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Balkans: Prisoners, including: Appointment of Geneva Red Cross officials in Greece....

Catalogue reference: FO 383/371

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This record is about the Balkans: Prisoners, including: Appointment of Geneva Red Cross officials in Greece.... dating from 1918 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 383/371

Date

1918

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Balkans: Prisoners, including:

Appointment of Geneva Red Cross officials in Greece.

Enquiries concerning the whereabouts and welfare of Barnaby Kane in Bulgaria from his brother William Kane of Highfield Terrace, Bradford.

Correspondence for uninterned British subjects in occupied Romania.

Facilities for Dr McCarthy, an American, for British prisoners in Bulgaria.

Alleged pro-German sympathies of Dr McCarthy.

Transfer of Sergeant David Dial, 2nd Mountain Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, to a camp where Hindus are interned.

Report of the death of Miss Ruth Lizzie) Lee.

Delay in transit of communications received from and to the US Consul General at Sofia.

Message from Ethel Pitt to her brother Wilfred Friedrich Pitt.

Proposal by the King of Bulgaria to purchase clothes in Switzerland for British and French officers.

Cholera and typhoid vaccine for the prisoners at Philippopolis and in Turkey.

Request from Mrs J Campbell to send money to her nephew Private Kenneth Campbell, interned at Philippopolis.

Payment to Lieutenant D J Cowan, interned at Philippopolis.

Appreciation of the Sisters of St Joseph's School and the French women in Sofia for their decoration of the graves of British prisoners in the cemetery at Sofia.

Request for help for Second Lieutenant W S Ebden by his fiancée Nancy C Marshall, 8th King's Shropshire Light Infantry.

Mutual exchange of death certificates of prisoners in the UK and Bulgaria.

Enquiry by Mrs Sofiano concerning the welfare of her daughter Sophie Souvazoghe and messages between the two.

Enquiry concerning the welfare and whereabouts of Captain Graham Montgomery.

Papers concerning the death of Sergeant William W Walters.

Request for repatriation of Sub-Lieutenant M Minkow, 62nd Bulgarian Infantry.

Claim for compensation for lost luggage by John Vlachopoulus, a prisoner of war at Douglas.

Report on the escape of two Hungarian prisoners Alexandre Zazoff and Vele Alexeff Nicoloff, interned at Salonica.

Ill-treatment of Bulgarian prisoners on the Isle of Man.

Transfer of funds to Mr W O'Reilly.

Repatriation of British and Bulgarian prisoners.

Transfer to a neutral country of prisoners interned in Bulgaria and the UK for 18 months of more.

Exchange of officer prisoners in Bulgaria and Turkey.

Repatriation of Lieutenant A Leslie-Moore, 56th Rifles, due to ill-health.

Records of the deaths of Lieutenant G Steel and Second Lieutenant S Blackhouse.

Record of the death of Private George Odell.

Release of prisoners in Bulgaria.

Release of interned Bulgarian civilians in the UK.

Notification of death of Second Lieutenant Charles Greig while attempting to escape.

Record of the death of Second Lieutenant Charles Greig and correspondence concerning the insignia, buttons and bands belonging to his uniform.

Offer from Lieutenant Thomas W Greenstreet to assist with welfare of British prisoners in Bulgaria.

Pay of Second Lieutenant C de Lemos, Worcestershire Regiment.

Request for information concerning the fate of Lieutenant Gerard Charles Turnbridge, York and Lancasters.

Request for the release of Etienne (Stephan) Hevsepian, interned at Alexandra Palace, on the grounds that he is a Romanian subject.

Disposal of effects of deceased prisoners of war in Bulgaria, including lists of effects of Private Sanders, 2/9th Durham Light Infantry, and Private McClafferty, 6th Regiment, Dublin Fusiliers.

Code 1219 Files 7444-119601.

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The National Archives, Kew
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Files 7444-119601.

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Welfare
Clothing
Internment
International
Army
Marriage and divorce
Europe and Russia
Badges and insignia
Population
Disease
Nationality
Middle East
Operations, battles and campaigns
Sex and gender
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