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

Germany: Prisoners, including:

British prisoners in Germany, including:

• Milk sent to prisoners.
• Reports on camps at Göttingen, Minden, Brandenburg, Frankfurt an der Oder, Cottbus (Sielow) and Cottbus (Merzdorf).
• Printed Report on Working Camps in Germany, by the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War, September 1916. With list of camps divided into: agriculture; factories; munitions; mines; miscellaneous.
• Parcels for prisoners: alleged removal of tobacco and cigarettes; fear of Archdeacon Nies that if his personal report should be pressed officially, his permission to visit camps might be revoked.
• Employment of prisoners on making munitions. Press cutting from Berliner Tageblatt of 19 September 1916.
• Bombadier F Folwell, 68th Battery Royal Field Artillery: his account of treatment of British prisoners in Germany.
• Employment of British non-commissioned officers in Germany.
• Camp inspections: Admiralty's request that US Embassy staff be asked to inspect internment camps in Courland, Latvia, Russia, in view of doubt cast on Captain Draudt's report; report by John B Jackson, of US Embassy staff, on Libau Camp, Latvia.
• Treatment of prisoners in Germany: reports by RAMC [Royal Army Medical Corps] officers of their experiences, by Lieutenant-Colonel P H Collingwood, RAMC, Major Lynch, RAMC, and Major F J Garland, RAMC.
• Private A Sloper, Wiltshire Regiment, interned at Göttingen, sentenced to 14 months imprisonment for refusing to work.
• Treatment of Grimsby fishermen at Sennelager in August 1914: Admiralty would like report published, but not if Foreign Office decide it is not in British interests.
• Decision by the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War that Captain Draudt's report on internment camps in German-occupied Russia should not be published until inspections of the camps by neutral authorities had been made.
• Central Prisoners of War Committee's proposal to establish a Bread Depot at Copenhagen to assist British prisoners in Germany.
• Private Alfred Ward, 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, interned at Schneidemühl: enquiries as to his welfare.
• Private Howland, 7th Battalion Canadians, sentenced to 12 years imprisonment: report that British Government unable to intervene.
• Treatment of Australian prisoners in Germany.
• Communications to prisoners removed to working camps should be sent to parent camps.
• Mail for officer prisoners at Burg Camp held up for disciplinary reasons.
• Captain Leopold Graham-Toler, Middlesex Regiment, and Lieutenant Colin Campbell, Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders, under arrest at Torgau.
• Supplies of clothing sent to British prisoners: German regulations concerning the issue of such clothing.
• Conditions at British officer prisoner camp at Fort 9, Ingolstadt.
• Treatment of David Garrett at Langenmoor Camp on 14 March 1916: evidence of Sub-Lieutenant Thomas G Bedwell, RNVR [Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve]; statements by Lance Corporal Jack F B FitzGerald, 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers, Trooper Edward Foley, Inniskilling Dragoons, Private Frank Lockley, 1st South Staffordshire Regiment, and Private John Lee, 1st Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
• Conditions in Germany, and condition of prisoners: interviews with two returned civilians, John William Schofield and Miss Charlotte Wroe.
• British non-commissioned officer prisoners: not to be put to work in prison camps unless voluntarily.
• Printed report on Döberitz Camp.
• Private P G Steggles, 1st West Yorkshire Regiment, interned at Friedrichsfeld: sentenced to 12 years imprisonment.
• 300 British prisoners newly arrived at Sprottau Camp, Silesia.
• Shooting of Privates Patrick Moran and William Devlin: German Government states their deaths were in no way connected with Sir Roger Casement and the Irish Question.
• Report on working camp at Husten.
• Report on officer prisoners' camps at Münden (Hanover), Clausthal, and Wildemann.
• Private James Watson, 15th Canadian Battalion, sentenced in Germany to 12 years imprisonment: enquiries as to his welfare.
• Question of publication of US reports on prisoners' camps in Germany.
• Food in camps: complaint by Mrs Frances E Forbes about the food allowed her husband and other officers interned at Crefeld Camp; she suggests the German prisoners in Britain should be treated the same.
• French allegation of barbarous treatment of British prisoners by Germans at Scheidauer & Giessen's factory at Duisburg.
• Swiss Medical Commission visit to Limburg Camp.

Code 1218 File 463 (papers 196643-223289).

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