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Germany: Prisoners, including: Expenses of surgical treatment of German prisoners...

Catalogue reference: FO 383/190

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FO 383/190

Date

1916

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Germany: Prisoners, including:

Expenses of surgical treatment of German prisoners in Britain.

Streetz, German subject interned at Douglas Aliens' Camp, Isle of Man: his request that his accounts be passed to Berlin so his wife can be paid.

Captain Robin Grey, British subject interned in Germany: letters to Admiral Lord Charles Beresford and General Gordon VC; delay in parcels and correspondence reaching prisoners in Germany because of Censor's need to frustrate illicit communications.

Doctor Werner, German subject released from internment in Australia: request for safe conduct for passage to Germany.

Albert Head, interned at Ruhleben: his wife's financial position.

Hermann Kaltenpoth, interned at Stobs Camp, near Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland: his request for repatriation.

Treatment of British prisoners in Germany.

Press statements by British prisoners returning from Germany.

W G Haigh, late British Proconsul at Ghent, Belgium: his death at Wittenberg Camp of typhoid fever; enquiry why he was interned at Wittenberg rather than at Ruhleben.

Professor William H E Tilly, British civilian prisoner released from Ruhleben Camp: Home Office's opinion that he should be encouraged to come to Britain where his activities and suspected pro-German sympathies could be kept under observation.

British prisoners alleged to have been captured near Loos.

Mrs Minna Carolina Redottée: her payments to be secured by exchange of letters between the Dynamit-Aktien-Gesellschaft of Hamburg and the British South African Explosives Company Ltd of London.

Company Sergeant Major John Petri Rush: complaint about compulsory sanitary practices at Güstrow (removal of public hair).

Izak Samson, Dutch subject, correspondent of several Dutch newspapers: request for permission to visit British prisoner camps; given permission to visit Alexandra Palace, Dorchester and Eastcote.

Parcels received from Germany in a prisoner camp at Islington, London.

Fähnrich Ernst von Schweinichen, German subject interned at Stobs Camp: sentenced to imprisonment in Woking Detention Barracks for attempting to escape.

Proposed exchange of interned civilian prisoners in Britain and Germany.

Supply of sugar to prisoners in Germany.

Release of prisoners for employment in relief projects.

Jules Steiger, of Alsace, interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man.

Code 1218 Files 85361-95325.

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Files 85361-95325.

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Internment
International
Labour
Europe and Russia
Weapons
Disease
Food and drink
Nationality
Navy
Operations, battles and campaigns
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