Belgium: Prisoners, including: Mr Humphrey Page in Bruges: arrangements for payment...

FO 383/260

1917

Belgium: Prisoners, including:

Mr Humphrey Page in Bruges: arrangements for payment of his annuity from the Indian Civil Service.

Mrs Marie Smith at Forest, near Brussels: application for an emergency British passport (form with photograph in docket no.185954).

Mr Richard William Smith: application for an emergency British passport (form (without photograph) in docket no.185954), and questions about the legality of his marriage to Mr Marie Smith.

Payments by the Colonial and Continental Church Society to the Reverend H S T Gahan at Brussels, and to the Reverends D K Moore and H Fishe at Lille, and enquiries about their welfare.

Miss M Pugh (known as Madame Georgina), from the Convent 'Dames de Marie' in Brussels: enquiries about the welfare of her sister, Mrs Esther Redman, in England.

Mr Oswald Evans in Brussels: transmission of a message to his father, Mr William Evans, in South Wales; authorisation for Mr Evans to send remittances to his son.

Mrs Georgina Isabelle Hopper at Casteau: application for an emergency British passport (form with photograph in docket no.192058).

Arrest and imprisonment of Mr E Johnson at Antwerp.

Mrs F E Moorat, resident at Uccle near Brussels: request for money to be sent to her by Mrs E Moorat in England.

Miss Susan K B Boyd at Bruges: request for money to be sent to her from her bank in England.

Mrs Graham in London: attempts to trace her three daughters, Marie, Mayday and Kathleen who were in the Convent de la Retraite in Bruges at the outbreak of the war.

Mrs Gertrude Browne in Brussels: arrangements for remittances to be sent to her by the Reverend R C Browne and Mr F H Anderson; information that Mr Anderson had not received official authority to send remittances to her.

Mrs L Wilkinson in Brussels: request for payment of her pension from Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping.

Report from the Netherlands Legation in Brussels on the employment of a number of British prisoners at Melles, near Tournai, including:

• Report by the German authorities that the prisoners were in good health and were satisfied with their treatment.
• Request for a list of names of the prisoners, and for an inspection of the camp to be permitted.

Mrs Jones in Brussels: request for information about her son, Mr Ernest Jones, from Mrs H O Hartley in England.

Sir James Agg Gardner: enquiries about the provision of relief to British subjects in the Netherlands.

Miss Florence Brown at Namur: application for an emergency British passport (form with photograph in docket no.216822).

Mr Frederick Bufton Pratt, near Brussels: request for financial assistance from his father, Mr Benjamin Pratt, in England.

Arrest of Mrs Dielvart (née Mary D Yeo) and her sister, Mrs Alfred James (née Annie Yeo) by the German police in Brussels.

Recapture of Private Rawlinson, an escaped British prisoners, by the German police, and message to his mother that he was in good health.

Mr W English in Hanna, Alberta, Canada: arrangements by the Union Bank of Canada on his behalf for sending payments to Mr Henry English and Madame J English in Bruges.

Mr G M Hocken: request for authority to send money to his sister, Madame Florent Claes, in Brussels.

Mrs E Block: request for permission to send clothing to her parents in Brussels.

Miss Louisa Bagge: request for permission to send medicine to her brother in Brussels.

Mr Charles Henry Watkins at Edeghem near Antwerp: application for an emergency British passport (form with photograph, with a copy of the passport issued to him, in docket no.225233)

Mrs Theodora J Watkins-Janssen at Edeghem near Antwerp: application for an emergency British passport (form with photograph in docket no.225842).

Mr Paul Graind'Orge at Laeken: request for an advance from the British Relief Fund.

Mr Alfred Henry Sibley and Mrs Marie Sibley: discontinuation of payments to them from the British Relief Fund.

Report of the death of Mr Charles Silverman, a British subject in Brussels.

Request from London County Council for authority for two of their employees, Mr Horace Elliott and Mr T J Holland, to send remittances to their wives in Belgium.

Driver B Harrison of the Army Service Corps: enquiries about his reported repatriation from Brussels.

Mrs van Eyssen at Hoogstraten: arrangements for remittances from her mother, Mrs G H J Mostert, to be sent to her via the Netherlands Bank of South Africa.

Mrs Kathleen Ball in Moorel: arrangements for a remittance to be sent from her husband in England.

Mr Butcher in Brussels: request for assistance from the British Relief Fund following the liquidation of his business by the German authorities.

Mr Henry Culliford in Brussels: permission for the Anglo-Belgian Prince Line Ltd to send dividends to him.

Mrs Mary Ann Watson Hennings: application for an emergency British passport (form with photograph in docket no.239157), and certificate of naturalisation (in docket no.239157).

Question of payment by the British Government for articles of clothing distributed to British subjects in Belgium by the Comité National de Secours et d'Alimentation, with a list of names of the British subjects and the articles distributed to them ( in docket no.239217).

Reverend C Payne: enquiries about Mr Henry Alan Dunkley, a British subject resident in Ghent.

Sister M Angelica of St Mary's Priory, London: enquiries about the whereabouts and welfare of Miss Magdalen Grant and Miss Fraise in Belgium.

Code 1204 Files 185953-243323.

Files 185953-243323.

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