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Germany: Prisoners, including: Possibility of bombs in parcels for German prisoners...

Catalogue reference: FO 383/309

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FO 383/309

Date

1917

Description

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Possibility of bombs in parcels for German prisoners in England.

Petition from German prisoners interned at Knockaloe requesting erpatriation or transfer.

Alleged use of German prisoners for testing gas projectiles.

Parcel for Lieutenant C G Magrath, interned at Augustabad, awaiting transfer to neutral country.

Protest by E Wallis, H Brudigam and H Krull, captains of steamships Pellworm, Marie Horn and Brietzig, against their internment and the repatriation of six members of their crew.

Report on the shooting of Carl Stäber, prisoner at Holdsworthy Camp, Australia.

Enquiry for Private Thomas Dawson, 2 Royal Marines Bat. D and Private Renigeld Lumpkin (Lunckin).

Recovery of personal belongings of Lieutenant D Stewart, Royal Artillery and Lieutenant H G Gilliland, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, both escaped from Germany.

Reported prisoner of war camp at Leuharrée, South of Rheims.

Transmission of letters from Wolfgang Bever, prisoner at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield, to Berlin.

Procedure for transmission of letters from Leutnant Franz von Nathusius and Major Baumstark, interned at Belgaum, India, to Berlin.

Parcels addressed to prisoners which cannot be delivered due to the repatriation of recipients.

Alleged ill treatment of wounded German prisoners at the hands of the British (in French).

Food sent to British prisoners in Germany.

Transmission of letter from prisoner Johann Klose, interned at Douglas, relating to the institution of instructional classes.

Arrangements for their segregation and education of prisoners under 21, interned in England.

Treatment of apprentices of the merchant service interned in Germany as youthful prisoners in reciprocity.

Petition from German prisoners interned in Switzerland for wages earned during employment at Le Havre.

Reciprocal transmission of parcels of clothing etc. between the UK and Germany.

Claim of Otto Rappude, interned at Knockaloe, for compensation due to loss of earnings during internment.

Repatriation and exchange of prisoners paricularly: civilians under the Hague Agreement, soldiers who have been prisoners for a long time, and the agreement between French and German Governments for the exchange or repatriation of prisoners.

Request for transfer of Rittmeister von Klewitz and Oberleutnant Mayer, interned at Berrima, New South Wales.

Protest by German Government against transfer of prisoners in Canada from Fort Henry to Kapuskasing due to difference in climate.

Report on conditions at Kapuskasing Camp.

Traetment of British cadets, Charles Drummond Ellis, John Smith Hatfield and Dennis Harold Lee, interned at Ruhleben, as officers.

Alleged exercise of reprisals against Captain W A K Dalzell, Royal Flying Corps.

Remittance for Lieutenant Aeneas Mackenzie, 2nd Lieutenant, 8th Seaforth Highlanders, prisoner at Heidelberg.

Food parcels for prisoners in Germany.

Suggested record of British prisoners according to camp.

Treatment of prisoners in Germany according to German article, with special reference to Russian prisoners.

Proposed modification of schedule of disabilities for repatriation of civilians.

Release of Walter Alfred Groedel , interned at Wakefield, Yorkshire.

Enquiry for missing Royal Flying Corps officers.

Claims for damages by German prisoners interned in Switzerland.

Remittances to neutral countries for purchase of food stuffs for prisoners.

Repatriation of Gerhard Muller, held at Colney Hatch Asylum (ex Knockaloe) for melancholia.

Exchange of Captain William Pohlig.

Question of returning property (including clothes) of German prisoners who die in internment.

Enquiry concerning transfer of R M Bell, interned at Clausthal. Includes observations on conditions at the camp.

Remittances for prisoners of war in Germany and the cashing of cheques.

Repatriation of Miss Eugenie von Treskow to Nukualofa, Tonga Islands.

Release of Balder Olden, interned at Ahmednagar Camp, India.

Return of diary of Lieutenant Udo Erich Loeffler, who died in action.

Rifleman John W Probert, escaped from Däberitz

Code 1218 Files 157927-184560.

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Files 157927-184560.

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Language

English and German

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Clothing
Internment
International
Labour
Mental illness
Public disorder
Army
Trade and commerce
Europe and Russia
Air Force
Oil and gas
Pay and pensions
Australia and Pacific
Food and drink
Navy
Americas
Diaries
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