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Belgium: Prisoners, including: Princess Marie de Croy, sister of Prince Reginald...
Catalogue reference: FO 383/256
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This record is about the Belgium: Prisoners, including: Princess Marie de Croy, sister of Prince Reginald... dating from 1917 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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FO 383/256
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Date (When the record was created)
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1917
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Description (What the record is about)
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Belgium: Prisoners, including:
Princess Marie de Croy, sister of Prince Reginald de Croy, attaché to the Belgian Legation in London: imprisonment in Germany.
Miss Winifred A Wall: question of health and possible return to UK.
Martin Gallispia: proof of nationality; includes copy of birth certificate (in docket no.7288).
Mrs M A Vanderlinden (divorced wife of Martin Gallispia) in Brussels: includes British emergency passport application, with photograph (in docket no.179476).
Mr J Mitchell Chapman in Brussels: question of continuation of payment of allowances.
Miss Kathleen Waller, Irish citizen thought to be in a convent in Belgium: requests for information from her family in Dublin.
Miss Maud Butler: requests from her family for information about her welfare and whereabouts.
Miss Marie Therese Dunne: requests from her family for information; includes British emergency passport application, with photograph (in docket no.23752).
Madame St Stanislaus (Angela Sherwin), Irish-born nun of the Benedictine Convent at Oyghiem, Courtrai, Belgium: requests for information from her family in Dublin.
Mrs James Harry Green, in Brussels: request for information regarding her husband, an exchanged prisoner returned to England.
The late Peter Van der Nuck, in Brussels: question of pension paid.
George Cubbon: question of payments from British Relief Fund; includes British emergency passport application, with photograph (in docket no.111233).
Mrs Jeanne Pooley (née Miss J G E Dielman): question of payment of dividends alleged to be due to her.
German prisoners, captured by Belgians, and interned in England.
Miss Kate Maloney in Brussels: requests for information about her welfare and whereabouts; includes British emergency passport application (in name Catherine Moloney), with photograph (in docket no.30670).
Thomas Francis Woodhouse, in Boitsfort: request from his family for information about his welfare; question of relief fund payments and remittances.
Miss Francis Mary Tunnicliffe, in Bruges: requests for information about her welfare and whereabouts; question of relief fund payments and remittances.
British interests in Belgium.
Dependents of Canadian soldiers in Belgium.
Miss Margaret Elizabeth Linton, in Brussels: request from her sister Mrs H W Ainsworth of Blackpool, for information about her welfare; question of relief funds.
Mr J A Mattheissen, in Brussels: question of relief funds for his wife and children, and application for British passport.
Arthur Ernest Ward, and his wife Frances Mary Ward and daughter Judith Timmis Ward, in Bruges: request from her family for information about their welfare and whereabouts; application to return to UK; question of relief funds.
Mrs E J Shaw, domiciled in Brussels: request from her son, Reginald K Shaw, for information about her welfare; question of her personal effects and probate of her will following her death.
Code 1204 Files 1491-45356.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Files 1491-45356.
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Open Document, Open Description
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FO 383
Foreign Office: Prisoners of War and Aliens Department: General Correspondence from...
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