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Turkey: Prisoners, including: Detention and release of the son of Atta Effendi, late...

Catalogue reference: FO 383/342

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Reference
FO 383/342
Date
1917
Description

Turkey: Prisoners, including:

Detention and release of the son of Atta Effendi, late Mufti of Mitylene, and his safe conduct from Mitylene to Constantinople.

Remittance to Hannah Soffer and Nehemiah Peltz in Jerusalem.

Request by Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Corbould Warren RFA interned at Yozgad, to be posted to India on his repatriation.

Request from Mr J E Bloomfield, a British civilian interned at Nev Shehir, for clothes and food.

Protest by the Turkish Government against the arrest and internment at Malta of Suleyman Abbas Bey, the Ottoman Consul at Syra. Detention of Greek Consular Officials in reprisal.

Identification of Suleyman Abbas Bey and Georges Ballegio as the late Turkish and German Consuls at Syra.

Payments requested by Messrs Baker of London to certain British subjects in Turkey.

Funds for Herefordshire Regiment prisoners of war.

Transmission of a message from Alfred Castell to James Wright of Worship Street, London.

Transmission of a message from Alfred Castell to Lord Revelstoke forwarded to the Director of Military Intelligence.

Transmission of a message from Mr F Fotiadi to the Banque Belge pour l'Etranger.

Request for transmission of a letter from Mrs Vaughan-Cornish to her son Lieutenant E A Floyer, Indian Army Reserve of Officers, taken prisoner.

News of Lieutenant E A Floyer of Camberley, Second Lieutenant C V Palmer of Great Yarmouth, both Royal Flying Corps, and Second Lieutenant W L Heathcoke, 67 Australian Squadron.

Messages and remittance for Mrs James Babbidge.

Funds in Constantinople of Mr C B Charnaud.

Letter from Dr Watson Smith concerning the Lebanon Hospital for Lunatics, near Beirut.

Request from Mr W Draper-Dunkley, a prisoner of war, for funds from his trustees in London.

Enquiry for missing Turkish officers includes a list of individuals.

Effects of John Boyd and Edward Leakey, deceased British seamen.

Power of attorney from Major W Gilchrist, British prisoner at Yozgad.

Enquiry forms for Augustus C Routh and Ethel Martin, British subjects at Smyrna.

Request for the return of the wife and children of Ahmed Halet Effendi at Amara to Constantinople.

Petition from ex-employees of the Smyrna-Aidin Railway Company interned at Smyrna.

Treatment of Turkish prisoners in Egypt and Malta.

Messages from Sidney A Hall, interned at Nev Shehir, to his employer Robert T Money, Cannon Street, London.

Letter from Lieutenant K D Yearsley, interned at Castamouni, stating that prisoners are being charged rent.

Remittance to Reverend W H Brett of Smyrna.

Suggestion that Misses Fraser and Fowler be permitted to occupy house of Mr Willis, formerly architect to the Embassy.

Allowances to British and Indian civil officers taken prisoner by the enemy.

Arrest of five British officers (Flight-Commander G Bentley Dacre, Lieutenant G E Crosby-Flynn, Captain Neville Reeks 1/4th Hants Regiment, Captain Hugh G Brodie, Captain Arthur Dawes, 10 Gurkha Regiment) in reprisal for the imprisonment of five Turkish officers: Naval Captain Said Hassan, Captain Abdul Wahab, Captain Ahmed Fahmy, Lieutenant Mehmed Kamal and Sub-Officer Mehmed Mahir, interned at Kassoul Nile Prison.

Code 1244 Files 44710-69421.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Files 44710-69421.
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Language
English and French
Closure status
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Clothing
Internment
International
Labour
Mental illness
Public disorder
Railways
Army
Europe and Russia
Air Force
Children
Food and drink
Intelligence
Nationality
Navy
Middle East
Prisons
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2617585/

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