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Germany: Prisoners, including: German prisoners in British or British Empire custody,...

Catalogue reference: FO 383/162

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This record is about the Germany: Prisoners, including: German prisoners in British or British Empire custody,... dating from 1916 in the series Foreign Office: Prisoners of War and Aliens Department: General Correspondence from.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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FO 383/162
Date
1916
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Germany: Prisoners, including:

German prisoners in British or British Empire custody, including:

  • German prisoners at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield: delay in their receipt of correspondence.
  • Disciplinary measures taken at Dorchester Camp.
  • Memorandum on Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man.
  • Flogging of Germans at Rabaul, New Britain, in punishment for assaulting the Reverend Dr Cox.
  • Internment camp at Tenom, North Borneo.
  • August Arndt and Adolf Kempe, sentenced for escaping.
  • Alleged ill-treatment of German women and children in Britain: detailed report in tabular form by Home Office regarding each allegation.
  • Postal arrangements for prisoners.
  • Lieutenant Dix and Lieutenant Nothnagel: return of their swords.
  • Transfer of German prisoners and interned civilians from Hong Kong to Australia.
  • Interned Germans at Alexandra Palace, London.
  • Report by US Embassy staff on their visit to the four camps for civilian prisoners at Knockaloe, Isle of Man.
  • Treatment of Germans brought to Britain from Africa.
  • Reports on internment camps at Douglas, Isle of Man, and at Stobs, near Hawick, Roxburghshire.
  • Request for free parcel postage to prisoners.
  • Conditions in prisoners' camps at Stratford, London, and in Malta.
  • Postal regulations for prisoners interned in South West Africa.
  • Flogging of Germans at the prisoners' camp at Torrens Island, South Australia.
  • Officer prisoners' camps at Holyport, Berkshire, and Handforth, Cheshire.
  • Alleged ill-treatment of German prisoners in Canada; reports on camps.
  • Reports on prisoners' camps at Eastcote, Northamptonshire; Leigh, Lancashire; and Cornwallis Road, Upper Holloway, London.
  • Prisoners' camps in India at Ahmednagar and Belgaum.
  • Request by the Reverend A O T Hellerström to visit prisoners' camps.
  • International Committee of the Red Cross, printed report (in French) of its representatives' visits to camps at Dorchester, Donington Hall, Frith Hill, Handforth, Leigh, Knockaloe and Douglas.
  • Hospital for wounded prisoners at Dartford, Kent.
  • Gosch Loy Ehlers, interned at Oldcastle Camp, County Meath, Ireland.

Code 1218 File 591 (to paper 58828).

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
File 591 (to pp.58828).
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Internment
International
Asia
Europe and Russia
Weapons
Australia and Pacific
Ireland
Aid and development
Children
Americas
Sex and gender
Africa
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2617405/

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