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Germany: Prisoners, including: Mrs Prince, British subject by marriage, residing...

Catalogue reference: FO 383/194

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FO 383/194
Date
1916
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Germany: Prisoners, including:

Mrs Prince, British subject by marriage, residing at Jena, Germany: her request that her husband in Santiago, Chile, remits money for maintenance of herself and children; he will do so if she leaves her relatives in Germany and joins him in Chile.

Mrs Field, widow of Captain Field, Royal Army Medical Corps, who died of typhus at Wittenberg Camp: her claim for a full war pension; granted.

Proposed repatriation of German doctors, missionaries and aged seamen interned at Alexandra Palace, London.

A Lippert, interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man: his objection to his son being enlisted into the British Army for foreign service; son transferred to the Special Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment, to which all soldiers of enemy alien parentage were now sent.

Edward Franz Marcus Stahl, of Altona, Hamburg: taken from St Lucia and interned in military camp, Trinidad.

Alleged conditions of imprisonment of German subjects at Brixton: report that German allegations were baseless; three prisoners, including Franz Schlechter, sentenced for soliciting for purposes of sodomy; US Embassy staff welcome to inspect.

Baron von Bissing, interned at Islington, London: his request to regularly visit a swimming bath; refused.

Proposed transfer of wounded prisoners to neutral countries.

Gustav Gebhardt, interned at Stobs, near Hawick, Roxburghshire: enquiry after him.

Indian Soldiers' Fund Committee: request that US Embassy maintains a complete list of Indian prisoners.

Proposed repatriation of invalid German civilian prisoners.

Status and treatment of interned ships' officers and captains.

Captain E M Douglas, the Welsh Regiment, interned at Burg bei Magdeburg: his request that German War Office be informed of his promotion to captain, for increase of his allowance.

Major Lord Crichton, Royal Horse Guards, killed near Lille in 1914: re-interment of his body at cemetery of Werwich Nord.

Ernest Maxse, HM Consul General, Rotterdam, to forward from German Consul musical instruments and band parts for German band in Isle of Wight prisoner camp.

Remuneration of German clergymen in former German South West Africa.

Judgment passed on the Lynn & Hamburg Steamship Co Ltd: legal interests and representation of its chief shareholder, Hermann Dammeyer; methods of conducting correspondence.

Johannes Smuts, interned at Ruhleben: remittances to be sent to him.

Treatment by Germans of the crew of the trawler Horus of Grimsby, Lincolnshire: master and crew interned at Brandenburg, Germany; efforts to secure release of David Dudding and George Peacock, both aged over 55 years.

Escape of prisoners from Amherst Camp, Canada: includes printed copies of The Senate Debates, Sixth Session, Twelfth Parliament, Ottawa, 4 and 8 May 1916.

Miss Emma Wagener, resident in London: wish of her mother for her to return to Germany; but Miss Wagener considers it inadvisable.

Bulky parcels for German prisoners in the British colonies.

Brigadier General Victor Williams, 3rd Canadian Division: enquiry as to his whereabouts and welfare.

Oberleutnant Lossnitzer, interned at Swakopmund, South West Africa: desires exchange or transfer to Britain on grounds of health; refused.

Karl Gärtner, interned at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield: his petition may be forwarded to the German Government through the US Embassy at Berlin.

Würtemberg War Exhibition at Stüttgart: German request for material dealing with treatment of German prisoners in England.

Sale by auction of building containing the archives of the German Consulate General at Singapore.

Prince Adolf zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg, formerly Attaché at the German Embassy in London: transmission of his household effects and personal goods to Germany.

Liability for service in British Army of sons of interned Germans.

Bartholomaus Eid, interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man: his objection to his son being enlisted into the British Army.

Educational facilities for interned prisoners.

Code 1218 Files 111246-122723.

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Files 111246-122723.
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