Balkans: Prisoners, including: Correspondence about lists of Bulgarian prisoners...

FO 383/254

1917

Balkans: Prisoners, including:

Correspondence about lists of Bulgarian prisoners held in the United Kingdom.

Confirmation of the death of Lance Corporal T Auckland at the Hungarian Hospital (Antin I) in Sofia.

Enquiries regarding the British subjects Mrs Walter Muston and Mr Alexander Romanes in Romania.

Approval by the Bulgarian Government for the construction of special buildings by representatives of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) at various camps in Bulgaria, for the benefit of the prisoners.

Expression of thanks from the British Government to Mr Christian Phildius, General Secretary of the YMCA.

Transfer of funds to the American Consul-General in Sofia for the relief of British prisoners.

Miss K Clow: request for the transmission of a letter to Mr W E Benbow, interned at Sliven.

Details, with a partial list (in docket no.139392) of British civilians interned in Bulgaria.

Mr John Middleton: enquiry about his wife, Mrs Mary Middleton, and his son, John Middleton, resident at Ploesti, Romania.

Proposal by the Austro-Hungarian Government for a reciprocal agreement with the British Government for the free transit through Austria-Hungary of gifts and relief supplies for prisoners in Bulgaria and Turkey.

Enquiry into the internment of Andreas Lysimachos Calokerinos in Malta; subsequent release of Mr Calokerinos and his transfer to Crete.

Mrs Lily Blakesley: arrangements for regular remittances to be sent to her husband, Lieutenant Reginald George Blakesley, interned at Philippopolis.

Mrs H K Oldham: enquiry about her brother, Mr George Wallington Fountaine, interned at Haskova, Bulgaria; authorisation for remittances to be sent to him by the British American Tobacco Company Limited in London.

Mr P S Allen of Merton College, Oxford: permission for him to send educational books to Lieutenant Julius Halasz, a Hungarian prisoner in Romania.

Confirmation of the death of Private F Dodds in a hospital in Nish, Serbia.

Remittances from the Irish Women's Association to prisoners from Irish regiments interned in Bulgaria.

Hampshire Regiment Prisoners of War Help Fund: payments to members of the Hampshire Regiment interned in Bulgaria (with a list of the soldiers' names in docket nos.156632 and 229654).

Report that five members of the British Red Cross Society (names in docket no.159376) were missing in Romania.

Major Alan Burgoyne MP: enquiries about Lieutenant Arthur Leslie Moore, presumed to be interned in Bulgaria; confirmation that Lieutenant Moore was in the camp at Phillipopolis, and was in good health.

Mr Charles L P Hayden: request for information about Miss L M Hayden, last heard of at Piatri Nemti, Moldavia.

Mrs E M Hawley: enquiry about the reported repatriation of her daughter, Sister Hilda Hawley of the British Red Cross, from Bulgaria.

Mrs E B Scruby: enquiry about the welfare of her daughter, Miss Frances Maude Scruby, a governess at Braila, Romania.

Christos Giogiou, interned in Malta: request for assistance to be provided to his family in Salonika.

Correspondence about a proposed reciprocal agreement between the Bulgarian and British governments for the repatriation of civilian prisoners.

Delays in the transmission of despatches regarding prisoners from the American Embassy in Sofia.

Transmission of letters to and from Mr Frederick Pitt, interned at Kostenetz in Bulgaria.

Proposal for the appointment of a Dutch military officer to inspect camps in Macedonia where German prisoners were interned.

Request by the Bulgarian authorities for information on the whereabouts of Captain Savva Naidenoff of the Bulgarian Army.

Authorisation by the German Government for payments to be made to German civilians interned in camps in Salonika; information from the War Office that no German civilians were interned at Salonika.

Memorandum on the hand-over of Romanian prisoners to the Bulgarian authorities.

Memorandum on the treatment of interned Allied and Bulgarian prisoners.

Expression of thanks from the British Government to the Sisters of St Joseph's School in Sofia for their commemoration of the deaths of British and French prisoners at the municipal cemetery at Sofia.

Mr Thomas Marsh: remittance to his son, Observer Sub-Lieutenant Leslie Marsh, interned at Philippopolis.

Code 1219 Files 29669-236136.

Files 29669-236136.

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