Germany: Prisoners, including: Prisoners of the rank of officer interned in Britain...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Prisoners of the rank of officer interned in Britain or in British overseas territories, including:

• Lists of officers (excluding officers' servants) interned in the following officers' camps and military hospitals: Holyport, Berkshire; Donington Hall, Leicestershire; Dyffryn Aled, North Wales; Lower Southern Hospital, Dartford, Kent; Military Detention Barracks, Chelmsford (in docket no.340).
• German officers of the Reserve transferred from officers' camps to Lofthouse Park, Wakefield, civilian camp.
• Lieutenant Arthur Zirzow, interned at Fort Henry, Kingston, Canada, claims privileges as officer which have been refused him. To be put on list of Officers of the Reserve and to be paid through United States Embassy.
• Wolf von Trotha, interned at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield, claims privileges as officer.
• Promotion of six officers of German South West African forces.
• List of interned officials of officer rank of German Protectorates of the Cameroons, East Africa, Samoa and Togoland (in docket no.7964).
• List of interned British officers promoted since capture, whose pay needs to be revised (in docket no.7967).
• Lieutenant Heinrich Ahrendt: arrears of pay consequent on promotion.
• Internment of German midshipmen and Fähnriche-zur-See. War Office say they are not entitled to treatment as officers, but Admiralty say they are; midshipmen in the British Royal Navy are classed as officers. German Government states that Naval Ensigns are equivalent to Army Ensigns: they are not officers, but may be considered probationary officers. Midshipman P Dearden, RN, has been interned in an officers' camp in Germany. German government makes special case for non-commissioned ranks who have been employed in the field in officers' posts.
• Pay and treatment of interned German officers of the Reserve: to be treated as officers but not paid for from British funds.
• List of officers interned in British dominions overseas (in docket no.26129).
• Erhard Zweck, interned at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield: he cannot be regarded as an officer.
• List of Officers of the Reserve interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man, who desire transfer to an officers' camp or the privilege camp at Douglas (in docket no.38448).
• Claims by German paymasters and chief gunners interned in South Africa to be treated as officers, consequent on automatic promotion based on length of service: list of persons (in docket no.46303).
• Payment of salary to paroled German officers in South West Africa.
• Friedrich Franck and Bodo Mertens, interned in Canada: neither are in receipt of officers' pay from the Canadian Government, but are to be paid through United States Embassy.
• Treatment and status of German Officers of the Reserve taken prisoner by the British under various circumstances: several such persons to be treated as officers and transferred to officers' camps.
• Pay and treatment of officers promoted after capture.
• Oberleutnant Ernst Wintzer, interned at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield: he wishes to remain at the civilian camp at Wakefield rather than be transferred to an officers' camp.
• German Reserve Officers interned at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Leutnant der Reserve Köthke, Infantry Regiment 162, interned at Handforth, Cheshire: wishes to be treated and paid as an officer consequent on promotion.

Code 1218 File 340.

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