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Germany (British Civilians): Prisoners, including: Remittance for Charles Edward...

Catalogue reference: FO 383/323

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Reference

FO 383/323

Date

1917

Description

Germany (British Civilians): Prisoners, including:

Remittance for Charles Edward Howie, born 20 December 1887 in Mainz, Germany. Includes a completed application form.

Complaint of non-receipt of parcels by Mr C M Struckmeyer, interned at Ruhleben.

Application for a British passport by:

  • Marie Clémence Caroline Walker, née Duchenne. Includes completed application form with photograph.
  • Agnes Emma Hawkins, née Hobday, and her children.
  • Elfi Marian Iles, wife of Captain Thomas Wakefield Iles. Includes an emergency passport.
  • Heinrich (Henry) Carl Heck, born 30 September 1881 in Alberton, Australia. Includes completed application form with photograph.
  • Adelaide Harriette Marvey. Includes completed application form with photograph.
  • Annelie Foster and her son in Düsseldorf. Includes a request for a photograph of their son to be sent to her husband Engineer Commander Edward M Foster.
  • Caroline MacKenty, born 5 June 1847 in Arnherst Island, Province of Ontario. Includes completed application form and photograph.
  • Friedrich Bernard Maria Barnard, born 17 February 1879 at Dülmen.
  • Henry Bondy, born 20 September 1875 in London. Includes completed application form and photograph.
  • James Anderson, born 2 October 1900 in Copenhagen. Includes completed application form and photograph.

Remittance sent to Friedericke Kessler (wife of Jacob Philip William Kessler, a naturalised British subject) residing in Godesberg.

Request for the release for Dr H Sumner Moore from Ruhleben due to ill health and correspondence concerning payment for his operation.

Enquiry as to the welfare of Professor Benjamin J Dale, interned at Ruhleben.

Application to be recognised as a British subject by Edwin D Graf-Casey, born 7 October 1882.

Application to forward dividend to H L Mummenhoff, late US Vice Consul at Hamburg.

Application for remittance by Samuel Jacobsohn, interned at Ruhleben, for the support of his wife and family residing at Bad-Nanheim and arrangements for their return to South Africa.

Return of Mrs Claypole (wife of Dr Arthur G Claypole interned at Ruhleben) with her son to England.

Requests permission for Isaac Lazarus interned at Ruhleben to have leave to visit his dying mother.

Request for Peter Paul Lazurus (four year old son of Frederick Herbert Lazarus, interned at Ruhleben) be passed into the care of Arthur L Lazarus in London.

Claim of Robert Vyvian Leckie to be exempt from military service.

Claim of Ernest Charles John Reid to be exempt from military service.

Statement of Hugh Jefferson Stokes of the 6th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, arrested as a spy and imprisoned, and correspondence as to whether he undertook not to bear arms against Germany on his release.

Request for permission to send a doctoral dissertation to Johannes Basson in Berlin.

Education of British subjects in Germany and specifically remittance for the board and education of Erich H G Holzmann.

Request for help for the return of Lily Taylor, daughter of Mr E J Taylor, to England, attending school at Pensionat Kniesel, Meiningen, Germany.

Requests permission for the return to England of Mrs Gladwin (wife of Walter A Gladwin) and her two children: Anne Violet Gladwin and Kate Wilhelmine Gladwin.

Escape of William Ivan Armstrong from Ruhleben.

Repatriation of William John Crossland Briggs, Congregational Minister.

German propaganda at Ruhleben and the exchange of Sidney Partlett for propaganda purposes.

Request for the release of Allen G Strawbridge from Ruhleben due to ill health.

Notification of the death of William Owen Green at Ruhleben and notes of the burial ceremony.

Notification of the death of Henry Howe on 5 June 1917, wife of Irene Howe.

Notification of the illness and death of Edward Oscar Vanderbiest.

Bills for the care of Percival Louis Eugene MacKinnell, suffering from mental illness.

Cessation of pension paid to Ida Laura Thoms (Thomas) widow of late Henry Thoms, formerly Consul at Riga.

Repatriation of Abraham Cohen and his wife with their four children.

Code 1218A Files 163761-193630.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

Files 163761-193630.

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Language

English and German

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Open Document, Open Description

Subjects
Topics
Internment
International
Mental illness
Army
Europe and Russia
Pay and pensions
Australia and Pacific
Children
Nationality
Operations, battles and campaigns
Africa
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