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Turkey: Prisoners, including: Exchange of incapacitated British and Turkish prisoners...
Catalogue reference: FO 383/338
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FO 383/338
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Date (When the record was created)
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1917
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Description (What the record is about)
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Turkey: Prisoners, including:
Exchange of incapacitated British and Turkish prisoners of war.
Message from Chief political Officer at Basra for transmission to Mrs Melina Thaddeus at Mersina.
Proposal to send British hospital ship to Beyrout or Mersina.
Exchange of women and children of incapacitated military prisoners of war.
Funds sent to women at Mersina from Baghdad via the Swiss Government. Hadidjé Muzeyen Hanem and her daughter, detained in Cairo.
Exchange of Ottoman officials from Basra and families of the Hedjaz officials.
Internment in Egypt of certain Turkish officers from the Hedjaz.
Exchange of the Kut Garrison.
Repatriation of British, French and Russian incapacitated prisoners of war from Turkey.
Enquiry concerning the welfare of H C Spackman at Gedis.
General exchange of prisoners over 50 years of age.
Exchange of civilian prisoners of war with Turkey excluding men between 18 and 45.
Release of Eyoub Sabri.
List of Turkish incapacitated combatant prisoners of war in India.
List of incapacitated naval prisoners in Turkish hospitals with the names of their ships.
High rate of mortality among British prisoners.
Release of Turkish civilians in South Africa.
Port and ships to be used for the exchange of Turkish and British prisoners.
Reports of the deaths of Lieutenant Corporal H Park, 1/4th Border Regiment attached 1 Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry on 27th November 1916 at Angora and Private W A Rose 2 Royal West Kent Regiment, on 23rd March 1917, also at Angora.
Request from Spanish Embassy for transmission of message from Mehemed Ali Bey to his brother Djemal Bey Tophanie, a prisoner of war at the camp at Tayetmyo, Burma.
Turkish civilians in India who wish to be repatriated.
Repatriation of British and French civilians in Turkey.
Repatriation of Turkish women from Egypt and Arabian women.
Funds for the officers of the Hedjaz Division detained in Egypt.
Transmission of funds for Elizabeth Watkins at Smyrna.
Sending of remittances to the Meshaka family in Damascus.
Code 1244 Files 3077-3968.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Files 3077-3968.
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English and French
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Open Document, Open Description
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