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Germany: Prisoners, including: Capture of the Great Eastern Railway Harwich mail...
Catalogue reference: FO 383/195
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This record is about the Germany: Prisoners, including: Capture of the Great Eastern Railway Harwich mail... 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 383/195
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1916
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Description (What the record is about)
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Germany: Prisoners, including:
Capture of the Great Eastern Railway Harwich mail steamship Brussels on 23 June 1916: officers and crew interned at Ruhleben; query as to whereabouts of five stewardesses; (list of crew, with grades and addresses, in docket no.139424.); Captain Charles Algernon Fryatt, Master of the Brussels, tried by Court Martial at Ghent for ramming a German submarine on 28 March 1915; found guilty and shot at Bruges on 27 July 1916; expressions of abhorrence and proposals for reaction.
Fritz Petzel, Feldwebel of the Cameroons Force, imprisoned because his native servant was in possession of soft-nosed bullets.
Oberleutnant Gerhard von Wenckstern, removed from Danish motorship California.
Reverend J Richards of Bury, Lancashire, and Mrs S Blake of Christchurch, Hampshire: letters forwarded to them by Foreign Office from the US Embassy, Berlin: point made that enquiries concerning prisoners should be made through War Office and not to foreign representatives except through Foreign Office.
Punishment of British prisoners in Schneidemühl Camp.
Gustav Herz, interned at Alexandra Palace: his request to be transferred to France, or a neutral country, endorsed by Cardinal Gasparri; correspondence referred to French Government.
Enemy alien civilians in British Honduras.
Lieutenant Koch: his escape from an interned German ship.
International Red Cross Bureau and Agency for Prisoners of War, Geneva: used as a means of transmitting correspondence and money to persons in Turkey and Germany.
Edwin Cuno Kayser, German subject interned at Alexandra Palace, involved in a patent case in the USA.
Oskar Faber, German subject: his reported death in South West Africa.
Code 1218 Files 123628-127198.
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- Files 123628-127198.
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