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Austria-Hungary: Prisoners, including: Gerald Bunn, British subject, employee of...

Catalogue reference: FO 383/121

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Reference
FO 383/121
Date
1916
Description

Austria-Hungary: Prisoners, including:

Gerald Bunn, British subject, employee of the British Electric Traction Company Ltd, interned in Austria and awaiting trial: transmission of money to him.

Sir Frederick Duncan, Baronet, British Consul General at Vienna, expresses concern about his property and shares in Bohemia. He is advised to register with the Foreign Claims Office.

Parole given by the crew of the Austrian steamship Daksa: list of names.

Miss Alice Cowles, insane, interned in sanatorium 'Am Steinhof' near Vienna.

Exchange with Austria of incapacitated prisoners.

Alexander George Anderson, British subject, interned at Grossau near Raabs am der Thaya, Austria.

Miss Frances Matthews: payment for her return journey from Vienna to the United Kingdom.

Remittances from Austrian prisoners to their families in Austria, including:

  • Gerhard Rahmstorf, Austrian subject interned at Alexandra Palace, London, seeks to send remittances to wife in Austria.

Ignaz Klassitsch, Hungarian subject interned at Barbados, to be repatriated as an act of grace.

Baron De Forest seeks a channel for receiving reports from his agents concerning his estates in Austria, and for sending them instructions.

Philip Redmond, British subject residing in Budapest: enquiries concerning his welfare.

Miss Lyster, of Starcross, Devon, policy holder with insurance company La Riunione Adriatica di Sicurta: enquiries concerning the status and situation of the company.

Walter Denso, Austrian subject interned at Ahmednagar Camp, India.

Henry Butcher, British subject interned at Vienna, seeks an exchange; individual exchanges not countenanced by British Government.

Austrian records and flags at Aden to be handed over to United States Consul there.

Frederick Wiener, Austrian subject who escaped from Wakefield Camp, Yorkshire, in May 1915 and served with Austrian forces; deserted to Switzerland and interned at Berne, being in possession of false passport.

Personal luggage and effects detained in enemy countries.

W W Poynter, British subject, has been acting as accountant to Count Albert Mensdorff, former Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to London, through Captain Poppauer. Latter to leave the Embassy; permission given for Poynter and Mensdorff to correspond through United States Embassy, so long as letters deal solely with Mensdorff's business affairs in Britain.

Malanka Orlowski, Austrian subject born at Lesniow, Brody, Galicia, Austria, now at Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Court for the Trial of Juvenile Offenders, Winnipeg, requests her birth certificate.

Baron Rudolph von Erggelet, Austrian subject, interned at Alexandra Palace, London, to be fransferred to an officers' camp.

J Hollaus, Austrian subject, repatriated with wife and children: remittance to be sent to him.

Wearing of uniforms by Austro-Hungarian officers while interned in British camps.

Ludwik Wisniak, interned at Lancaster, Lancashire: certain of his tools impounded and in custody of Prisoners of War Information Bureau.

Roccuzzo and Bergallo, two Italian soldiers, taken prisoner by Austrians and made to work in Serbian territory; escaped into Romania and repatriated. One claims the Austrians imprisoned many Serbians, most of whom died.

Code 1203 Files 26502-60496.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Files 26502-60496.
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Shipping
Clothing
Internment
International
Caribbean
Europe and Russia
Population
Children
Nationality
Operations, battles and campaigns
Record URL
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