Germany: Prisoners, including: Printed reports of interviews with the following British...

FO 383/265

1917

Germany: Prisoners, including:

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

• Sergeant Major J Rogers.
• Sergeant Charles E Anderson.
• Sergeant Richard Gilling.
• Sergeant Major W Dallas.
• Private J E Lithou.
• Driver Sydney Reginald Robbins.

Sergeant James Richardson, interned at Osterade: question of his compulsory employment.

Withholding by the German authorities of letters addressed by British prisoners to the American Embassy at Berlin; draft memorandum for communication to the German Government.

British prisoners held in occupied territory: enquiries about arrangements for the receipt of parcels by them and other matters.

Corporal William Stagg, interned at Cologne: copy of a letter to his brother.

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

• Lieutenant F S Hubbs.
• Lieutenant Humphrey M Goode.
• Captain C A C Turner.
• Captain A Scott Williams.
• Lieutenant Colonel P H Collingwood.
• Captain Benjamin Johnson.

Complaint by officers of the Royal Flying Corps about the confiscation of their kit by the German authorities.

Mrs Batty Smith: information received from her son, Captain Batty Smith, about conditions at Ingolstadt.

Private J Wilson, interned at Merseburg: report on conditions in the camp.

Second Lieutenant Rawson Shaw: confirmation that he had been transferred to the prison at Wesel following charges of mutiny.

Memorandum from the German Government on sentences passed on certain British prisoners.

Reports by Captain W H Hooper and Captain T V Scudamore on their treatment while interned as prisoners in Germany.

Reports of visits of inspection to the following internment camps:

• Grossenweder Moor.
• Rethem.
• Soltau.
• Radewege.
• Sprottau.
• Dülmen.

Prohibition by the German Government of the purchase of food from abroad by British prisoners.

Recommendations for the improved packing of parcels sent to Friedrichsfeld Camp.

Revised address details for prisoners formerly interned at Wahn.

Bandsman W Dovey, interned at Wittenberg: request for information on the charges leading to his imprisonment.

Private C White: report of the appeal proceedings against his sentence of twelve years imprisonment.

Reports of visits of inspection to the following internment camps:

• Dirschau.
• Danzig-Troyl.
• Reserve Lazaret [hospital] No V, Hanover.
• Reserve Lazaret [hospital] III, Hamburg.
• Trakehnen.
• Langensalza.
• Osterode.
• Mohrungen.
• Elbing.
• Reserve Lazaret [hospital] VII, Hamburg.
• Preussich-Holland.
• Alt-Glieniche bei Grünau.
• Marquard.
• Giessen.
• Cassel-Niederzwehren, with details of sick and wounded prisoners (in docket no. 56159).
• Ordruff Lazaret [hospital].
• Marquard-Satzkorn Working Camp.
• Goldap (East Prussia) Working Camp.
• Czersk.
• Stallupönen Working Camp.
• Ingolstadt Lazaret [hospital], with a list of the patients (in docket no. 56774).
• Nuremberg, with a list of sick and wounded prisoners (in docket no. 56776).
• Ingolstadt - Fort VIII Officers' Camp.
• Grafenwöhr Lazaret [hospital], with a list of patients (in docket no. 56778).
• Tublauken Working Camp.
• Ingolstadt - Fort IX Officers' Camp.
• Stuttgart Lazaret [hospital] III, with a list of patients( in docket no. 57663)
• Kempten Reserve Lazaret [hospital], with a list of patients (in docket no. 57665).
• Arys, East Prussia.
• Heuberg.
• Stuttgart Camp II.
• Schiller Schule Lazaret [hospital], Warzburg, with a list of patients (in docket no. 58477).
• Würzburg Officers' Camp.
• Darmstadt Lazaret [hospital], with a list of patients (in docket no. 58479).
• Interview with Mr Dresel on conditions in working camps in Germany.
• Parliamentary question by Major Hunt MP on the provision of food to British prisoners interned in Germany.
• Mrs M E Toogood: report of the non-delivery of parcels to her husband and other British officer prisoners at Heidelberg.
• Mrs Batty-Smith: letter on the alleged ill-treatment of British officer prisoners in Fort IX, Ingolstadt.
• Visits of inpection to various lazarets [hospitals] of the 7th and 8th German Army Corps containing British sick and wounded prisoners, with lists of patients (in docket no. 59300).

Code 1218 File 235 (papers 47178-59300).

File 235 (pp.47178-59300).

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