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Netherlands: Prisoners, including: Establishment of a YMCA hut for prospective internees...
Catalogue reference: FO 383/326
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FO 383/326
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1917
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Netherlands: Prisoners, including:
Establishment of a YMCA hut for prospective internees in Holland and the provision by that organisation of clubs and canteens for the prisoners.
Estimates for the transfer of stores and equipment for Holland.
Educational work undertaken for the British prisoners interned in Holland.
Requirements of the YMCA in Holland including supply of books.
Work of the Red Cross and the YMCA in Holland.
Shipment of stores for the YMCA.
Medical examination of Lieutenant J C Joubert de la Ferté, Royal Flying Corps.
Supply of coal for internees at Groningen by the Admiralty.
Visits by relatives to internees in Holland.
Requests from Mrs A Starling, of Wallington, Surrey, and Mrs E G Pease of Teddington, Surrey, to visit their interned husbands.
Transfer from Germany to Holland of Captain Kenneth Foulkes of the Royal Irish Regiment, and permission for his wife to visit him there.
Proposal to send two officers to assist General Sir John Hanbury-Williams to obtain information concerning the enemy from the prisoners.
Remittances to British or Allied officers and men interned in Holland.
Offer from Reverend G J Wilson and his 'Missions to Seamen' of any services and religious ministrations required by the prisoners.
Provision of religious ministrations and chaplains for the prisoners transferred from Germany.
Accommodation for British staff of the Red Cross and YMCA in Holland.
Request for staff by General Sir John Hanbury-Williams and discussion of his office expenses.
Allowances for officers employed at the British Legation in The Hague.
Postal facilities for prisoners interned in Holland and parcels received for prisoners.
Leave on parole for British prisoners in Holland.
Release of men of the Naval Brigades over 40 years of age.
Consignments of clothing for prisoners.
Internment in Holland of 400 British invalid civilians.
Supply of cars, petrol and tyres for inspection and ambulance work.
Request that no prisoners who are suffering from mental or contagious diseases are sent for internment to Holland.
Regulations regarding the wearing of uniform by British prisoners in Switzerland.
Despatch of food and clothing by the relatives to civilian prisoners interned in neutral countries.
Employment of women in Holland by the YMCA and the Red Cross.
Purchase of part of the catch of the Zuider Zee herring for British internees.
Publication of the British News, a newspaper edited by interned officers, and a request for messages of welcome.
Code 1229 Files 151209-244743.
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