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Germany: Prisoners, including: British prisoners in Germany, including: Food parcels...

Catalogue reference: FO 383/161

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FO 383/161
Date
1916
Description

Germany: Prisoners, including:

British prisoners in Germany, including:

  • Food parcels for prisoners serving punishment sentences.
  • Fireman Leech, Royal Naval Reserve: report that he brought smuggled letter from Private W O'Grady and gave evidence to the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War.
  • Working camps at Sud-Edewecht Moor, Bötzow, Stallupönen, Tollmingkehmen, Goldap, Pillkallen, Tublauken, Trakehnen and Hüsten.
  • Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War: publication of its reports, and appreciation of its work.
  • Private T J Morgan, 2nd King's Own Royal Lancashire Regiment, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in Germany.
  • Ill-treatment of British prisoners in Germany.
  • 2nd Lieutenant Rawson Shaw, Royal Flying Corps, removed from Crefeld Camp to Wesel Camp.
  • Reports on the lazarets at Ohrdruf and Alexandrinenstrasse, Berlin, and on the prisoners' camps at Langensalza, Dyrotz and Guben.
  • Complaints concerning non-delivery of food parcels at Mühlheim.
  • Reports on camps at Brandenburg; Grossenwedermoor, Schneverdingen; and Hameln.
  • Wounded British prisoners at the Eppendorfer Krankenhaus, Hamburg (list of names in docket no.253325).
  • Captain C E Jolliffe, Cheshire Regiment: his report on his treatment in Germany.
  • Major L Robins, Welch Regiment: his report on his treatment in Germany.
  • Statements concerning conditions in Güstrow prisoners' camp.
  • Use of police dogs in prisoners' camps.
  • Conditions at the 'Kaiser Friedrich' mine at Barop.
  • Supply of meat to British prisoners at Crefeld.
  • Officer prisoners' camps at Gnadenfrei and Burg bei Magdeburg.
  • Employment of prisoners in Germany on munitions work.
  • Clothing sent to prisoners at Döberitz and Friedrichsfeld.
  • Soltau Camp: desire for inspection.
  • Lieutenant J J Russell, Royal Sussex Regiment: his report on his treatment in Germany.
  • Captain A S Fraser, 1st Dorset Regiment: his report on his treatment in Germany.
  • Food parcels for prisoners undergoing punishment.
  • Lax regulations concerning the sale of alcohol to officer prisoners in German camps, leading to excessive drink consumption. Request by Army Council that German authorities adopt the stricter British regulations.
  • Unsatisfactory conditions at Mannheim Camp.
  • Treatment of prisoners in smaller camps in Germany.
  • Lieutenant J W Brewster, Royal Fusiliers: his report on his treatment in Germany.
  • Article by F W Hanson criticising Foreign Office's efforts on British prisoners' behalf: press cutting from The Morning Post of 27 December 1916.
  • Removal of tins from parcels sent to prisoners.
  • Food for officer prisoners in Germany.
  • Employment of prisoners at Munster.
  • Private William Lonsdale, West Riding Regiment, imprisoned at Spandau.

Mrs Susannah K Buck, divorced widow of a German-born alleged naturalised British subject: her detention in an 'insane asylum' in Germany and her request to regain British nationality and return to Britain.

Willi Federowski, German prisoner from East Africa interned at Ahmednagar, India.

Code 1218 Files 463 (papers 248200-end)-587.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Files 463 (pp.248200-end)-587.
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Subjects
Topics
Clothing
Internment
International
Labour
Mental illness
Army
Europe and Russia
Air Force
Weapons
Food and drink
Nationality
Navy
Africa
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2617404/

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