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Germany: Prisoners, including: Imprisonment of British airmen for dropping propaganda...
Catalogue reference: FO 383/412
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 383/412
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1918
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Description (What the record is about)
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Germany: Prisoners, including:
Imprisonment of British airmen for dropping propaganda leaflets, including:
- Enquiry regarding the imprisonment of British airmen Lieutenants Scholtz and Wookey.
- Sentences passed on airmen for dropping propaganda pamphlets.
- Trial of British airmen Whitworth, Pruden, Everix and Conlin for treason.
Spiritual welfare of prisoners, including:
- Permission for German clergymen to visit prisoner of war camps or conduct services in German churches in England.
- Visits by Reverend Williams to prisoner of war camps.
- Supply of communion vessels and hymn books for prisoners in Germany.
- Exports of vestments for British chaplains in prison camps in Germany.
- Spiritual assistance for German Roman Catholics interned at Trinidad.
Germans interned in Trinidad.
Work undertaken by the British Help Committee at Gustrow Camp.
Internment in Switzerland of civilian prisoners with tuberculosis.
Internment of British and German prisoners in Holland and Switzerland, including invalid combatant prisoners.
Examination of prisoners by the Swiss medical mission.
Examination of British prisoners by the Dutch Medical Commission at Aachen.
Visit to the UK by the Dutch Medical Commission to examine German prisoners of war.
Transfer to Switzerland of consumptive Indians interned in Roumania.
Wounded British prisoners recently captured.
Examination of prisoners for internment in neutral countries.
Internment in a neutral country of invalid prisoners of war.
Repatriation of invalid British prisoners from Germany.
Exchange of incapacitated British prisoners.
Allegation that three German prisoners were sent to Holland while suffering from typhus.
Examination of Private H R Hall, Lancashire Fusilliers, prisoner at Friedrichsfeld, suffering from serious chest and heart trouble.
Examination of prisoners of war by the Dutch Medical Commission for internment in a neutral country.
Transfer of Indian officers and non-commissioned officers transferred to Holland.
Treatment of British prisoners at Nuremberg.
Request by five British officers interned at Schweidnitz for internment in a neutral country.
Code 1218 Files 15210 (papers 34272-end)-17080.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Files 15210 (pp.34272-end)-17080.
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- Open Document, Open Description
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