Bankverein (union of Vienna banks) to the London Joint Stock Bank and Messrs Hart, Son & Ichenhauser to be channelled through United States Embassy.

Harry Lowe, British subject residing in Vienna, organises collection for relief of British and French subjects interned in Austria.

Baruch Marcus Newman, Polish Jew born in Galicia, asks permission to send money to his destitute wife and children in Austria.

Code 1203 Files 13817 (papers 98048-end)-26366.

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Former department reference
Files 13817 (pp.98048-end)-26366.
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Internment
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Europe and Russia
Australia and Pacific
Race relations
Children
Nationality
Crime
Operations, battles and campaigns
Africa
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