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Miscellaneous (General): Prisoners, including: Food stuffs sent to prisoners of war....
Catalogue reference: FO 383/354
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This record is about the Miscellaneous (General): Prisoners, including: Food stuffs sent to prisoners of war.... dating from 1917 in the series Foreign Office: Prisoners of War and Aliens Department: General Correspondence from.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- FO 383/354
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1917
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Description (What the record is about)
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Miscellaneous (General): Prisoners, including:
Food stuffs sent to prisoners of war.
Dental rubber for use of allied prisoners in Germany and Austria.
Bread Bureau in Copenhagen.
Tea for British prisoners in Germany.
British Red Cross Bureau at Copenhagen.
Proposed conference on supplies for prisoners of war.
Flour from US to Denmark through British Red Cross.
Offer of Messrs Bloch & Behrens to transport flour to Denmark.
Tea for Mr Seidenfaden to replace the supply he gave to prisoners of war.
Transmission of letters from prisoners interned at Shiraz.
Enquiry concerning the fate of Captain E W H Marsh, supposed to have been lost in the Persia.
Supply of flour for British and Serbian Sections of Bureau de Secours at Berne.
Relief of Serbian prisoners.
Reports of the British Section of the Bureau de Secours aux Prisonniers de Guerre and of the British Red Cross Organisation in Switzerland.
Establishment of bureau at Berne for the supplies to American prisoners of war.
Reports on Paul Grand d'Hauteville, formerly Director of the British Section of the Bureau de Secours at Berne.
Building of bakery machinery in Berne for the Bureau de Secours.
Code 1250 Files 58840-84464.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Files 58840-84464.
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English and French
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2617597/
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FO 383
Foreign Office: Prisoners of War and Aliens Department: General Correspondence from...
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