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Germany: Prisoners, including: Transfer of the Frau Tecklenburg, wife of the former...
Catalogue reference: FO 383/305
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FO 383/305
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1917
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Germany: Prisoners, including:
Transfer of the Frau Tecklenburg, wife of the former German Deputy Governor of Samoa, to France, due to mental illness and Herr Tecklenburg's repatriation from Motuihi Island near Auckland.
Request by German Government that two brothers, Heinrich and Bernhard Gnegel be interned in the same camp.
Employment of German prisoners interned in East Africa, in the colony of Réunion, Madagascar.
Transmission of death certificates, with photographs of the graves of deceased prisoners held at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man, to relatives via the Red Cross.
Alleged internment of German civilians living near the South African coast and in Nyasaland (Malawi), including women and girls and males under 17 or over 45.
Petition signed by German prisoners of war arrested in Nigeria (among them P W Brünger, Otto Rappude and Robert Schmidt) claiming a breach of the Treaty of Niger of 1885 and requesting repatriation.
Pay and treatment of German officers captured in the Cameroons and East Africa.
Examination of German prisoners by the Swiss Medical Commission.
Regulations regarding prisoners in Germany, including details of food rations.
Visits to British prisoner of war camps by Captain Schwyzer, a representative of the Swiss Legation, concerning thefts from the German prisoners by camp personnel. Also includes correspondence concerning thefts from British prisoners by German troops.
Repatriation of Mrs E Schmidt from India following the death of her infant daughter.
Death of Paul Heilmann, born 1 September 1874 at Osnabrück, formerly interned in UK.
Publications by Frankfurt Red Cross Society from internment camps in UK.
Measures taken by British officers to elicit information from German prisoners, including accounts by two French fishermen of their treatment on board a German submarine.
Salary of Doctor Thieme, medical officer in Samoan Islands.
Uses made of enquiry forms and an example completed by prisoner of war Michael Bartmann at Malta.
Non-arrival of parcels and missing items for German civilians interned at Islington.
Protest against treatment of Captain Schmidt and prisoner named W Tiedemann. by Sergeant Meyer and an unnamed soldier in Australia.
Transmission of communications between the German Aid Society, Johannesburg and Cape Town, and Berlin.
Recreation equipment (including boxing gloves, footballs, tennis and rugby balls) for British prisoners in Germany.
Eye witness account of brutality towards British prisoners in Göttingen and Crefeld prisoner camps.
German pamphlet posted to members of the Khandwa Mission at Ahmednagar.
Code 1218 Files 119224-128657.
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Files 119224-128657.
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English and German
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Open Document, Open Description
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