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

FO 383/155

1916

Germany: Prisoners, including:

British prisoners in Germany, including:

• Alleged removal of butter from prisoners' parcels.
• Sergeant Paul Véron, French soldier interned in Switzerland: allegation that British prisoners who refused to build Zeppelin sheds were court-martialled and imprisoned.
• Publication of reports by repatriated Royal Army Medical Corps officers.
• Proposal to take evidence from British prisoners in Switzerland: rejection of proposal.
• Parcels sent to Münster and Giessen Camps.
• Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War: wish to obtain reports of French Medical Officers on prisoner camps in Germany; Foreign Office request to British Ambassador in Paris to ask French Government's permission.
• Violation of The Hague and Geneva Conventions by Germans.
• Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War: forwarding of printed reports on Gardelegen, Langensalza, Döberitz, Sennelager, Göttingen and Friedrichsfeld Camps during first eight months of the war.
• Non-receipt of parcels at Döberitz Camp.
• Army Council agreement that reports released to the press on internment camps and hospitals in Germany should not contain names of individuals.
• Treatment of fisherman prisoners in Germany.
• Private James A Webb, interned at Giessen Camp and made to work loading trucks at ironworks: enquiries after him.
• Alleged employment of British prisoners in Germany on munitions work.
• Food and medical supplies for prisoners in Germany.
• Ladies' Emergency Committee of the Navy League complaint about non-receipt of parcels by naval prisoners.
• German prisoners in Britain not prohibited from mentioning the nature of their illnesses in letters home.
• Complaints of non-delivery of parcels: reminder from US Embassy that parcels should bear current numbers and an exact list of contents, and parcels for prisoners in working camps should be addressed to parent camps.
• Employment of prisoners in coalyard at Paulstrasse, Berlin.
• Officer prisoners camp at Friedberg.
• Prisoners camp at Hameln.
• Parcels of bread for prisoners serving sentences.
• Lieutenants C H J Chichester-Constable and C F L Templar: report that their conditions had improved.
• Sir Louis Mallet's notes of an interview given by Prince Maximilian of Baden to Sir Arthur Lawley, of the British Red Cross, concerning treatment of prisoners.
• Chief Petty Officer A J Picton-Warlow, interned at Döberitz: enquiry from his wife, Hon Secretary of 'Invalid Comforts for Prisoners of War', about him and his comrades.
• Meeting between British and German Red Cross delegates: report that meeting not adopted as treatment of prisoners best left to US Embassy at Berlin.
• Lieutenant H Shand Carter, interned at Bad Blenhorst Camp (for officers) near Nienburg an der Weser.
• William Boddington and other British prisoners at Schneidemühl: their trial.
• Conditions in working camps in Westphalia.
• Employment and rest days for prisoners.
• Captain S H Batty-Smith, interned at Bischofswerda: letter from camp commandant.
• Treatment of British prisoners: debate of 31 May 1916 in House of Lords. Lists of prisoners deceased in Germany (in docket no. 109971).
• Reports on prisoner camps at Cologne (Köln), Wesel, Erfurt, Langensalza, Neisse, Gnadenfrei and Neu-Strelitz.
• Employment of prisoners in contravention of Conventions.
• Diet of British prisoners.
• Non-receipt of parcels by Private Woodward at Friedrichsfelde, Rifleman G Cann at Sennelager and Lance Corporal George Reynolds at Limburg.
• Captain C Sackville-Hamilton, Leinster Regiment, interned at Crefeld: his receipt of parcels.
• Captain W Allistone sentenced to one year's imprisonment for damaging Government property (cutting through flooring of hut to dig escape tunnel); Lieutenant C F L Templer sentenced to one year and one week for the same and for theft of scaffolding planks.
• British prisoners sent to Poland.
• Murder of David Garrett, ERA 1st class, Royal Navy, by German guards at Langenmoor: statement of Corporal B E Tomlinson, 2nd Life Guards.
• Privates W Strachan and Hugh Young, Gordon Highlanders, removed from Germany to Windau, Russia, with 2000 others to lay a railway, in retaliation for British removal of German prisoners to France.
• Distribution of tobacco and cigarettes donated by Imperial Tobacco Company.
• Delay in transmission of letters from Güstrow and Münster Camps.
• Food supplied to prisoners at Schneidemühl Camp.

Code 1218 File 463 (papers 97092-114792).

File 463 (pp.97092-114792).

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