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Switzerland: Prisoners, including: Transfer of prisoners to Switzerland and return...

Catalogue reference: FO 383/218

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This record is about the Switzerland: Prisoners, including: Transfer of prisoners to Switzerland and return... 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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Reference
FO 383/218
Date
1916
Description

Switzerland: Prisoners, including:

Transfer of prisoners to Switzerland and return of escaped prisoners to Swiss authorities.

Sending of food parcels to prisoners of war in Switzerland and customs licences.

Lists of British prisoners interned in Switzerland.

Transfer of German and British prisoners to Switzerland.

Minutes of a conference held in Berne concerning the internment of prisoners of war.

Swiss Medical Commissions for prisoners.

Cost of sustenance etc. of interned prisoners of war in Switzerland.

Provision of surgical appliances for British officers and men in Switzerland.

Medical treatment of prisoners on war in Switzerland.

Visit of Lieutenant Colonel Jones to Switzerland.

Visits of relatives to interned soldiers in Switzerland including:

  • Request by Mrs A Wethered, of Staverton Vicarage, Daventry, to visit her brother in prisoner of war camp.

Import of consignment of tea for Russian prisoners by the Bureau de Secours aux Prisoniers de Guerre in Berne.

Work for interned soldiers in Switzerland.

Revised repatriation and internment schedules.

Refusal of German Government to allow Swiss Medical Mission to visit prison camp at Zossen and subsequent examination of British, Indian and Belgian troops.

Parole for British prisoners.

Army schoolmasters for British prisoners in Switzerland.

Code 1243 105838-205322.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
105838-205322.
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Public Record(s)
Language
English and French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Subjects
Topics
Internment
International
Trade and commerce
Europe and Russia
Food and drink
Medicine
Prisons
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2617461/

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