Germany: Prisoners, including: British prisoners in Germany, including: Prisoners...

FO 383/153

1916

Germany: Prisoners, including:

British prisoners in Germany, including:

• Prisoners of War Help Committee rejection of suggestion by Archdeacon Nies that questions put to soldiers receiving parcels hurts their self-respect.
• Report by John B Jackson, of US Embassy, Berlin, on Magdeburg Camp and typhus epidemic at Wittenberg Camp.
• Conditions at Wittenberg Camp. Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War deprecates publication of report by Dr Caldwell (of the American Red Cross) on Wittenberg Camp, giving false impression of conditions at camp in November 1915. Submission by Committee of its own report on the camp. Allegation by Major Priestley that Dr Caldwell was wearing the Iron Cross and other German decorations at the time of his inspection. Press cutting of The Times leader of 15 April 1916.
• Treatment of British prisoners in Germany: press cuttings from The Morning Post and the Evening Standard and St James's Gazette.
• Employment of British prisoners in Germany: Strassburger Post report of 18 March 1916 that 86,000 prisoners were engaged in communal work, 339,000 in agriculture, 244,000 in industry and 250,000 on military defence work and road mending.
• Report by John B Jackson, of US Embassy, Berlin, on Spandau Camp.
• Distribution of tobacco to British prisoners.
• Lieutenant Cecil H Chichester-Constable, imprisoned at Magdeburg Camp: sentence to nine months' solitary confinement.
• Report by Godfrey B Samuelson, internee, on Ruhleben Camp; and report by Dr Ella Scarlett Synge on Wittenberg Camp, with comments on it by Captain Alan C Vidal, internee.
• Recovery of papers left at Wittenberg Camp by Major Priestley and Captain Vidal.
• Reports on Crefeld and Münster (Westphalia) Camps.
• Private H Petch, 1st Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment: complaint about conditions of work in Döberitz Camp.
• Private E Vokins, 1st Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, imprisoned in Germany.
• Captain A B W Allistone, 4th Middlesex Regiment: enquiry by his father as to his welfare; proposed removal to a private 'nerven-klinik' at Halle.
• Reported confiscation of butter from prisoners' parcels: 'Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung' admits parcels containing butter were placed at disposal of central butter-buying office in Berlin, but addressees received compensation.
• Non-receipt of parcels by British prisoners.
• Corporal J Wilson, prisoner at Münster.
• Captain A D L Stewart, interned at Weilburg, and Lieutenant A Campbell, interned at Halle.
• Supply of bread to British prisoners employed in Spandau Chemical Works.
• Lieutenant C F L Templar, imprisoned in Germany.
• Clothing required by British prisoners at Landau, Bavarian Pfalz.
• Private James Duxburg, interned in the Lazaret Aschaffenburg.
• Motor car used for visits to prisoners' camps.
• Conditions obtaining in working camps for prisoners in Germany.
• British prisoners serving sentences at Cologne (Köln).
• Needy British prisoners in Germany.
• Despatch of goods to US Consul-General at Hamburg for distribution amongst prisoners in lazarets in Hamburg.
• Drummer A E Page, prisoner in Germany.
• Payment for the transport of flour on French railways.
• Typhus epidemic at Gardlegen Camp.
• Report on Güstrow Camp.
• Supply of drugs for prisoners.
• Typhus camps: Wittenberg, Schneidemühle, Gardelegen, Güstrow, Langensalza and Niederzwheren.
• Lance Naick Mirza Mohamed Hosain, Indian prisoner interned at Wünsdorf.
• Private Alban Charles Tulley, Royal Marines Light Infantry, interned at Doberitz: death from exposure and insufficient food and clothing while a prisoner.
• Treatment of prisoners in typhus camps.

Code 1218 File 463 (papers 57404-76841).

File 463 (pp.57404-76841).

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