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

FO 383/158

1916

Germany: Prisoners, including:

British prisoners in Germany, including:

• Bread sent to prisoners by Bureau de Secours at Berne, Switzerland: report by British Section of the Bureau dated 1 September 1916.
• Conditions at Bischofswerda Camp.
• Corporal Frederick E Smith, 1st Norfolk Regiment, imprisoned for three years at Cologne (Köln): enquiries by the Rev Lancelot Bird of Halesworth, Suffolk, on behalf of Corporal Smith's mother Emma Smith.
• Rations supplied to prisoners at Treuenbrietzen Camp.
• Treatment of prisoners: alleged poor conditions at Heestenmoor and Cottbus camps.
• Rifleman W Edward Stones, 12th Battalion Rifle Brigade, interned at Münster: non-receipt of parcels.
• Clothing sent to prisoners being withheld.
• RMLI [Royal Marine Light Infantry] prisoners: Bugler A Chappell, RMLI, repatriated to Britain; Private J Dilloway, RMLI, interned in Switzerland.
• Eric Surrey Dane, RNVR [Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve], transferred from Friedrichsfeld Camp to a working camp in the German-occupied area of Russia: enquiries by his family.
• Reports on Hameln Camp and Minden Camp.
• Five stewardesses of the steamship Brussels, interned at Holzminden: urgency of their repatriation.
• Private Alfred Ward, 2nd Royal Warwickshire Regiment, and Private F Healey, interned at Schneidemühl and Friedrichsfeld respectively.
• Private W Lonsdale: no further enquiries about him necessary; German Government refuse to transfer him from Spandau to Cologne (Köln).
• Guilford Austin, 2nd Welsh Regiment, imprisoned for refusal to work: although passed as unfit for work and due to go to Switzerland, made to complete sentence at Wittenberg; letter from his comrade Private Joseph Shine, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, to his father Captain T H Austin.
• Private F H Armstrong, Canadian Corps, interned at Cellelager.
• Treatment of Grimsby fishermen at Sennelager, near Paderborn, in 1914: narrative by Lieutenant E L Milner-Barry, RNVR, compiled from statements. Foreign Office agreement to Admiralty's wish to publish narrative, with rider that events occurred in 1914.
• Treatment of David Garrett at Langenmoor: Foreign Office wish to have German Government's reply concerning the case.
• Price of food at officers' camp at Stralsund (Dänholm).
• Reports on working camps at Bötzow, Pansin and Bokelah bei Bremervörde.
• Rifleman A L Mathieson, 8th County of London Regiment Post Office Rifles, interned at Münster: enquiry by his father Robert Mathieson.
• Chief Petty Officer Picton-Warlow: enquiry on his behalf as to whether prisoners interned in Russia will be there during winter months; enquiry by Mrs Camilla Picton-Warlow, of the Bread Fund for Prisoners of War, as to why bread is taking longer to reach Courland, Latvia, than other places.
• Wolverhampton Express and Star and J Burns Dumbell's Soldiers' and Prisoners' Comforts Fund: incomprehension concerning censorship by Press Bureau of prisoners' letters proposed for publication.
• Private A V Hannam, 48th Highlanders, interned at Göttingen: query concerning his receipt of boots sent by Miss J H Law.
• Parcels received by prisoners: reasons why some items might be missing.
• Food and clothing proposed to be sent to prisoners via Salvation Army.
• Reports on officers' camps at Fürstenberg and Burg bei Magdeburg.
• Private Richard Marsh: report of him being bitten by sentry's dog in Stendal Camp.
• Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War: their belief that report by Captain Draudt (of the German Ministry of War) on conditions in the camps in German-occupied Russia is neither fair nor true; extracts from prisoners' letters sent from Widau (Ventspils) and Libau, Latvia.
• Report on typhus epidemic at Gardelegen Camp (with plan, in docket no. 184367).
• Rations for British prisoners sent to German-occupied Russia.
• Parcels and letters for British prisoners interned at Brandenburg Camp.
• Clothing which British prisoners may receive.
• Trial of 26 British prisoners at Geestemünde on 2 September 1916 following a revolt at Bokelah Camp in May 1916. List of names (in docket no. 187320).
• Rifleman Alwyn Kerfoot Hughes, Queen's Westminster Rifles, interned at Minden Camp: enquiries as to his welfare by his employers, Turner & Co of London EC.
• Captain E S Parr, Leicestershire Regiment, interned at Burg and Fürstenberg.
• Sapper T Timmins, Royal Engineers, interned at Dülmen: receipt of parcels.
• Private T Carroll, West Riding Regiment, interned at Bralle working camp, dependent on Cellelager Camp.
• Able Seaman Nicholas P Cocking, late of HMS Rinaldo, interned in Germany: request by his father for him to be put with other British internees.
• Drummer A E Page, 9th East Surrey Regiment: report that he cannot be traced; but a Sergeant David Page, 9th East Surrey Regiment, is interned at Münster.
• Conditions in the coal mines at Moers, where British prisoners are employed.

Code 1218 File 463 (papers 169501-196278).

File 463 (pp.169501-196278).

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