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Germany: Prisoners, including: Private P Jones, reported missing and believed to...

Catalogue reference: FO 383/262

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FO 383/262

Date

1917

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Germany: Prisoners, including:

Private P Jones, reported missing and believed to have been wounded: enquiry from the War Office about his welfare and whereabouts.

Sepoy Ata Ullah, an Indian soldier interned at Zossen: enquiry by the War Office about an unconfirmed report of his death.

Lewis Ehrenbacker, a German national: transmission of a copy of his death certificate to the American Embassy in London.

Request from the War Office for a tabular list showing the corresponding ranks of officers in the German Army and Navy respectively, with a copy of the list (German language) provided by the German authorities.

Comments from the Home Office on a proposed reciprocal agreeement by the German Government for the sending of parcels of bread, or money to purchase bread, to interned prisoners.

Request by the Prisoners of War Department for copies of reports on prison camps, and evidence taken from British prisoners who had returned from Germany, to be provided by the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War.

Captain J H W Knight-Bruce: printed report of an interview with him on his experiences as a prisoner in Germany, following his release from internment in Switzerland.

Private James Allan, Private John Vaughan and Sapper J F Politt: printed reports of interviews with them on their experiences following their escape from internment in Belgium.

Captain C E Joliffe: printed report of an interview with him on his experiences as a prisoner in Germany, following his repartriation from Osnabrück on medical grounds.

Reports of inspections of prisoner of war camps at Lauban, Neisse, Gardelegen and Magdeburg.

Investigation into the non-receipt of clothing sent to British prisoners in Germany.

Report from Chief Petty Officer G Munday, interned at Döberitz, on new regulations relating to tins of food sent to prisoners.

Lieutenant Lamble of SS Appam and Captain William Bate: enquiries into the circumstances of their transfer to Spandau Fortress as a reprisal against the sentence passed on Feldwebel Fritz Petzel.

Enquiry into the circumstances of the death of Chief Petty Officer D Garrett at Langenmoor Camp.

Private John Gregory, Private William Ward, Private Charles Lambert and Private Grant: printed interviews on their experiences in Mannheim Camp.

Memorandum from the German Government on the imprisonment of various British non-commissioned officers in Cologne.

Correspondence about a report on the outbreak of typhus at the internment camp at Cassel.

Despatch of footballs and boxing gloves to British prisoners in Germany.

Proposed publication of information on the use of police dogs in German internment camps.

Proposal by the British Government for reciprocal actions following restrictions placed by the German authorities on meetings between British prisoners and American Embassy representatives.

Request for an inspection by American Embassy staff of the internment camp at Wasbeck in Holstein.

Reports on the following internment camps:

  • Altdamm.
  • Preussich-Holland.
  • Magdeburg.
  • Sagan.
  • Heilsburg.
  • Quedlinburg.
  • Alten Grabow.
  • Wittenberg.
  • Zerbst.
  • Merseburg.

Request by British officers at Clausthal for squash racket balls.

Question of inspection of the working camp at Hüsten.

Corporal H E Shone, interned at Friedrichsfeld: enquiry into the terms of his imprisonment.

Employment of prisoners: decision not to pursue this question with the German Government.

Correspondence relating to the non-receipt of parcels by British prisoners in Kurland.

Sentence of imprisonment passed on Mr Wilfred Brook following a disturbance at the working camp at Bokelah.

Private P F Inns: letter on the treatment of British non-commissioned officers at the camp at Stendal.

Mr George Clement: letter from an unnamed camp on mining work undertaken by prisoners.

Major R D Alexander: printed report of an interview with him on his experiences as a prisoner in Germany.

Private A Sloper, interned at Göttingen: circumstances of his imprisonment.

Request for the American Embassy in Berlin to send a representative to inspect the camp at Ingolstadt.

American Express Company: observations on orders placed with British companies by British officer prisoners.

Interviews with the following British repatriated officers:

  • Lieutenant H G Henderson.
  • Captain H Master.
  • Lieutenant William Reid.
  • Captain Cecil Morley.
  • Captain Thomas Blackburn.
  • Captain C A Hutchinson.
  • Captain C V Beresford.
  • Colonel Eden Vansitarrt.

Internment of British officer prisoners at Ingolstadt and Dänholm.

Private J Watters, interned at Lauban: request for a representative from the American Embassy to assist at his court martial.

Lieutenant J W Reynolds: report of his experiences as a prisoner in Germany.

Enquiry about the internment of Australian prisoners at Schneidemuhl.

Observations on reports by the American Embassy on conditions at various camps and prison hospitals.

Lance Corporal J W Thomas: excerpts from his diary at Dortmund Camp.

Private Keely: alleged attack on him by a German sentry at Hüsten Camp.

Reports by American Embassy representatives on visits to various detention camps.

Report of the trial of Captain Frederick Bowring, Lieutenant Colin Campbell, Captain Leopold Graham-Toler and Captain Charles Harrison at Torgau.

Delivery of clothing to British prisoners at Döberitz.

Mrs Beatrice Crosby: complaint about the non-delivery of parcels to her husband, Mr F G Crosby, at Brandenburg.

Corporal W Stagg formerly interned at Friedrichsfeld: request for enquiry into his sentence of five years imprisonment.

Reports on the use of police dogs in internment camps in Germany.

Confirmation that no British prisoners were held at the prison at Anrath, near Crefeld.

Mrs Mildred Browne: enquiry about the receipt of clothing sent to Private F Hanley at Strafaustalt Rheinbach internment camp.

Brief report from the American Embassy in Berlin on conditions at Merseburg Camp.

Procedures for the issuing of tinned goods sent to prisoners in Germany.

Details of sentences passed by the German authorities on Private F Chantrey and Private W Shirt.

Reports of visits by representatives of the American Embassy to the internment camps at Stendal and Lauban

Code 1218 Files 114-235 (to paper 11305).

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The National Archives, Kew
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Files 114-235 (to pp.11305).

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Clothing
Internment
International
Labour
Army
Europe and Russia
Disease
Food and drink
Diaries
Armed Forces (General Administration)
Operations, battles and campaigns
Prisons
Sports
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