Germany: Prisoners, including: Transfer of British prisoners from Magdeburg to Augustabad...

FO 383/270

1917

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Transfer of British prisoners from Magdeburg to Augustabad Camp.

Arrival of delayed parcels at Clausthal.

Reports of visits of inspection to the following internment camps:

• Clausthal
• Güstrow
• Parchim
• Chief Reserve Lazaret [Hospital] No 5, Hanover
• Celle (Schloss), with later comments on the report by Captain R A Reddie
• Friedrichsfeld [inspection not completed]
• Hameln
• Gross-Wusterwitz Working Camp
• Festungsgefängnis, Wesel
• Working Camp at Lübeck Docks.
• Schwarmstedt
• Giessen
• Cassel
• Limburg
• Wehlheiden
• Brandenburg
• Wallich Working Camp
• Burgsteinfurt

German memoranda on the removal of British prisoners from the camps at Tollmingkehmen and Neustrelitz.

Proposal by the German Government for a reciprocal agreement on the provision of dental care to prisoners.

Assurance by the German authorities of the safety of the water at Brandenburg Camp.

List of camps to be inspected by Dr Roemer.

Proposed inspection of the 4th Reserve Hospital at Jülich.

Request for information on working camps in the Duisburg district.

Comments on the appointment of Dr Roemer as Attaché to the Netherlands Legation at Berlin.

Mr G Grinnell-Milne: information regarding his son, Lietutenant Duncan Grinnell-Milne, interned in Germany.

Despatch of soap to British prisoners.

Mr Joynson-Hicks MP: parliamentary question about British officer prisoners formerly interned at Crefeld.

Lieutenant Colonel Tardieu: report (French language) on conditions for French prisoners at Ingolstadt.

Captain J Caunter: information on the reasons for the non-delivery of letters to prisoners transferred from Crefeld.

Notification that some British officers formerly held at Crefeld were interned at Ströhen, Kreiss Sulingen.

Rifleman J A Mercer: confirmation that he was receiving parcels at Friedrichsfeld; enquiry about his welfare.

Request for the withdrawal of British prisoners from the working camps attached to Wittenberg.

Request for a visit of inspection to be made to the internment camp at Soltau, Hanover.

Miss Evelyn Ord: request for Private Lonsdale, interned at Spandau, to be transferred to a neutral country.

Mrs M E Cartwright: request for information on Fort Zorndorf, where her son, Captain H A Cartwright, was interned.

Private R Peilow: copy of a letter from him about conditions at Hameln Working Camp.

Protest by the British Government about the lack of information provided by the German authorities on sentences passed upon certain British prisoners (surnames of the prisoners in docket no.140658).

Rifleman J Chetwynd: two letters on conditions at Neuhammer Camp.

Miss L Parker: enquiry about conditions at Ströhen Camp where her brother, Second Lieutenant W G Parker, was interned.

Extracts from letters from French prisoners about conditions at Gutersloh and Lempire.

Protest by the British authorities about Sergeant George Price, interned at Giessen, being compelled to work.

Army Council Instruction No 1117 of 1917, Visits of Members of the Swiss Legation and Consulates to Camps for German Prisoners of War.

Request for a visit of inspection to Soltau Camp.

Mrs Wood: enquiry about the welfare of her husband, Private Henry Wood, interned at Hameln.

German memorandum denying ill-treatment of British prisoners at Langenmoor Camp.

German memorandum on the sentence of imprisonment passed on Private Clarence White, and refusal to rehear his appeal.

Private Surr: information that he had been moved from Danzig-Troyl to the working camp at Dirschau.

Private Joseph Murphy: confirmation that he was receiving regular parcels at Giessen.

German memorandum on the non-transfer of Private Ballard to Switzerland, and the delay in the receipt of letters and parcels at Soltau.

Sentence of imprisonment passed on Charles Vant, a non-commissioned officer, for refusing to work.

Observations on the recommended size of working parties at working camps in East Prussia.

Request for an inspection of the Victoria Coal Mines K 47 at Hules (or Holes) in Westphalia.

Information in a letter from Mr P H Schneider questioning the suitability of Dr Roemer's appointment as Medical Attaché charged with the inspection of camps containing British prisoners.

Sir Hedworth Meux, Admiral of the Fleet: parliamentary question on the conditions in which British officer prisoners were kept at Schwarmstedt.

Mr Joynson-Hicks MP: parliamentary question on the number of prisoners interned at Schwarmstedt Camp, and the amenities provided for them.

Request for details on the circumstances of the death of Captain W G Morritt at Schwarmstedt Camp.

Information on the death of Private Clancey at Sutrup.

Mrs C Williams: information received from her son about conditions in Schwarmstedt Camp.

Sergeant James Bryce: notification of his escape from Germany.

Draft memorandum to the German Government on incidents at Hestenmoor and Westenholt Camps.

Draft memorandum to the German Government on incidents at Borbeck Camp.

Request for a visit of inspection to be made to Stuttgart II Camp at Wurttemburg.

German memorandum on medical treatment given to Lieutenant H G Gilliland at Dresden.

German memorandum on allegations that prisoners at Sielow Camp were prevented from being transferred to Switzerland.

List of British officers transferred from Crefeld to Clausthal (in docket no.152913).

Mr Leslie Wilson: information received by him in a postcard from a prisoner at Neuhammer about the confiscation of articles sent to him in parcels.

Extracts from letters from various prisoners (names in docket no.153342) regarding long sentences.

Mrs M E Murphy: request for enquiries to be made about from her son, Stoker Michael Murphy, interned at Brandenburg.

Mr H Senior Smith: enquiry about conditions at Schwarmstedt, with extracts from a letter from his son, Lieutenant Eric Senior Smith, interned in the camp.

Memorandum to the German Government protesting about reprisals against British prisoners for incidents involving prisoners of other nationalities.

Request for an inspection of Clausthal Camp.

German memorandum on the court martial and imprisonment of Private Albert McKenzie.

Memorandum (French language) from the French military authorities on the camps at Freiberg and Mühlheim.

Correspondence regarding a complaint about Brandenburg Camp.

Private Donald Harper, interned at Arys: confirmation that he had received certain parcels.

Second Lieutenant J W Shannon: advice from the War Office that a protest should not be made on his behalf.

Correspondence about a report on the treatment of British prisoners.

Observations on the use of witnesses at the trials of British prisoners in Germany.

Hospital Orderly A G Blake, interned at Munsterlager, Soltau: confirmation that his name had been noted for repatriation.

Mr L D Ryder: correspondence about his letter enquiring about the welfare of his son, Lieutenant A L D Ryder.

Corporal Percy Thumpston: report of an interview with him on his experiences while interned at Münster Camp.

Code 1218 File 235 (papers 135558-156540).

File 235 (pp.135558-156540).

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