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Germany: Prisoners, including: Indian seamen (Lascars) interned at Parchim in Germany....
Catalogue reference: FO 383/303
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1917
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Germany: Prisoners, including:
Indian seamen (Lascars) interned at Parchim in Germany.
Declaration of neutrality by German civilians interned in the UK.
Forms of enquiry for relatives in Germany requesting information about German civilians interned in the British Empire.
Transfer of the body of Prince Frederick Carl of Prussia for internment in Germany.
Payments to German East African troops interned at Ahmednagar.
Transmission of correspondence of persons in occupied territories to Germany.
Request by the German Government for the release of Andreas Holst and Erich Helmich, arrested on neutral territory.
Sentence passed on Kurt Thomas, prisoner at Ahmednagar.
Secret letter from Lieutenant R R W Jackson interned at Crefeld prisoner of war camp, describing conditions.
Conveyance of parcels etc. for German prisoners in UK.
Supply of uniforms etc. to prisoners of war.
Marking of graves of enemy soldiers dying in the area of operations and prisoners of war dying in the UK.
Sum due to Avery Hancox and other repatriated British prisoners.
Request by US Senator for numbers of German prisoners in UK and France and transfer of prisoners to USA.
Transfer of prisoners of war to Canada to supply labour.
Expenses of repatriation of German civilian prisoners.
Payments to German prisoners held by the British in France.
Rev. Karl Steck, interned in Australia.
Request for transfer of Professor Dr. Schroeder and Dr. Becker, interned in Shiraz, Persia (Iran) to a better supplied camp due to ill-health.
Request for the safe passage of German missionary Wilhelm Neuberg and his wife and two children, interned at Blantyre, British Nyasaland to the USA.
Repatriation of five members of German Sanitary Personnel from East Africa.
Formation of officer's camp at Freiburg.
Proposals by the Red Cross for the exchange of prisoners.
Treatment of Askaris by British in German East Africa.
Treatment of German subjects arrested in West Africa and transported to UK, including sworn depositions by Felix Cohn, Hugo Ebeling, Anna Lucie Baehr, Else Haensel and Bertha Wilhelmina Therese Getrud Hein, née Lummert.
Feeding of German prisoners in UK with bread and flour from Holland.
Requests for repatriation of prisoners under 17 years of age:
- Cadet Donald F Macfadyen, born 29 October 1900, of the ship Brecknockshire interned at Brandenburg
- Alfred Broomfield Clulee, born 13 December 1900, of the ship Otaki
Arrangement for despatch of food parcels to officers at Crefeld through an individual named Mr Van Vredenburch rather than from relatives.
Code 1218 Files 87711-100563.
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- English and German
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