Germany (British Civilians held at Ruhleben Camp): Prisoners, including: Methods...

Germany (British Civilians held at Ruhleben Camp): Prisoners, including:

Methods of sending parcels to Ruhleben and their non-delivery.

Enquiry after the well being of Jewish prisoners in Ruhleben.

Extracts from letters by J H Irvin concerning conditions at the camp.

Food, tobacco and cigarettes, soap, disinfectant and barber, dental and recreational (e.g tennis balls and footballs) supplies.

Newspaper report on conditions at the camp.

Ruhleben Camp accounts for quarter ending 31st December 1916.

Supplies of food for invalids (including marmite) consigned to Mr Stanley Lambert.

Request for props and material for a production of the 'Yeoman of the Guard' by the prisoners.

Method of sending food parcels to prisoners.

List of pro-Germans in the camp.

Request for chemical supplies by Edward R Pease, the father of the prisoner Michael S Pease, a research scholar at Cambridge, in order to teach prisoners research.

Request for permission to send flannel suits for prisoners playing tennis as well as ordinary clothes.

Proposal to treat certain prisoners as officers at Ruhleben, as regards parcels.

Parliamentary question regarding the sum spent by the British Government on the prisoners.

Parliamentary question regarding the regulations of the Postal Censor concerning the types of clothing sent to prisoners and correspondence on the matter.

Request from Harold Platford, Camp Librarian, for bookbinding materials, in order to teach prisoners.

Request for clothing, including underwear and handkerchiefs, and boots for prisoners.

Conversion of Barrack 18 into a Parcels Post Department.

Substitution of biscuits for bread.

Delivery of soap to the prisoners.

Permission to send arts and crafts materials for the use of the camp school.

Selling of parcels to persons outside the camp.

Mental state of the prisoners described in a letter from a 'Cambridge graduate' interned in the camp.

Parliamentary question concerning conditions at the camp and the non-delivery of parcels.

Question of charging interned British civilians with the cost of medical and surgical treatment, and in particular the case of Mr A W Matthews (Platow).

Report on Ruhleben Camp by Mr Leeds.

Request to send eiderdown quilts or sleeping bags instead of blankets.

Correspondence from Stanley Lambert concerning conditions at the camp.

Remittances to interned officers and men of the General Steam Navigation Company.

Request for permission to send materials for leather work for Ruhleben classes.

Report on slight epidemic of dysentery at the camp.

Parcels for New Zealand prisoners of war at Ruhleben.

Expenditure of the Central Prisoners of War Committee on the prisoners.

Code 1218A File 3608 (papers 74483-166523).

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