Germany: Prisoners, including: Letter from C van Rappard on various matters relating...

FO 383/310

1917

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Letter from C van Rappard on various matters relating to prisoners of war in Germany including: the supply of food for the British Section of the Netherlands Legation, relief for German born wives of British subjects and conditions in Brandenburg and Ronnenberg camps.

Difficulty of transferring consumptive civilians to Switzerland.

Report on three officers, Michael Charles Cooper Harrison, Captain, 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Regiment, Claude Frank Lethbridge Templer, Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Gloucester Regiment and Gilbert Stuart Martin Insall, Lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps, who escaped from Germany.

Transmission of letter from Heinrich Schröder, a German prisoner interned in Egypt.

Transmission of letters to Oberleutenant Brandt, a prisoner captured in East Africa.

Petition from Polish prisoners interned at Stobs for transfer to a camp in England where only Poles are interned.

Death certificate of Major von Langenn-Steinkeller.

Reciprocity of issuing Passover bread for Jewish prisoners in Germany and UK.

Remittances for employees of Wonckhaus & Co interned at Ahmednagar, India.

Possible exchange of Reginald Ailwyn Fellowes for a German prisoner and his transfer to Holland due to ill health.

Allowances for British born wives of Germans eligible for internment in a neutral country.

Transmission of funds from UK to Germans interned in Holland.

Reports on the treatment of British prisoners in Germany.

Enquiry concerning the fate of Flight Sub-Lieutenant Alfred W Phillips and his passenger Mr E A Boyd, CPO.

Expenses of repatriation of Germans from South Africa by the SSErna Woermann and the SS Rufidji.

Request for the death certificate of Patrick Farley.

Court martial of three German prisoners interned at Malta for trying to escape: Felix Paul Heller, Paul Eduard Gussones and Friedl Karl Wilhelm Diedering.

Powers of attorney executed by John Martin, Royal Berkshire Regiment, interned at Heuberg.

Enquiry concerning news of William McKinney, Seaman, Royal Naval Division.

Remittance of Major G E H Wilson, 34th Sikh Pioneers, interned at Claussen.

Enquiry concerning the cirumstances of the death of Georg Wilhelm Kiderlen in London on 28th July 1917.

Retention of correspondence for English officers by German censor, in particular two letters written by Lieutenant Spindler.

Sale of soap to Germans by French prisoners interned at Friedrichfeld.

Expenditure involved by the repatriation from Germany of certain British prisoners and by the internment in Holland of others.

Publication of evidence of ill-treatment of British prisoners.

Repatriation of Weiler, late Director General of the Siamese Railways, in exchange for a British prisoner.

Request for step-brothers, Karl Bauer and Ludwig Springer, to be interned in the same camp.

Christmas parcel traffic for prisoners in Germany.

Booklet on mistreatment of British prisoners of war in Germany.

Request from Private J B Driscoll, 1st Norfolk Regiment, interned at Sprottau (Schlesien) for study time and informing the Governemnt of the non-receipt of books.

Treatment of officer prisoners of war in Germany and request for permission to go for walks on parole without a guard.

Repatriation of Hans Heineken, interned at Trial Bay, Australia.

German propaganda among British prisoners.

Transfer of non-commissioned officers to a neutral country if they have been in captivity for over 18 months.

Alleged non-receipt of remittances by Germans at Ahmednagar, India. Including the remittance of Julius Heidmann.

Report of the proceedings of the Fourth Session of the Special Criminal Court of South West Africa, including the cases of Carl Alfred Feuerstein, Jacobus Markus, John Annis and Albert Schmidt.

Letter from Private A Roberts interned at Hammelburg reporting that he has not spoken to an Englishman in 12 months.

Marked clothing sent to British civilian prisoners in Germany.

Appropriate employment of prisoners with one eye or of an 'intellectual' or 'professional' class.

Internment at Pietermaritzburg of Ernst Krause.

Request from the Vatican for transfer of Ernst Scholer to Switzerland from Malta.

Request for information regarding fuel and light in prisoners' camps in Germany.

Alleged measures taken against German naval officers in South Africa.

Code 1218 Files 185008-213829.

Files 185008-213829.

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