Germany: Prisoners, including: Relief for British subjects in Luxembourg, including:...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Relief for British subjects in Luxembourg, including:

• Mr J Harvey: enquiry regarding the whereabouts and welfare of his son, Mr Richard Harvey.
• Details of various British subjects whose welfare was being investigated by the British authorities.
• Mr William E Pimm: enquiry regarding his son, Henry Pimm.
• Details provided by the American Embassy on various British subjects.
• Transfer of money from the British Relief Fund for use in providing assistance to British subjects.
• Approval of a payment to the family of Lazarus Altschuler.

Matters relating to the will of Mrs Mary Milroy Dean, who died on 16 December 1915 at Baden-Baden, including:

• Copies of the certificate of death and the codicil to the will (in docket no. 52049).
• Request for the production by the German Government of certain legal documents required by the solicitors for Mrs Dean's executors.

Undertaking by the Foreign Office for a precedent to be established with the German Government relating to the production of legal documents.

Deaths of Mr William Lister and Mr Henry Leviska while interned in Germany, including:

• Schedules (in German) containing information relating to Mr Lister and Mr Leviska.
• Arrangements for the transfer of the personal effects of Mr Lister and Mr Leviska to their next of kin in Britain.

Mr Allen Gordon Strawbridge: enquiries about his health and welfare, while interned in the military camp at Giessen, and later in Stadtvogtei, and requests for his transfer to the civilian camp at Ruhleben.

Siegmund Fielder, a German naturalised in Australia: release from Ruhleben Camp, and request to be allowed to return to Australia.

Mr William Beattie: request for papers to prove his period of internment in Ruhleben Camp; includes an interview with Mr Beattie printed in The People's Journal of 19 February, 1916.

Enquiries and investigations into reports of the non-delivery of parcels to Ruhleben, Magdeburg, Holzminden and other German prisoner of war camps, including:

• Mr C Dahm: enquiry concerning parcels addressed to his son, Mr Julius Dahm, at Ruhleben, by himself and the Dutch Red Cross; claim by the Dutch Red Cross that all parcels had been safely delivered.
• Mr Molyneux: enquiry concerning his son, Mr H Molyneux at Ruhleben.
• Mr Harold Atkinson: enquiry on behalf of a friend in Ruhleben
• Mrs A Longhurst: enquiry concerning her husband at Ruhleben.
• Prisoners of War Help Committee: statement regarding complaints received from German prisoner of war camps.
• Mrs Ada Brundell: enquiry about her brothers, Frederick and Harry Stafford at Ruhleben.
• Mr Ward: enquiry about his son, Henry Gordon Ward, in Ruhleben.
• Miss Selby: enquiry about Otto Schneider, a naturalised English subject, interned in Germany.
• Mr Robert Lowe: enquiry about his son, Fred Lowe, interned at Ruhleben.
• Mary Smith-Dampier: enquiry regarding her brother, the Reverend H M Williams, in Ruhleben; authorisation for her to send weekly parcels.
• Mrs Schofield: enquiry about her husband in Ruhleben.
• Mr Arthur E Dodd: enquiries about the shipment of apples to him in Döberitz; further information provide by Mr Stearn; advice to the American Express Company to delay this and further shipments; permission for the release of the shipments, following receipt of a letter from Mr Dodd.
• Mrs R A Forrest: request for information regarding Mr Horace G Hunt.
• Mr J Jacobs: request for permission to send shoe leather to his son in Ruhleben.
• Mr Schneider: enquiries about his son, Otto Schneider, in Ruhleben.
• Mr William Cecil Marshall and Mrs Alice Crewdon: allegations of parcels being tampered with at Ruhleben.
• Mr Robert Lynn: allegations in a postcard from Ruhleben about the denial of food to certain prisoners.
• Mr S J Heapy: enquiry about his son, Sam Heapy, in Ruhleben.
• Mr A Knight Croad: enquiry about his son at Ruhleben.
• Mrs Harvey of the Harrow Help Society: request for relief funds for Mr White and Mr Kumens; suggestion that she should contact the Prisoners of War Help Committee..
• Mrs McCormack: enquiry about her son, Cyril McCormack, in Ruhleben, and request for him to be considered in a future exchange of prisoners.
• Mr William Crosier: report by his son in Ruhleben of prisoners existing on emergency rations.
• American Express Company: report on the incidences of interference with parcels and on action taken; intention to refund customers if compensation received from German raiilway companies.
• Mrs Edith Strachan: information supplied by her husband, Mr Lionel Strachan, about the safe receipt of parcels in Ruhleben.
• Mrs Florence E Hall, Secretary of the Sailor Prisoners of War Society: enquiry about lists of released prisoners and those in need of assistance.
• Mr M W Simms: allegations by Herdmans Limited of the non-delivery of parcels to him.
• Mr Charles Gardener: request for permission to send material for making leather goods to Mr Frank Willmot at Ruhleben; authorisation for despatch of material up to the value of £25 to be sent, and for a further consignment.
• Mr Charles Balfour: authorisation for him to send solidified paraffin to his son Mr John Balfour at Ruhleben.
• Mr H E Thomas: advice for him to continue to send regular parcels to Mr Arthur J Thomas at Ruhleben, pending the release of prisoners.
• Mrs Brown: permission for her to send flannel belts to her husband, Mr William Brown, at Ruhleben.
• Mr R C Winter: advice for him to continue to send regular parcels to his son at Ruhleben, pending the release of prisoners.
• Mr D Berger: enquiry about his son, Mr George Berger, at Ruhleben.

Mrs M Billham: grant of permission for her to return to the United Kingdom from Germany, following a request by her sister, Mrs Fannie Conrad; enquiry about the return of her possessions via Switzerland.

Code 1218 Files 30522-101238.

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