Germany: Prisoners, including: British prisoners in Germany, including: Report on...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

British prisoners in Germany, including:

• Report on Güstrow Camp.
• Officer prisoners' camps at Niesse (Silesia) and Gnadenfrei: report that at the latter one officer had committed suicide and three had gone mad.
• Prisoner named McAdams, Highland Light Infantry, stabbed with bayonet at Quedlinburg working camp on 15 October 1916.
• Tuberculosis in prisoners' camps: press cutting from Manchester Evening News of 2 November 1916.
• Publication of report on Göttingen Camp.
• Visits to prisoners' camps in Germany by US representatives, and publication of such reports.
• Captain Barnardo Allistone, Middlesex Regiment: his letter to US Ambassador in Berlin complaining that he is in prison at Wesel despite being passed to go to Switzerland by doctors; Germans are willing to send him if Britain will send Ensign von Schweinichen.
• Captain Victor D O Logan, interned at Münden: request for surgical attention for him.
• Corporal Harry Hogarth and others, sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for refusal to obey orders.
• Bread and other parcels for prisoners undergoing punishment.
• Report by Clive Morrison Bell, MP, on his visits to camps at Giessen and Heidelberg.
• Depositions of two French non-commissioned officers, Sergeant Laborderie and Corporal Arthur Cointrel, concerning bayoneting of British prisoner in Münster Camp.
• 2nd Lieutenant A C Collier, Royal Flying Corps, imprisoned for 12 months at Wesel.
• Reports on camps at Ohrdruf, Erfurt and Langensalza.
• Lance Corporal George Jones, Northumberland Fusiliers, interned at Sennelager: complaints to wife about bad food and harsh treatment forwarded by John M Frost, Mayor of Chester.
• Report by Colonel Jackson (senior British officer interned in Friedberg) on his inspection with Major Morrison-Bell, MP, of Limburg, Giessen and Heidelberg camps.
• Prisoner named Logan: his death on 26 May 1916 at Bokelah Camp.
• Working camps at Bötzow, Coswig, Bergwitz, Mückenberg and Süd-Edewechter-Moor (Oldenburg).
• Drinking water supplied to prisoners in camps in Courland, Latvia, Russia.
• Treatment of British prisoners in Germany: postcards sent from Soltau in secret writing, disclosing bad conditions.
• Murder by Germans of Chief Petty Officer David Garrett, and treatment of badly wounded prisoners at Langenmoor Camp: German note verbale states that the judicial enquiry found no grounds for proceeding against the German guards; and of 35 prisoners unfit for work 26 were sent back to parent camp at Soltau.
• Farrier Sergeant A Kennedy, North Irish Horse, confined in the Strafanstalt, Rheinbach, Germany.
• Langenmoor, Oldenburg camp: report on prisoners' camp at Langenmoor, Oldenburg, visited on 22 October 1916 by Guy Ayrault and Lithgow Osborne of US Embassy staff; Foreign Office notes that there is no reference to David Garrett's death; and that Osborne is reputed to have marked German sympathies.
• Sentences passed on prisoners: justification given by German authorities for heavy sentences imposed.
• Captain H N Fraser, Canadian Expeditionary Force, interned at Gütersloh.
• Private Leslie Stephens, 10th Essex Regiment, interned at Hameln: non-receipt of clothing sent to him.
• Colonel Earle's opinion of Captain Morrison Bell (both prisoners in Germany).
• Private W O'Grady, 4th Middlesex Regiment, imprisoned at Soltau Camp: his smuggled letter to his father describes bad conditions and mentions the bayoneting to death of Garrett.
• Petty Officer G F Wainwright, interned at Friedrichsfeld: receipt of parcels.
• Conditions in prison at Anrath, near Crefeld.
• Removal of tinned goods from parcels sent to prisoners.
• Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War forwards detailed statements of prisoners exchanged from Germany who were sentenced to long periods of imprisonment.
• Private Alfred Ward, 2nd Royal Warwickshire Regiment, imprisoned at Schneidemühl then at Cologne (Köln).
• British officers interned at Würtzburg request visit from US Embassy staff.
• Private G Woodruff, West Yorkshire Regiment, interned at Döberitz: his complaint to US Ambassador about being declared fit for work when ill; German doctors' refutation of his complaint.
• British officers imprisoned at Torgau for attempting to escape from Fort Brückenkopf, Torgau.
• Report on Working Camps in Germany, by the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War: Army Council have considered its revisions but do not desire the report's publication.
• Sergeant Allan Spence, 2nd Scots Guards, interned at Merseburg: complaints of interference with parcels and ill-treatment of prisoners.
• Employment of British prisoners in the making of German munitions.
• Reports on officer prisoners' camps at Villingen and Friedberg.

Code 1218 File 463 (papers 223296-248187).

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