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Germany (British Civilians), Prisoners, including: Remittance of two thousand Marks...

Catalogue reference: FO 383/428

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FO 383/428

Date

1918

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Germany (British Civilians), Prisoners, including:

Remittance of two thousand Marks to Hugo Writzner at Berlin for the maintenance of his son at Ruhleben.

Remittance to Charles Dressler.

Issue of British passports by the Netherland Legation at Berlin.

Compensation to Frederick Pearce for loss of his personal effects.

Repatriation of Captain Gerald Kerwan of the SS City of Hamburg, detained in Germany at the outreak of the war and now interned at Ruhleben.

List of effects left by British subjects.

Death certificates of deceased British subjects.

Death certificate of Robert Gaddy , interned British civilian.

Death certificate of Ernst Ashwell, British subject who died in the military hospital at Metz.

Sale of the effects of Frank Chandler who died in Karlsruhe Camp, 2 August 1917.

Death certificate of British fireman Giorgio Salvo and the British subject Herbert Lange.

Deaths of Alfred Lustgarten, a British subject and Kustov Venitschit, a Montenegrian subject.

Application for a British passport from Edith Carter. Includes passport application form.

Question of the payment of Miss M B Ness of a salary of £200 a year in respect of her services in connection with the repatriation of British civilians in Germany.

Possibility of a grant for the supply of a mental nurse for British civilians repatriated from Germany.

Issue of a British passport to Alice Kemp.

Issue of passports to enable wives of British civilians to leave Germany and follow their husbands to Holland.

Payment to enemy subjects for transmitting the effects of the repatriated master of the vessel SS Rossall.

Proposal for the passing of an Act of Indemnity.

Application from Soloman Lewis for a remittance of fifty pounds per month to his wife, Jeannettee Lewis, Leipzig, Germany.

Passport application of Herbert Behrens Maas.

Enquiries regarding the welfare and whereabouts of John Byrandt.

Detention of certain British and German boys at the outbreak of the war.

Request for the repatriation of Asher Gold by his mother, interned at Ruhleben.

Retention of the luggage of British subjects G S Nicoll and Rose Church, retained as security for school fees by their former school.

Request for exchange by H Hintermann.

Repatriation of 'Mr Campbell' and 'Mr Breakwell' from Switzerland.

Enquiry as to the nationality of George Heilbron, interned at Ruhleben.

Application by Israel Cohen, former prisoner of war, for a United States passport in order for him to lecture on his experiences as a prisoner of war in Germany.

Repatriation of Dr J L M Franken, interned at Ruhleben.

Application for a British passport by Nellie O'Shea, interned at Ruhleben.

Application for a British passport by Karl Whalley, Fritz Whalley and Henry Whalley, interned at Ruhleben.

Enquiry by Dr Alphonse Roman as to whether he is able to continue his professional work as a physician amongst the Anglo-American Colony in Berlin.

Medical research work at Ruhleben.

Supply of materials to be used in physics classes at Ruhleben Camp.

Employment of British civilians at the Cancer Institute at Berlin.

Civilian prisoners of war who leave Ruhleben Camp to take up work outside the camp.

Release from Germany of Reginald Fellowes, civilian prisoner of war interned at Schloss Celle, Hanover.

Question of permission for civilian prisoners and British subjects Eberhardt and Siegfried Kuhn to enter the United Kingdom.

Application by Gustav Lieberg to the Netherland Legation (British Section) for a British passport.

Money in Finnish currency handed in to the Ruhleben camp cashier.

Code 1218A Files 41258-108479.

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Files 41258-108479.

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