Germany: Prisoners, including: Decision by the British authorities not to allow two...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Decision by the British authorities not to allow two German nurses, Elisabeth Gisevius and Eldriede Hassenstein, to travel to South West Africa to work in the hospital of the Order of St John at Keetmanshoop.

Capture of SS Yarrowdale, including:

• Mr Reginald Salmon: enquiry about his whereabouts by his father, Mr John Salmon.
• Captain A H Summers of SS Georgic : transmission of a letter from his wife, Mrs Jennie Summers, to the German Red Cross.
• List of crew members (in docket no.26852) of SS Voltaire, believed to have been transported to Germany on board SS Yarrowdale.
• Request for full details from the German authorities of British subjects from various captured vessels who had been transported to Germany on board SS Yarrowdale.
• Captain A H Summers of SS Georgic: receipt of a letter from him by the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company confirming that he was interned in Germany.
• Enquiries regarding the whereabouts and welfare of the crew of SS Yarrowdale.
• List of crew members (in docket no.49420) of the schooner Duchess of Cornwall, reportedly captured and transported to Germany.
• Richard Waldemarsen and Daniel Olsen of SS King George: statement regarding their capture and transfer to Germany on board SS Yarrowdale.
• Captain Buyers and Mr Baser of SS Yarrowdale: request for their release on grounds of age.
• Captain Jameson and Chief Engineer Martin of SS Saxon Prince, interned at Brandenburg: request for their release on grounds of ill health.
• Lists (in docket no.89294), provided by the Geneva Red Cross, of crew members interned in Germany from the British steamships King George, Cambrian Range, Voltaire, Georgic, Yarrowdale, Duchess of Cornwall and Mount Temple, and from the Norwegian steamship Halbjorg.
• German memorandum on the transfer of British seamen to Germany on SS Yarrowdale and the German auxiliary cruiser Möwe.

Wilhelm Kramer, interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man, including:

• Enquiries concerning his use of the alias Otto Loeschner.
• Confirmation by the French authorities that Wilhelm Kramer, alias Otto Loeschner, had escaped from La Pallice Prison in France.
• Duplicate form (French language) from La Pallice Prison giving details of Otto Loeschner.

Correspondence regarding a list of German prisoners whose release or transfer to Switzerland had been requested.

Mrs Henriette Werner: refund of money taken from her by the British authorities in the Cameroons.

Lieutenant Clemens Baeumker, also known as Benz: enquiries regarding his reported arrest and death at Port Said, Egypt; subsequent confirmation that he was interned at Malta.

Request by the German Government for the transmission of various materials for the instruction in navigation of German prisoners interned in the UK, including:

• Memorandum and sample form relating to examinations on navigation for British seamen interned at Ruhleben Camp.
• Agreement by the British Government to the German request.

Enquiries regarding missing British soldiers in The Continental Times, an English language newspaper published in Germany.

August Horgren, a German subject in New Guinea: report of his death.

Arrangements for the notification of the relevant authorities regarding prisoners who met with accidental or violent deaths, including:

• German memorandum proposing a reciprocal agreement for the notification of this information.
• Agreement to the proposals by the British Government.
• Army Council Instruction No 621 of 1917, Prisoners of War - Notification of Violent Deaths.
• British memorandum protesting about the lack of information provided by the German Government regarding individual cases, with a copy of the British report on the death of the German prisoner Eugen Baumann.
• Recommendation that information on the deaths of German prisoners should be communicated via the Swiss Legation in Berlin.
• Agreement by the German Government to provide full particulars on the deaths of British prisoners.

Notification by the British and German authorities of the accidental or violent deaths of the following prisoners:

• Mr Patrick Gayner of Giessen Camp.
• Mr Thomas Shehan of Giessen Camp.
• Mr George Lawson of Friedrichsfeld Camp.
• Mr Frederick Smith of Friedrichsfeld Camp.
• Mr John Genower of Brandenburg Camp, with later information on the circumstances of his death provided by Mr William Crompton, and a memorandum from the British Government requesting a full account.
• Private Frank Ramshaw of Münster II Camp.
• Adam Ultsch, interned in France.
• Mr Fred Wilschaw, interned in Germany.
• Mr George Roberts of Friedrichsfeld Camp.
• Mr James Brown, interned in Germany.
• Theodor Schweiss.
• Vinczent Suchanek.
• Mr James Christie of Cottbus Camp.
• Mr Joseph Willis of Münster II Camp.
• Mr Frank Johnson of Neuhammer Camp.
• Mr Fred Blackbey of Merseburg Camp.
• Friedrich Karl Mötz.
• Josef Ingerl of Frongoch Camp.
• August Borchert.
• Albert Krämer.
• Claus Carstens.
• Hermann Hentschel.
• Mr George Riley of Minden Camp.
• Hermann Hackfeld.
• Heinrich Karle.
• Friedrich Newizella.
• Mr Thomas Inns (or Thomas Innes) of Dülmen Camp.
• Mr Patrick Hayes of Giessen Camp.
• Kurt Adolf Lompa, interned in France.
• Private John Devanoy of Münster II Camp.
• Private Sydney James Mullaly of Dülmen Camp.
• Seaman Benjamin Stone of Frankfurt Camp.
• Private Frank Ramshaw of Münster II Camp.
• Mr William Machin of Friedrichsfeld Camp.
• Private Robert Gilchrist of Friedrichsfeld Camp.
• Musketier Eduard Kreuz.
• Gefreiter Franz Jeschke, interned in France.
• Mr David Garrett of Langenmoor Camp.
• Private Paul Siodlazek, interned in France.
• Various German prisoners killed during an air raid in France (names in docket no. 213369).
• Private James Riddle, interned in Germany.
• Private Frederick Carter of Münster II Camp.
• Mr Leonard Langley of Dyrotz Camp.
• Mr Walter Masei of Münster I Camp.
• Private Charles Brookes.
• Private Heinrich Reck, interned in France.
• Private Ephraim Schulze, interned in France.
• Private Henry Richardson of Schwelm Camp.

Code 1218 Files 22525-25244.

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