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Germany: Prisoners, including: Visit of Dutch Medical Mission to UK prisoner of war...

Catalogue reference: FO 383/308

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Reference
FO 383/308
Date
1917
Description

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Visit of Dutch Medical Mission to UK prisoner of war camps.

Reported typhus at Constance among prisoners.

Internment in Holland of German civilians from UK including list..

Prisoners of war chosen by the Swiss Commission for internment in Switzerland.

Examination of prisoners by Dutch doctors.

Transfer of British prisoners (including list of civilians) from Germany to Holland.

Internment of both British and German prisoners in Switzerland chosen by the Swiss Medical Commission, and hospitalization of tuberculous civilians.

Request for transfer of Lieutenant H A Newson, 2nd Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers, to Holland at an earlier date.

Internment in Switzerland of invalid prisoners.

Transmission of letters sent to individual prisoners in Switzerland.

Reception accorded to 400 British officers and men at Schaffhouse who arrived from Germany.

Method of examination of prisoners in internment in Switzerland.

Invalid combatant prisoners to be repatriated.

Remittance to Captain N E E Burton-Fanning, 2nd Battalion, Royal Marines, in Germany.

Prisoners awaiting exchange at Aachen.

Transfer of Captain S H Batty-Smith, 1st Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, who was re-interned at Ströhm, although passed for transfer to Switzerland, due to an appeal respecting an offence committed in February.

Extracts from letters received from British prisoners in Germany suffering from the effects of reprisals.

Reported transfer of German prisoners to coastal towns and other areas liable to attack by German aircraft.

German civilians entitled to repatriation in British Colonies overseas, including South Africa, India.

Transmission of savings bank deposit books of:

  • August Otto, interned at Knockaloe.
  • Edmund Lechner, interned at Knockaloe.
  • Carl Döppler, interned at Knockaloe.
  • Paul Hellmuthhaeuser, interned at Knockaloe.
  • Paul Reiff, interned at Knockaloe.

Transmission of a letter and two post office forms of Max Neukuckatz, interned at Alexandra Palace, to Berlin.

Alleged non-arrival of letters and parcels to Walter Dietzel at Knockaloe.

Application for internment in a neutral country by Josef Bollinger, interned at Rouen, and Georg Brulz, interned at Ahmednagar.

Code 1218 Files 153246 (papers 198412-end)-156786.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Files 153246 (pp.198412-end)-156786.
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Public Record(s)
Language
English and German
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Subjects
Topics
Internment
International
Army
Europe and Russia
Disease
Navy
Communications
Africa
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2617551/

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