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Germany: Prisoners, including: Report of visits to the internment camp and lazarets...

Catalogue reference: FO 383/264

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FO 383/264

Date

1917

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Germany: Prisoners, including:

Report of visits to the internment camp and lazarets [hospitals] at Parchim, with a list of British prisoners in Lazaret 1 (in docket no.28834).

Lieutenant Graham Toler and Lieutenant Colin Campbell interned at Magdeburg: request for information on their welfare from Mr C J Stewart.

Major Arthur S Peebles: statement regarding the prevention of medical inspections of British officers at Clausthal.

Report of a visit of inspection to the working camp at Gorries near Parchim.

Report of a visit of inspection to the detention camp at Hahnöfersand.

Report of a visit of inspection to the lazaret [hospital] at Wiedenborstel.

Report of a visit of inspection to the working camp at Blumendorf, Schloss Grabau.

Report on a visit to the prisoners' reserve lazaret [hospital] at Lübeck, with details of the prisoners' names (in docket no.29693).

Report of a visit to the lazaret [hospital] at Schwerin, with details of the prisoners' names (in docket no.29694).

Mrs Camilla Picton Warlow: extract from a letter from her husband interned at Erbenkrug.

Private A H Tonks: recommendation for his examination by the Swiss Medical Commission.

Internment camps at Stendal and Lauban: question of work undertaken by British non-commissioned officers.

Bandsman W J Trydell interned at Friedrichsfeld: questions relating to his sentence and imprisonment.

Enquiry about British subjects imprisoned at Cassel-Wehlheiden and Rheinbach.

Giessen Prisoners' Camp: statements by various returned British prisoners (names in docket no. 30861) on conditions.

Statements by various British officers (names in docket no. 30862) relating to their imprisonment in Germany.

Proposal for an inspection of the internment camp at Heilsberg.

Sergeant James Richardson, interned at Osterade: attempts to trace letters written by him to the American Embassy in Berlin.

Non-receipt of parcels by certain British prisoners at Ingolstadt.

Private Thomas Ginty: memorandum from the German Government on the reasons for his imprisonment.

Private Percy G Steggles: memorandum from the German Government on the reasons for his imprisonment.

Report of visits to the internment camp at Friedberg.

Report of a visit to the internment camp at Mannheim.

Report of a visit to the officers' internment camp at Heidelberg.

Report of a visit to the officers' internment camp at Hannover-Münden.

Sergeant Major J Roberts: statement about conditions at Rastatt Camp.

Statements regarding conditions at Parchim Camp, Mecklemburg.

Mrs Griffiths: extract from a letter from her brother, Sergeant Laing, interned at Worms.

Enquiries into the circumstances of the deaths of Stoker Alfred Matthews at Döberitz and Private James Sharpe.

Mr Nicaise, formerly interned at Mannheim: information on conditions in the camp.

Mr Elias Lamble: enquiry about his son, Lieutenant A Lamble, interned at Spandau.

Surgeon-Probationer Alex Joe: copy of a letter from him on conditions at Friedberg Camp.

Confirmation that no British prisoners were employed at Boetzow Camp.

Parliamentary question by Mr Noel Buxton MP about the grant of permission to the Dutch Minister at Berlin to inspect British prisoners' camps.

Enquiry about the non-delivery of boots and fur coats to British prisoners at Friedrichsfeld Camp.

Mrs Harrison: enquiry about her son, Captain M C C Harrison, confined at Magdeburg.

Private M Braddish: report on his treatment while interned in Germany.

Mrs Camilla Picton Warlow: extract from a letter from her husband on conditions at Friedrichsfeld Camp.

Enquiries regarding reports of British prisoners held at a convalescent camp at Stammlager, Saarbrücken.

Restrictions on the delivery of parcels to the internment camp at Münster Lager.

Enquiry about the transfer of British prisoners to Sprottau Camp.

Lady Victoria Herbert: enquiry about the non-receipt of parcels by Rifleman Tregent interned at Münster.

Private D Kegan: enquiry about the reasons for his imprisonment at Cologne.

Information on provisions supplied to British prisoners at Rastatt by French civilians.

Names of British subjects interned at Cassel-Wehlheiden and Rheinbach.

Information on the number of bread parcels received by British prisoners in Germany.

Printed reports of interviews with the following British soldiers on their treatment while prisoners in Germany:

  • Lieutenant J B Morgan.
  • Captain D Hill.
  • Reverend Hales.
  • Captain James Arnold Smithick.
  • Captain Vernon.
  • Captain W Gordon Barker.
  • Major R F Meiklejohn.
  • Captain A J G Hargreaves.
  • Captain T B Butt.
  • Captain E E Orford.
  • Second Lieutenant H S Ward.
  • Lieutenant Colonel M Earle.
  • Captain A R MacAllan.
  • Lieutenant M H Abraham.
  • Lieutenant A E Walmisley.
  • Lieutenant K G G Dennys.
  • Lieutenant H T D Meredith.
  • Captain H O Sutherland.
  • Second Lieutenant F H Ellis.
  • Lieutenant James Stewart Franklin.
  • Captain William Dalrymple Johnson.
  • Captain E W Hanly.
  • Captain A E Stickings.
  • Lieutenant T Courtenay Shillington.
  • Captain Gilbert Nobbs, including summaries of statements from other prisoners (names in docket no. 43100).
  • Private M E E Kittredge.
  • Private J B Jenkins.
  • Private Arthur Harvey.
  • Private Edward McDermott.
  • Captain W G Pearson.
  • Major Arthur S Peebles.
  • Lieutenant James Henry Brough.

Statements by Sergeant Major J R Justice, Sergeant J Scanlon, Sergeant J Bultitude and Corporal F Haywood on conditions at Rastatt Camp.

Translation of a report by Sergeant Paul Veron on the refusal by British prisoners to work on the construction of Zeppelin sheds at Ahlkorn, and the nature of the work involved.

Lieutenant H G Gilliland: recommendation for enquiries to be made concerning his health and his treatment while interned in Germany.

Request for information from the German Government on an investigation into complaints by British non-commissioned officers interned at Gorries.

Correspondence regarding the trial and sentence of Captain L Graham Toler and Lieutenant Colin Campbell.

Memorandum from the German Government on the bayonetting of a British prisoner named McAdams at Quedlinburg Camp.

Mrs Ethel Lonsdale: enquiry about the non-receipt of food parcels by her husband, Private William Lonsdale, interned at Spandau.

Corporal J J O'Connor: enquiry by the War Office about his court martial and subsequent imprisonment at Cöln.

Code 1218 File 235 (papers 28834-47077).

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File 235 (pp.28834-47077).

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Clothing
Internment
International
Army
Europe and Russia
Air transport
Population
Food and drink
Nationality
Armed Forces (General Administration)
Operations, battles and campaigns
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