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

FO 383/164

1916

Germany: Prisoners, including:

German prisoners in British or British Empire custody, including:

• Sentences passed on German prisoners at Pietermaritzburg, Union of South Africa. Ration scale at Pietermaritzburg Camp.
• Reports on internment camps at Alexandra Palace, London; Frith Hill, near Frimley, Surrey; Leigh, Lancashire; Dorchester; and Donington Hall, Derbyshire.
• Internment camp at Knockaloe, Isle of Man: adverse German press cuttings from Kölnische Zeitung of 16 July 1916 and National Zeitung of 19 July 1916. Reports by US Embassy officials on their visits from 31 August to 6 September 1916 and on 28 and 29 November 1916 (the latter including the Isle of Man Insane Asylum and the Private General Hospital, Isle of Man).
• Detention barracks at Trial Bay, New South Wales, Australia.
• Otto Mueller: his alleged ill-treatment while detained in Canada.
• Printed despatch from the Government of India concerning the treatment of German subjects at Ahmednagar Camp.
• Lieutenant Thomas von Grote: his sentence remitted by the Army Council; returned to internment in the officers' camp at Holyport, Berkshire.
• Camp for civilian prisoners at Glendairy, Barbados, West Indies.
• Labour of German prisoners in Canada.
• Treatment of German prisoners in Jamaica and South Australia.
• Reports on working camps at Lentran, Inverness-shire; Nethybridge, Inverness-shire; Kinlochleven, Argyllshire; Redesdale, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland; Healeyfield, Castleside, Durham; Newlandside, Stanhope, Durham.
• Treatment of German soldiers serving punishment sentences.
• Report on place of internment for alien civilians at Gainsborough Road, Hackney Wick, London.
• Housing of German prisoners in Britain: insistence by German Government that barracks replace tents, otherwise reprisals to be taken.
• Medical and dental treatment of prisoners in Canada.
• Internment camp at Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.
• Treatment of German prisoners in hospitals in Britain.
• Restrictions on visitors' interviews at Liverpool Camp, New South Wales, Australia.
• Report on outbreak of gastro-intestinal disorder at Lower Southern Hospital at Dartford, Kent; US Embassy visits to hospitals at Dartford and Devonport requested.
• Flogging of Germans at Rabaul, New Britain.
• Gefreiter Julius Koch and Unteroffizier Heinrich Brinkmann: their complaints about conditions of punishment for attempting to escape refuted by War Office.
• Internment camp at Torrens Island, South Australia.

Code 1218 File 591 (papers 180902-end).

File 591 (pp.180902-end).

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