Turkey. Prisoners, including: Sub-Lieutenant Geoffrey J F Fitzgerald, including:...

Turkey. Prisoners, including:

Sub-Lieutenant Geoffrey J F Fitzgerald, including:

• Efforts made by Monsignor Dolci to secure his repatriation.
• Terms of his parole.
• Transfer of Sub-Lieutenant Fitzgerald to Smyrna, and proposal for him to leave via Vourla.
• Criticism from the Admiralty regarding his release on parole.

Comments on a report by Mr Hornblower on the treatment of Jewish refugees in Turkey.

Article from The Daily Mail of 29 January 1916 on the conditions and treatment of French prisoners at Konia.

Mr D K Getchell: report on British, Russian and Montenegrin subjects resident in Chorum, with a list of names (in docket no.2546).

Monsignor Dolci: Christmas gifts to British and French prisoners at Afion Kara Hissar, with a list of names (in docket no.33588).

Treatment of British prisoners at Afion Kara Hissar, and arrangements for relief payments.

Sub-Lieutenant Geoffrey J F Fitzgerald: report on the experiences of himself and Lieutenant-Commander H H G D Stoker during their imprisonment in Turkey.

Report on the escape of three British officer prisoners from Afion Kara Hissar.

Transfer of prisoners to camps at Afion Kara Hissar and Sivas.

Request by Queen Alexandra for information on officers and men of the Norfolk Regiment interned in Turkey.

Extracts [in manuscript] from the Afion Kara Hissar Gazette, dated 8 and 13 May 1916, containing entries from various British prisoners.

Report by the Turkish authorities on the recapture of the three escaped naval officers, Lieutenant Commander H H G D Stoker, Lieutenant Commander A D Cochrane and Lieutenant E J Price, and the subsequent relaxation of restrictions on other prisoners.

Enquiries by Mrs Sarah Entwhistle and Mrs Mary Manning about their sons interned in Turkey; subsequent information that Lieutenant Entwhistle was interned at Afio Kara Hissar.

British Prisoners of War in Turkey: printed pamphlet produced by the War Prisoners' Fund giving information on members of British regiments interned in various camps.

Letters from Mr Edward R Stoever and Mr Hoffman Philip on conditions in the internment camps at Afion Kara Hissar and Sivas.

Arrangements for parcels to be sent to British prisoners via the American Embassy in Constantinople.

Lieutenant K D Yearsley: allegations that British prisoners were being employed under conditions of hardship on the railway near Angora.

Mr Hoffman Philip: report on affairs in Turkey, including the alleged massacre of Armenians employed in the construction of the Baghdad railway.

Lieutenant Basil Chamberlain: report on conditions at Angora.

Internment of Lieutenant Commander H H G D Stoker, Lieutenant Commander A D Cochrane and Lieutenant E J Pricein the military prison at Constantinople; allegations by the Turkish authorities that they had broken their parole in attempting to escape; request by the British authorities for information on the conditions of their detention.

Reverend V B Yearsley: enquiry about his brother, Lieutenant K D Yearsley and conditions of prisoners at Angora; subsequent information that Lieutenant Yearsley had been moved to Castamouni; enquiry by the Reverend Yearsley about conditions at Castamouni.

Recommendation for a visit by the International Red Cross to inspect prisoner of war camps in Turkey; proposal for a reciprocal agreement on inspections by the British and Turkish governments.

Captain A C H Trevor: request for money and clothing to be sent to him at Angora.

Appointment of Father Mullen as military chaplain to British Catholic prisoners in Turkey.

Sub-Lieutenant Geoffrey J F Fitzgerald: proposal for the cancellation of his parole in exchange for the release of a Turkish prisoner; agreement by the Admiralty of the terms of the proposal.

Lieutenant W Tozer: report of his death on board a steamer travelling from Kut-el-Amara to Baghdad.

Professor Henry Jones: enquiries about his son at Yozgad Camp.

Madame Vartaliti: enquiries about Mr Jeffery and Mr Smith, formerly in charge of the office of Messrs Thomas Cook and Son in Constantinople; subsequent information that Mr Jeffrey was attached to the company's Paris office, and Mr Smith was attached to the branch in Nice.

Agreement for the inspection of British prisoner of war camps in India, Burma and Egypt.

Enquiries about Major Julius, a prisoner at Yozgad.

Enquiries by the Australian Branch of the British Red Cross Society about the provision of financial relief to Australian prisoners in Turkey.

List supplied by the Turkish authorities of British and Indian prisoners (in docket no.193849).

Report on the condition of British prisoners captured at Kut-el Amara, with a (French language) memorandum from the Turkish authorities about the treatment of Turkish prisoners held by the French Government in Morocco.

Information from the American Embassy at Constantinople on British prisoners held in the vicinity of Mersina and in the hospital at Adana.

Parliamentary questions by Mr Malcolm on the location of internment camps for British prisoners in Turkey, the numbers of prisoners held, and on the progress of negotiations for their exchange.

Recommendation for the American authorities to inspect the camp at Yozgad.

Inspection of camps in Turkey by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Report from the American Embassy in Constantinople on conditions in various Turkish prisoner of war camps.

Death of Mrs Walker, following her transfer from Baghdad to Constantinople; notification of the information to her parents, Mr and Mrs J Ames.

Lieutenant Colonel C J Coventry: letter from Yozgad Camp containing information on the deaths of Lord Elcho and Captain Leslie Cheape at Katia.

Code 1244 File 5670 (to paper 213401).

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