Balkans: Prisoners, including: Complete list of British prisoners in Bulgaria. Reports...

FO 383/370

1918

Balkans: Prisoners, including:

Complete list of British prisoners in Bulgaria.

Reports on visits of inspection to the camp at Philippopolis by Mr D I Murphy, American Consul General at Sofia.

Stoppage of parcel service to prisoners in Bulgaria.

Request for action to be taken to deal with the outbreak of typhoid and cholera at Philippopolis.

Non-arrival of clothes for prisoners at Philippopolis.

Proposal for a limitation on the period of imprisonment given to prisoners who attempt to escape.

Bulk supplies of foodstuffs, tobacco, cigarettes to the British Prisoners' Aid Committee at Philippopolis.

Report of the War Prisoners' Aid in Bulgaria.

List of articles with prices ordered from Messrs A W Gammage & Co to be sent via the YMCA to prisoners.

List of names and nature of wounds of all men at Radomir.

Subjection of prisoners to collective punishments for individual escapes.

Report on situation in Bulgaria by Mr O Fulton and an offer to help supply clothing and food to British subjects.

Employment of British prisoners in handling ammunition.

Report on the conditions and treatment of prisoners at Philippopolis and the Lager at Sofia.

Attempted escape of Second Lieutenant R B Lloyd, Second Lieutenant P Stewart and Lieutenant A B Riddle.

Enquiry form and letters from Mr and Mrs Mellor and Ernest Mellor. Also includes a report on certain British civilians in Bulgaria.

Printed report of the Comité International de la Croise Rouge of June 1918 on visits to camps in Romania.

Message from Lieutenant Cowan interned at Sevlievo.

Work of the YMCA among prisoners in Bulgaria.

Detailed statement by Lieutenant T W Greenstreet on his capture and treatment.

Reports by British prisoners repatriated from Bulgaria: C Sergeant Major T Duffy, 5 Connaught Rangers; Private Thomas Henry McGee, 2 Northumberland Fusiliers; Private H Coop, 9 King's Own Rifle and Private Mercer.

Delivery of parcels to prisoners in Bulgaria.

Reports by Lieutenants Herbert George Taylor, Bedford Regiment 9th Battalion; Edgar Percy Hyde, Royal Air Force; T W Greenstreet, 3rd Northamptonshires; C W de Lemos, 5/attached 11 Worcester Regiment, on their treatment while prisoners.

Report by Captain B J Brady, Royal Air Force.

Death of William E Benbow at Jamboli.

Punishment of Captain Nicolof for his ill-treatment of British prisoners at Philippopolis.

Enquiry concerning the whereabouts and welfare of Private William Billingsly.

Death of Private J Dodds, 11th Scottish Rifles.

Payments to George Wallington Fountaine in Bulgaria, an employee of the Alston Tobacco Factory. Includes a message for him from his sister Mrs H Kenneth Oldham of Greenbank Road, Liverpool.

Unfounded statements made the International Red Cross on the care of British prisoners in Bulgaria.

Internment of Lieutenant W E Gilliland at Sofia and its impact on the work of the Legation.

Money required for the British Relief Fund.

Remittances to British prisoners in Bulgaria.

Rate of exchange for the British Relief Fund in Bulgaria.

Quarterly statement of accounts of British Relief Fund, June 1918.

Code 1219 Files 4463 (papers 72156-end)-6418.

Files 4463 (pp.72156-end)-6418.

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