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Germany: Prisoners, including: Transfer of Private H Holton, 2nd Buffs, imprisoned...

Catalogue reference: FO 383/302

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Reference
FO 383/302
Date
1917
Description

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Transfer of Private H Holton, 2nd Buffs, imprisoned for refusing to make munitions for the Germans.

Account of treatment of prisoners of war in German camps by Mr Gerard, US Ambassador at Berlin.

British prisoners in German hands: copies of letters sent to President Wilson; includes cartoon from the Daily Mail entitled 'The Black Flag' which depicts wounded soldiers and a nurse drowning (docket no. 75274).

Work of the British Section of the Bureau de Secours.

Shipment of comforts for prisoners in Germany.

Escape of Captain H G Gilliland, Loyal North Lans. Regiment and Lieutenant Douglas Stewart, Royal Flying Corps.

Delay in correspondence for German prisoners of war in British camps in France.

Commander Franz von Rintelen detained in UK and wanted for war crimes in the USA.

Denaturalised Germans interned at Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, who wish to be reinstated as German subjects, including the case of Mr F Muhle.

Request of Max J Stephan to be allowed to send £10 to his wife in Zurich.

Repatriation of two members of the crew of hospital ship Ophelia, Georg Kruger and Wilhelm Voss.

Removal of Hugo Friedberger from Knockaloe Prisoners' Camp due to ill health.

Supplies for prisoners of war sent by Crown Princess of Sweden.

Claim for wages by interned German seamen, including Richard Feichert and Antonio Ellich (or Illich).

Exchange of German Consul Heinrich Roland, interned at Lofthouse Park.

Sentence of imprisonment on Lance Corporal Ernest Noble.

Death of John Player Genower, prisoner of war in Germany.

Letters from German prisoners of war in the UK asking friends in Holland for provisions due to short supply in camps.

Repatriation from Australia of five members of the crew of the German cruisers Emden and Markomannia, including Rudolf Albert Ebelt.

Dental treatment of prisoners of war and the provision of false teeth for a number of British and German prisoners.

Non-receipt of parcels at Giessen by Private T Hutchinson.

Repatriation of Dr John C Curran, surgeon of the Mount Temple, interned at Karlsruhe and Rev. H G Wilken interned at Freiburg, along with other German doctors and ministers of religion.

Publication of official correspondence of the Central Prisoners of War Committee.

Dr Carl Grieff, interned at Lofthouse Park, who wishes to practice for the benefit of his fellow-prisoners.

Transfer of invalid combatant prisoners in British Dominions to Switzerland.

Code 1218 Files 74796-87532.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Files 74796-87532.
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English and German
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Subjects
Topics
Internment
International
Army
Europe and Russia
Air Force
Pay and pensions
Royalty
Weapons
Australia and Pacific
Nationality
Americas
Africa
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2617545/

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