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

Belgium: Prisoners, including:

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

• Maintenance expenses of English children held in convents at Bruges.
• Repatriation of Delmotte children; Father Deville, American priest, takes them in his party of Belgian women and children due for United States and Canada; departed for New York on 16 September 1916.
• Miss Bertha Connolly, daughter of John Connolly; her repatriation from Zulte, Belgium.
• James Alfred Ashley asks when his wife and children might be repatriated from Belgium.
• Miss Eileen Jones at Sedan, France, acknowledges letters from her father, Mr P Jones.
• Miss Aline Rita Henry, British subject at St Mihiel, France, returns a signed document.
• George Albert P Vidler, released from Ruhleben, asks for his wife, Mrs Johanna E Vidler, and two children to be repatriated from Antwerp.
• Miss Nelly Burnett and Miss Winifred Welsh, two Sisters at the Convent of the Assumption, Froyennes, near Tournai, Belgium: German Government allows them to leave Tournai.
• Henry Brookfield asks when his wife and children might come from Brussels; Mrs Brookfield has received remittances from her husband.
• British residents in Lille, France.
• Miss Elizabeth Theresa O'Longan: her repatriation.
• Miss Helen Gilmartin, a governess in Brussels: her father William Gilmartin of Rosses Point, Co Sligo, Ireland, desires her repatriation. She does not wish to leave for Ireland at present.
• Mr Henry Cailleau of Stamford Hill, London, requests that his wife and family join him from Tournai, Belgium.
• Miss Louisa Austin Brookman at Lille: Messrs Latchams and Montague send her a remittance.
• Miss Henriette Bergl: her grandmother, Madame Wiener, refuses to send her to England; Mrs Katherine Bergl of Brondesbury, London, to be so informed.
• Forcible removal by Germans of men and women from Lille to work in fields. Includes press cuttings from 'Le Temps', 'Le Figaro' and 'Le Matin'.
• Evacuation of Lille and Tourcoing, France.
• Mrs John MacDonald and children, and Mrs Faulkner, in Lille.
• Sister Marguerite, of the Order of St Vincent de Paul, a nurse of Ambulance St Louis at Roubaix, France: wishes to go to unoccupied France, or to Monaco.
• Mrs Moodie and her daughter Miss Alma Moodie in Brussels: they wish to return to Australia.
• Richard Cuvier Roth, British subject, in care of Colonie d'Aliénés at Geel, Belgium: his family wish for him to be repatriated or sent to Holland.
• Miss Phyllis M Waterland, nursing sister of No 8 Red Cross Hospital, asks that her sister, Miss Gwendoline Mary Waterland, a schoolgirl in Belgium, return to England.
• Miss Annie Mackenzie, governess detained at Brussels.
• W Minchin, British subject, desires repatriation of his wife and two sons.
• Miss Katie Cleere at Turcoing, France, desires repatriation.
• Miss Wood at Lille, France, desires repatriation.

Code 1204 File 83 (papers 101311-end).

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