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Switzerland: Prisoners, including: Proposal to send certain categories of British...
Catalogue reference: FO 383/215
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FO 383/215
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Date (When the record was created)
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1916
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Switzerland: Prisoners, including:
Proposal to send certain categories of British prisoners to Switzerland.
Transfer of sick and wounded French and German prisoners to Switzerland, following an initiative from the Vatican.
Proposal for the establishment of a mutual agreement between the British and German Governments to send sick and wounded prisoners to Switzerland.
Agreement by the Swiss Government to receive British prisoners.
Confirmation that the prisoners would include officers and private soldiers.
Terms of the proposed agreement, and details of the injuries and medical conditions under which prisoners would be eligible.
Consent in principle by the French Government for the transport of German wounded prisoners across France, provided they were escorted by British of French soldiers.
Appointment of a British Red Cross representative at Berne.
Arrangements between France and Switzerland for the payment of French officers and men in Switzerland.
Major H R Charley and Lieutenant J R Wilkinson: applications for internment in a neutral country.
Printed copies (French language) of instructions provided for the Swiss Army on issues relating to internment.
Arrangements for the provision of clothing to prisoners by the British Red Cross.
Parliamentary questions on the progress of negotiations between the United Kingdom and Germany regarding the internment of prisoners in Switzerland, methods of selecting the prisoners, and categories of diseases for which internment was permissible, with an article from The Times of 25 April 1916.
Agreement by the German Government for the transfer of sick and wounded prisoners to Switzerland, under the same terms as the Franco-German arrangement.
Mr Theodore Hudson: request for consideration for a post in connection with the transfer and internment of prisoners in Switzerland.
Request for the Swiss Government to send doctors to the United Kingdom to examine interned German prisoners.
Confirmation that British prisoners would be interned at Chateau d'Oex.
Proposal for the transfer of prisoners to begin on 17 May 1916.
Appointment of Lieutenant Colonel Picot as officer in charge of the British prisoners in Switzerland.
Code 1243 File 1990 (to paper 91837).
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File 1990 (to pp. 91837).
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Open Document, Open Description
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