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

FO 383/156

1916

Germany: Prisoners, including:

British prisoners in Germany, including:

• Conditions and employment of prisoners at Windau (Ventspils), Latvia, Russia.
• Conditions and employment of prisoners sent to Poland.
• Durham Light Infantry Prisoners of War Fund suggest arrangement between Germany and Britain for inspection of camps; Foreign Office say this is best left to US embassies.
• Inspection of Allied prisoners in Germany by Russian Red Cross Sisters.
• Clothing sent to prisoners at Döberitz Camp.
• Statements made by two escaped Canadian soldiers: Lance Corporal Henry Saunderson, 8th Canadian Regiment, and Private Claude Evans, 12th Royal Fusiliers.
• William Savory, Barbados-born crew member of Grimsby trawler Seti: his statement of treatment and conditions at Wilhelmshaven, Emden, Sennelager and Ruhleben camps; Admiralty opinion that statements of Grimsby fishermen and report on Sennelager Camp should be published; Foreign Office opinion that the statements and report described a superseded situation and publication would do harm.
• Punishment of prisoners at Münster Rennbahn Camp.
• Footballs and boxing gloves for prisoners.
• Parcels for prisoners in Germany: report of their being tampered with.
• Prisoners sent to Libau, Latvia, Russia.
• Conditions at Güstrow, Erfurt and Langensalza camps.
• Chief Petty Officer A J Picton-Warlow, interned in Friedrichsfeld and made to work at Lake Angorn, near Riga, Russia: request by his wife that German prisoners be brought back from France to cancel retaliatory measures.
• Captain Vidal, RAMC [Royal Army Medical Corps]: confiscation of medicines sent to Capt Vidal whilst a prisoner in Germany; recovery of his and Major Priestley's papers.
• Statement of Rifleman Frederick Jefferys about the bayoneting of Private Green at Münster Camp.
• Food parcels for prisoners: alleged stoppage of bread parcels sent to prisoners.
• Treatment of prisoners at Staumühle Camp: memorandum by Madame Kinen.
• Private Lonsdale: parliamentary question about his being sentenced to penal servitude for life.
• General Booth, Salvation Army: request if he may confer with a German officer about assistance for British and French prisoners; discouraged by Foreign Office.
• Clothing of British prisoners interned at Limburg and elsewhere in Germany.
• Working camps in Germany.
• Conditions and employment of British prisoners in Germany.
• Bread sent from Bureau de Secours to Germany.
• British officers at Bad Blenhorst Camp: complaint by officer.
• Private R J Tanner, The Queen's Regiment, interned at Sprottau Camp: enquiry as to his welfare.
• Appointment of American doctors to Germany.
• William Boddington, interned at Schneidemühl Camp: sentenced on 5 April 1916 to two years imprisonment for persistent refusal to obey orders and insulting superior officer.
• British prisoners employed at Münden and Halverde camps.
• Torgau: report on officer prison camp at Torgau, with list of officers interned (in docket no. 131649).
• Limburg: report on Limburg Camp, with lists of some prisoners (in docket no. 131650).
• Receipt of bread parcels by prisoners undergoing punishment.
• Friedrichsfeld Camp: report on camp.
• Publication of reports prepared by Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War.
• Collection of evidence from British prisoners in Switzerland.
• Shooting of two British prisoners, Patrick Moran of 2nd Connaught Rangers, and William Devlin of Royal Munster Fusiliers, in one of the Limburg working camps.
• Reports on working camps in Germany: Dobien, Reinsdorf, Piesteritz, Coswig, Rosslau, Meinsdorf, Bergwitz, Zschornewitz, Golpa, Kemberg, Bad Schmiedeberg, Torgau, Schoena, Muckenberg and Lauchhammer.
• British prisoners transferred to Russian territory: request for Germans to allow inspection.
• Typhus epidemic at Gardelegen Camp: printed reports by Captain Arthur J Brown, RAMC, and Major P C T Davy, RAMC.
• Clothing for British naval prisoners at Dulmen.
• Report on officers' and mens' internment camps at Ingolstadt, Bavaria.
• Comparison of diet of prisoners in HM Prisons and in prisoner camps in Germany.
• Burg bei Magdeburg: report on officer prison camp at Burg bei Magdeburg.
• Punishment of British non-commissioned officers for refusal to work.
• Non-delivery of parcels in Brandenburg Camp.
• Sir Arthur Lawley's interview with Prince Maximilian of Baden concerning treatment of prisoners.
• Treatment of British prisoners in Germany: summaries of statements made by disabled prisoners repatriated from Germany on 24 May 1916.

Code 1218 File 463 (papers 115032-143538).

File 463 (pp.115032-143538).

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