Belgium: Prisoners, including: Repatriation of British women and children detained...

FO 383/132

1916

Belgium: Prisoners, including:

Repatriation of British women and children detained in Belgium and northern France, including:

• British subjects detained in Lille.
• British refugees from Belgium: names of 46 destitute given (in docket no.217).
• Henry Brookfield (late Auerbach), British subject, asks that his wife and children come from Brussels to join him in England.
• Mrs Moodie and her daughter Miss Alma Moodie, both detained in Brussels.
• Mrs MacDonald and Mrs Faulkner in Lille: correspondence of Sir William Lever, Chairman of Lever Brothers Ltd, with Ludwig Stollwerck of Cologne (Köln), Germany, seeking their release.
• James A Ashley, released Ruhleben prisoner, asks for his wife and 2 children to be allowed to come from Brussels to England.
• Miss Louisa Austen Brookman, detained in Lille: Messrs Latchams and Montague of Bristol wish to send her a remittance.
• Mrs Wendt of Brussels: repatriated on the special train for British women and children which left Brussels on 29 December 1915.
• Miss Bertha Connolly, daughter of John Connolly of Warrington, Lancashire: European War Committee of County Borough of Warrington ask about arrangements for her repatriation.
• Miss Annette Scott, resident at Convent Saint Joseph, Montzeu, near Verviers, Province Liège.
• Mrs James A Ashley, Mrs James N Green and Mrs Francois A Wilhelm, wives of British civilians released from Ruhleben: their repatriation.
• Mrs Henry Cailleau and her children: United States Legation in Brussels to seek permission of German authorities for her to leave Belgium. Her husband Victor Cailleau is informed she does not wish to leave Tournai, where she is living with her father.
• P Jones of Gillingham, Kent, asks for release of his daughter Miss Eileen Jones, a student at the Convent Sainte Chrétienne, Torcy-Sedan, Ardennes; she signs declaration that she wishes to stay.
• Children of Joseph and Marie Delmotte, at the Convent des Soeurs de la Visitation, Audenarde (Oudenaarde), Belgium: their removal to Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Miss Mary Ethelreda Crick, governess for Madame Bouillart, Chateau d'Hyon par Mons, Hainaut: her father Andrew Crick of Boston, Lincolnshire, asks for her release; German authorities refuse to allow British women and children to leave those parts of Belgium in zone of military administration.
• Miss Aline Rita Henry, captured at St Mihiel, Meuse.
• Sir William R Meredith, Chief Justice of Ontario, Canada, asks that his daughter Mrs Peters, her two daughters and her companion Miss MacPherson, may leave Brussels and return to Canada.
• Miss Katie Knightly, governess at Roubaix, France, in a district in German occupation; her father Martin Knightly of Castlemaine, Co Kerry, Ireland, desires her repatriation.
• English children in convents at Bruges: the Convent de l'Ange Gardien, and the Convent de la Retraite. The Crusade of Rescue and Homes for Destitute Catholic Children provides a list of their names (given in docket no.40276). Southwark Catholic Rescue Society give other names (in docket no.44017).
• Mrs Mary J Tucker writes concerning her daughter Miss Mary V Tucker, at the Convent de la Retraite, Bruges, desiring her repatriation.
• Miss Mary Teresa Byrne, governess at Valenciennes, France, in a district in German occupation; her father Thomas Byrne of Killarney, Co Kerry, Ireland, desires her repatriation.
• British women in the Convent of the Assumption, Froyennes, near Tournai, Belgium: Sister Dominique (Miss Nelly Burnett) and Sister Alphonsus (Miss Winifred Welsh). Germans allow 32 French Sisters to leave but not the 2 British Sisters; application eventually granted.
• Miss Elizabeth Theresa O'Longan in a convent at Tournai, Belgium: her father Paul O'Longan of Forest Gate, London, desires her repatriation.

Code 1204 File 83 (to paper 99934).

File 83 (to pp.99934).

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