Belgium: Prisoners, including: Enquiries about persons and property in Belgium, including:...

FO 383/137

1916

Belgium: Prisoners, including:

Enquiries about persons and property in Belgium, including:

• William F Lee, deceased, British subject, formerly interned at Wittenberg Camp, Germany: furniture and effects left at his home in Zulte, Belgium.
• Arthur G Slater, British subject, interned at Ruhleben Camp, Germany.
• Messrs A Boake, Roberts & Co Ltd of Stratford, London: their property at Brussels previously occupied by Willy Wegener.
• Mrs Walter Were of Knocke (Knokke-Heist), Belgium: asks after welfare of her sons, and seeks financial relief.
• Fred Hullah, British subject, residing at Vilvoorde, Belgium: delivery of letter from his mother.
• Miss Jeannie O'Neil of Charleroi, Belgium: enquiry from her sister, Mrs Margaret Scott of Perth, Scotland.
• Walter Robert Pritchard, resident of Liège: enquiry from his son G Pritchard of Paddington, London.
• Mrs Harriet Crossley, deceased: she died in Brussels; her daughters Madame Harriet Louise Decasteau and Madame Mary Evelyn Keottlitz, both in Belgium and married to Belgian subjects, enquire about her will.
• Miss Leonora Welby Butt, deceased: she died at Lubbeck (Lubbeek), near Louvain (Leuven), Belgium; Miss Ann Welby Butt was life tenant of the estate; Public Trustee makes enquiries.
• Mrs Julia Hamley of Anderlecht, Belgium, desires remittances from her husband's funds in Paris.
• Arrest by Germans of Professor Felicien Cattier of Brussels University, a director of The Societe Anonyme Internationale de Telegraphie sans Fil; Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company Ltd desire his release.
• James Begley of Kilmallock, Co Limerick, Ireland: correspondence to him from a nun in Belgium.
• Miss Kitty MacMahon of Brussels writes to her sister Miss Margaret MacMahon of Barnsbury, London W, who replies that all family are well.
• Monsieur O Duquesne of Brussels seeks money allegedly due to him from a Sir James Cuffe (actually Major J A F Cuffe, Royal Munster Fusiliers); Major-General Macdonogh suspicious of German General Staff's wish to make propaganda if wrong name admitted to.
• Gresham Life Assurance Society Ltd of London EC receive letter from Mr Perrin, their Branch Manager in Brussels; they deposit money to his credit in the International Bank, Luxembourg.
• Payment of rates and taxes for house in parts of Belgium occupied by the enemy.
• Sergeant John Norman Burnett, 1st Canadian Mounted Rifle Battalion: his death, and burial in the Military Cemetery at Gheluwe (Geluwe), Belgium: enquiry from Canadian Record Office, London.
• Théodor Piedboeuf, German prisoner of Belgian origin, interned at British prisoner of war camp at Le Hâvre, France: British willing to hand him over to Belgians.
• Mrs Steinschneider, a British subject residing at Brussels, seeks remittance from Messrs Warmington and Edmonds, London.
• Mrs J B Kinsley, a British subject residing at Boitsfort (Watermael-Boitsfort), Brussels, seeks remittance from her husband, Joseph Henry Kingsley, of Faulkham (sic), Kent.
• Captain William Thorp, deceased, late Seaforth Highlanders, and late of Antwerp, Belgium: he died in London in 1915; enquiry by Mrs Adela Adderley of Worthing, Sussex, about the iron safe which he deposited at the Bank of Antwerp.
• Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Edward Boileau, British Consul at Lugano, Switzerland, makes claim for his property ransacked by the Germans in Bruges, Belgium.
• Driver W P Brennan, Royal Field Artillery, applies for payment of separation allowance to his wife Elvira Eugenie Brennan and their three children resident at Walreghem, Belgium.
• Mrs H Stonham of Rye, Sussex: letter to her from her servant Zoe Delval, who is protecting her house in Belgium; she asks for funds to pay the rent, having spent all her own savings, or whether she should leave the house.
• Sir Edward Donner hopes that his brother-in-law and sister, Mr and Mrs Hastings Macredie, resident in Brussels, might be included for exchange and repatriation.

Application for passports by British subjects in Belgium, with photographs (in docket no.226973):

• Miss Paula Eleonore Gilbert, aged 19; paternal grandfather born in England.
• Mrs M H Arthur Smith, aged 54; husband born in England.
• Mrs Victoire Higgins, aged 49; husband born in England.
• Mrs Marguerite Daimond, aged 72; husband born in England.
• Mrs Catherine Pauline Hermans, aged 34; husband a British subject.
• Helene Gillard, aged 17; father a British subject.
• Mrs M A Vanderlinden, aged 32; husband born in England.
• Eleonora Huygebaert-Manning, aged 68; born in England; father born in England.
• A list of 109 persons to whom British Emergency Passports have been granted (in docket no.226973).

Deaths of three British subjects at Ghent, Belgium:

• Reverend Father McKenna.
• Reverend Thomas B Cantwell.
• Patrick Joseph Stanislas Kelly.

Death of Peter Vander Nuck in Belgium: certificate of Out-of-Pension issued by Royal Hospital, Chelsea.

Code 1204 Files 133156-258401.

Files 133156-258401.

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