Turkey: Prisoners, including: Financial arrangements for British prisoners in Turkey,...

FO 383/220

1916

Turkey: Prisoners, including:

Financial arrangements for British prisoners in Turkey, including:

• Provision of funds by the Joint War Finance Committee for British prisoners at Kut.
• Payment to Captain A I Dawes, a prisoner at Afion Kara Hissar.
• Payment to Major-General Townshend.
• Provision of money by the Indian Soldiers' Fund Committee for the assistance of Indian troops captured during the Mesopotamian campaign and at Kut-el-Amara.
• Cancellation of a remittance from the Consolidated Borax Limited Company to Mr George Vitalis in Constantinople.
• Payment by Lady Burghclere's Prisoners Fund to prisoners captured at Kut, including lists of captured members of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and the Hampshire RFA Howitzers Territorial Brigade (in docket no.131689).
• Remittance to the Reverend Robert Frew in Constantinople.
• Arrangements for the payment of funds by Mr W S Williams Thomas to his son, Major F S Williams Thomas, interned at Angora.
• Objections by the Swiss Government to inspection by British officials of returned card orders listing remittances to British prisoners in Turkey.
• Enquiry by the Colonial Office about the payment of direct remittances to British subjects, following arrangements made in connection with students from Johore resident in Beirut; confirmation that these arrangements would also apply to British subjects.
• Mr C J Calfopoulo: payment to his sister, Madame Dr A Xanthopolou, a Greek subject resident in Constantinople.
• Mr Hoffman Philip: proposal for the establishment of a current account, for use by the American embassies in London and Constantinople, to facilitate payments to British prisoners in Turkey.
• Mrs Gertrude L Barker: payment to her of dividends due from the Smyrna-Aidin Railway Company.
• Payment to Lance Corporal J T Mills of the 4th Hampshire Regiment, a prisoner in Baghdad.
• Mrs Johnson: payment to her husband, Mr George Alfred Johnson, a prisoner at Afion Kara Hissar.
• Supply of provisions for thirteen British officers interned at Afion Kara Hissar, including lists showing the officers' names and their requirements (in docket no.145580).
• Enquiry about obtaining receipts from British prisoners in Turkey for money order remittances.
• Mrs Emily Leete: payments made to her in Constantinople by the Western Assurance Company.
• Mr Charles Vinnicombe: stoppage of a payment to him in Constantinople from the London Joint Stock Bank.
• Mr H W Fraser: provision of funds for his cousin, Miss Augusta Keun, in Constantinople.
• Messrs Cox and Co: repayment from British Relief Funds in respect of cheques cashed by Captain J Yeats Brown.
• Mrs L van der Zee: enquiries following the non-receipt by her mother, Mrs Wilkinson, in Smyrna, of a remittance made through the American Embassy in London.
• Reverend John Trail: remittance to the Reverend Robert Frew in Constantinople.
• Mrs Ethel Simmons: payment to her son, Lieutenant David Simmons, taken prisoner at Kut.
• Payment to Madame Xanthopolou, a Greek subject resident in Constantinople; later assertion by Madame Xanthopolou that she was not in need of the money, and was in fact a Turkish subject.
• Mr Thomas Cave-Moyle: payment to the Reverend A J Wilcox, a prisoner in Angora.
• British Red Cross: payments to prisoners from the 43rd Regiment of the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry captured at Kut.
• Mrs G F C Delamain: remittance to her husband, Major-General W S Delamain.
• Authorisation for payments to be made to the Economic Cooperative Society in Constantinople in respect of cheques drawn by Lieutenant Sir Robert Paul and Lieutenant Arthur Tebbs.
• Mrs Palmer: payment to her husband, Lieutenant C E S Palmer, a prisoner at Afion Kara Hissar; issues of consular pay to Lieutenant Palmer.
• Cancellation of a payment authorised to Mr Charles Vinicombe at Constantinople; subsequent issue of a replacement cheque.
• List of British officers (in docket no.184198) interned at Angora who had requested money to be sent to them from their banks in the United Kingdom.
• Advance of money to various interned British officers by the American Embassy at Constantinople.
• Contribution of £300 from Lady Burghclere's Prisoners Fund for the benefit of British troops taken prisoner at Kut.
• Enquiries by the International Committee of the Red Cross about the issue of receipts to prisoners who had received financial remittances; confirmation by the Sublime Porte that receipts were held by the Ministry of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones; proposal for a reciprocal agreement between the British and Turkish Governments for the transmission of receipts for money order remittances sent to prisoners.
• Distribution of money from Lady Burghclere's Prisoners Fund to members of the Royal Field Artillery captured at Kut.
• Lady Victoria Herbert: expression of thanks to the American Embassy at Constantinople for assistance in the distribution of funds provided by her organisation to British prisoners.
• Arrangements via Thomas Cook and Son for monthly payments to be made to Major E F E Baines of the Kut Garrison.
• Transmission of funds to the Friends' Armenian Mission at Constantinople.
• Contribution by Lady Burghclere's Prisoners Fund to British prisoners in Mesopotamia.
• Provision of funds by the Governor of the Straits Settlements for students from Johore at Osmanieh College in Beirut.
• Rates of pay for British naval officers interned in Turkey.
• Memorandum by the Prisoners of War Department giving instructions to banks and army agents on methods of sending remittances to prisoners in Turkey and Bulgaria.
• Mr R J Harris: enquiries about financial arrangements regarding his son, Lieutenant J H Harris of the 1/4 Hampshire Regiment, interned at Kastamouni.
• Request for authorisation by the British Government of the payment of a pension to Surgeon General Patrick Murphy, formerly of the Indian Service; receipt of authorisation and arrangements for payment.
• Payments to Lieutenant W R Boyes at Yozgad and Major F L Footner at Afion Kara Hissar.
• Monthly salary and pension payments to Mr M Summers and Captain Palmer of the International Black Sea Life-Saving Service at Constantinople; claim for additional payments by Mr Summers; proposal for the transfer of the funds of the Service from London to a neutral country.
• Arrangements for the payment of a monthly pension to Miss Nellie Summers in Folkestone by the International Black Sea Life-Saving Service at Constantinople; enquiries by Miss Summers about the welfare of her family in Constantinople.

Code 1244 Files 464 (papers 127109-end)-498.

Files 464 (pp.127109-end)-498.

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