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

Germany: Prisoners, including:

British prisoners in Germany, including:

• Delivery of parcels to the internment camps at Celle.
• Shooting of two British prisoners at a German prison camp reported in The Times of 21 July 1916: parliamentary question on 2 August 1916; report that the soldiers were Patrick Moran and William Devlin, both shot at Limburg working camps.
• Treatment of prisoners at Güstrow Camp.
• Milk sent to Hanover-Münden and other camps in Germany.
• Conditions in working camps in Westphalia.
• Comparison of diet of prisoners in HM Prisons and in prisoner camps in Germany.
• Proposed return of German prisoners sent to France.
• Drummer A E Page, East Surrey Regiment, interned at Münster.
• Private W Lonsdale: his letter was published in Reynolds Newspaper of 17 October 1915. Report in English press that Lonsdale had been pardoned was without foundation. Interned at Spandau.
• British prisoners made to work in German-occupied parts of Russia: letters from Mrs Camilla Picton-Warlow of the Bread Fund for Prisoners of War, enclosing letters from her husband, Chief Petty Officer A J Picton-Warlow, and others.
• Bandsman A E Arnold, interned at Friedrichsfeld but working in Russia: Lord Tennyson forwards letter from him describing bad conditions.
• Summary of evidence relating to treatment of prisoners (with prisoners' names, in docket no. 148262).
• Conditions at Burg bei Magdeburg Camp, and Neisse Camp.
• Bread sent to prisoners.
• Punishment of non-commissioned officers at Langensalza Camp for refusal to volunteer to work.
• Typhus epidemic at Gardelegen Camp.
• Private William Boddington and other prisoners: trial set for 28 July 1916; US Embassy staff to be present; his appeal rejected.
• Treatment of prisoners in Sennelager camps and lazarets: press cutting from Daily Telegraph of 25 April 1916.
• Reports on camps at Minden, Wahn, Heidelburg (with photograph in docket no. 157501), Mannheim and Friedberg.
• Trial of 30 prisoners at Wittenberg charged with refusal to work.
• Private A Payne, 12th Lancers, and Private F Vincent, 18th Hussars, interned at Döberitz: confiscation of clothing sent to them by Cavalry Benefit Association.
• Prisoners interned at Hammelburg, Bavaria.
• Offer of assistance to prisoners by Salvation Army International HQ, London EC. supply of money by Foreign Office for relief of British prisoners in Russian territory.
• Examination of interned prisoners in Switzerland regarding their treatment in Germany.
• Shooting of William Devlin at Limburg Camp on 2 July 1916: report that Father Crotty, Catholic priest, buried him on 5 July 1916; information sent by Lady Dodds of British Red Cross Society.
• Food sent to prisoners at Giessen Camp.
• Report of Investigation regarding Parcels sent to Prisoners of War: with statistics and analyses.
• Parcels for prisoners at Güstrow Camp.
• Notification of illnesses of prisoners to family and friends: lifting of all restrictions.
• Publication of reports on prisoner camps in Germany: objection by US State Department; view that Germans would demand reports on Russian camps to be published, which would lead to Jewish-led anti-Russian campaign in the press.
• Inspection of German internment camps: British Government request that US Embassy carry out inspections once a month.
• Chief Petty Officer David Garrett, Chief Engine-room Artificer, of HMTBD Maori, interned at Langenmoor, Post Edewecht, Oldenburg: beaten, bayoneted and kicked by German soldiers until paralysed; he died 15 days later. Statements by Acting Sergeant George Frederick Mitchell, 7th Battalion Canadian Infantry, and Corporal Costin, 1st Monmouthshire Territorials.
• Weekly diet and pay-sheet of British prisoners in working camps.
• Captain A B W Allistone: report he was to be transferred to Wesel to serve sentence; query whether he was examined by Swiss Medical Commission with a view to transfer to Switzerland.
• British prisoners interned in Bavaria: letter to US Embassy, Berlin, from Venerable Archdeacon William E Nies, American clergyman, describing his visits to British prisoners.
• Corporal Harry Hogarth, sentenced to imprisonment for refusing to work in munitions factory: letter concerning him written by Corporal Dan A Simons, 2nd Canadian Battalion, a prisoner transferred to Switzerland.
• Treatment of Grimsby fishermen in Germany: Foreign Office holds to its opinion that publication of statements by a newspaper in Christiania (Oslo), Norway, would be undesirable.
• Captain Smith, East Lancashire Regiment, interned at Neisse: his request for transfer to a camp with better exercise facilities.
• Captain H W Fraser, 8th HQ Brigade, 3rd Division Canadian Expeditionary Force, interned in Germany: enquiry by Francis Bennett-Goldney.
• Employment of British prisoners in Westphalian mines.
• Sergeant-Major Richard Sturgis, Coldstream Guards, interned at Schneidemühl.
• Reports on camps at Scheuen (Celle), Soltau, Holzminden, Magdeburg, Schloss Celle, Stadtvogtei (Berlin) and Cologne (Köln).
• Shooting of Private Patrick Moran and Private William Devlin: discontinuation of judicial proceedings against sentry Vogt (who shot Moran) and principal guard Gefreiter Wust (who shot Devlin).
• Report on lazaret in the Alexandrinenstrasse, Berlin.
• 2nd Lieutenant H Shand Carter, interned at Bad Blenhorst: his complaints about conditions refuted by Hauptmann Draudt of the German War Office.
• British prisoners transferred to German-occupied territory in Russia: visit of Hauptmann Draudt of the German War Office to camps in Courland, Latvia: Libau, Wainoden, Angernsee, Mitau and Windau.
• Private Francis Armstrong, 13th Canadian Battalion, interned at Cellelager.

Code 1218 File 463 (papers 143824-169422).

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