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Miscellaneous (General): Prisoners, including: Conference to discuss what articles...
Catalogue reference: FO 383/355
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This record is about the Miscellaneous (General): Prisoners, including: Conference to discuss what articles... 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 383/355
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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:
Conference to discuss what articles may be sent to prisoners of war.
Exchange of prisoners of war including details of a Franco-German proposal for an agreement.
Exchange of wounded prisoners and those interned for more than 18 months or their transfer to a neutral country.
Proceedings in Maltese Civil Courts against prisoners interned on the island.
Austrian prisoners of Romanian and Serbian origins, interned at Vancouver.
Placing of limit of the size and number of parcels sent to interned officers.
Request that the Danish Red Cross do not send books on political or military matters to German prisoners in the UK.
Enquiry from Mechanics Metals Bank New York on methods for sending funds to American prisoners interned in Russia via prisoners interned in neutral countries.
Information respecting missing soldiers in possession of the Union des Familles des Disparus.
Secret internment camps on the left bank of the Rhine.
German prisoners captured by Serbians on Macedonian front.
Relief of families of interned enemy subjects in South Africa.
Arrangements for the exchange of large quantities of Russian and Austrian prisoners.
Regulations for controlling the despatch parcels to officer prisoners.
Extra 2lbs of food a month of foodstuffs for civilian prisoners.
Code 1250 Files 85739-124326.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Files 85739-124326.
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- Public Record(s)
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- English, French and German
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- Open Document, Open Description
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