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Balkans: Prisoners, including: Relief and supplies for British prisoners, including:...
Catalogue reference: FO 383/127
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FO 383/127
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Date (When the record was created)
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1916
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Balkans: Prisoners, including:
Relief and supplies for British prisoners, including:
- Funds, clothing, quinine and food parcels for prisoners in Bulgaria.
- List of British military prisoners in Bulgaria (list of names, with numbers, rank and regiment, in docket no.167934).
- Private J W Hardy, 9th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancasters, prisoner in Bulgaria: non-receipt of parcels, letters and money.
- Trooper H J Crowder, and Lance-Corporal Leslie Wright, both of 1st Derbyshire Yeomanry: remittances sent to them via the Fund for Parcels for Prisoners of War (The Countess of Bective and Lady Henry Bentinck).
- Second Lieutenant H G Taylor, Bedfordshire Regiment, prisoner at Sofia, Bulgaria: remittance for him.
- Lieutenant A A Townsend, 7th Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers, prisoner at Stara Zagora, Bulgaria: remittance for him.
- Icak Sarvi, of Bombay, a British subject, professor in the Jewish School at Philippopolis, interned at Rahmanli.
Arrests of consular staff and suspected agents, including:
- Arrest of officers in charge of the Allied Legations at Sofia, Bulgaria.
- Arrest of Turkish, Austrian, German and Bulgarian consular staff, at Salonica (Thessaloniki), Greece, and reprisals.
- Persons arrested at Mitylene (Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece) and Chios, Greece.
Code 1219 Files 1395 (papers 156709-end)-1647 (to paper 35603).
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Files 1395 (pp.156709-end)-1647 (to pp.35603).
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Open Document, Open Description
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