Germany: Prisoners, including: Interned medical personnel, including: Repatriation...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Interned medical personnel, including:

• Repatriation of incapacitated German prisoners (c120, including 4 officers) on British hospital ship St Denis sailing from Tilbury, Essex, to Flushing (Vlissingen), Netherlands, on 24 May 1916.
• Repatriation of incapacitated British prisoners (95, but no officers) on British hospital ship St Denis returning from Flushing (Vlissingen), Netherlands, to Tilbury, Essex, on 25 May 1916. Officers and non-commissioned officers detained at Aachen, Germany, on grounds that they might be used for training recruits.
• Return of incapacitated British prisoners: suggestion that E van Loon of Dutch Red Cross expected more thanks from British authorities than he was given, in contrast to the studied over-recognition by the Germans. No question that Dutch Red Cross played an admirable and excellent part in the exchanges.
• Extension to Colonies of scheme of exchange of incapacitated prisoners.
• Private Johann Zankl, suffering from mania: to be added to list of lunatic prisoners, and 2 further attendants necessary.
• Dr Béland, interned in Germany: if German Government repatriate him, British Government will release Dr Strauss.
• Doctors Hugo Zieschank and Otto Glantz, to be repatriated from New Zealand: they are to be transferred to neutral vessel at Newport News, Virginia, United States, which should proceed direct to a Dutch port.
• Otto Offermann, sailor of the steamship Emden: medically examined and not eligible for repatriation.
• List of 105 British wounded prisoners in Germany, giving name, regiment, place of internment and injuries (in docket no.117596).
• Lieutenant Kieckhöfer, interned at Ahmednagar, India, then the Military War Hospital at Dartford, Kent; not to be repatriated but transferred to Switzerland.
• Repatriation of destitute German prisoners from British South West Africa: list of names of 16 disabled men (in docket no.173087) who left Cape Town on 21 June 1916 on steamship Laconia.
• Private Frank Richards, 2nd Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, interned at Limburg an der Lahn, Germany: letter of enquiry from the Hon Mary Portman.
• Dr Karl Greiff, physician; Dr Rosenbaum, physician of the University of Chicago; Dr Karl Ludwig Stoll, opthalmologist, interned at Wakefield, where his skills are being made use of; and Dr Trautmann, physician: all arrested on the steamship United States at Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, none eligible for repatriation.
• Incapacitated members of crew of German warship Emden left Sydney, Australia, for London on 4 July 1916 on hospital ship Kanowna. List of crew of the Emden (72 names, in docket no.180667), mostly interned in Australia.
• Repatriation of incapacitated German prisoners (62, including some 'cot cases') on British hospital ship Stad Antwerpen sailing from Tilbury, Essex, to Hook of Holland, Netherlands, on 7 August 1916; 8 non-violent mental cases (names given in docket no.151740) included; also 2 'incurably insane' cases with 3 attendants.
• Repatriation of incapacitated British prisoners (36, including 2 'cot cases', 1 consumptive and 6 non-violent mental cases) on British hospital ship Stad Antwerpen returning from Hook of Holland, Netherlands, to Tilbury, Essex, on 7 August 1916.
• Lieutenant Victor A Maclean, 16th Canadian Battalion, wounded interned prisoner: enquiries as to his whereabouts.
• Petition of 12 German sanitary personnel (named in docket no.154911) brought from Cape Town and interned at Dorchester Camp, Dorset, England: they desire repatriation.
• Private James Shearer, 1st Gordon Highlanders, interned at Stendal, Germany: mentally infirm and partially paralysed.
• Anton Meier, interned at Alexandra Palace, London, then Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man.
• Repatriation of incapacitated German prisoners (c54, including 19 'cot cases') on British hospital ship St Denis sailing from Tilbury, Essex, to Hook of Holland, Netherlands, on 7 October 1916. Also 2 melancholia cases, 1 mentally deficient and 1 acute mania case (names given in docket no.196283).
• Repatriation of incapacitated British prisoners (57, including 1 officer, 2 non-commissioned officers, 5 mental cases and 16 stretcher cases) on British hospital ship St Denis returning from Hook of Holland, Netherlands, to Tilbury, Essex, on 7 October 1916.

Code 1218 File 183 (papers 95003-201885).

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