Netherlands: Prisoners, including: Leave arrangements for British prisoners interned...

Netherlands: Prisoners, including:

Leave arrangements for British prisoners interned in Holland:

• Letter dated 7 January 1918, from Charles Walker of the Admiralty, justifying inequalities regarding leave granted to prisoners interned at Groningen prisoner of war camp as compared with leave allowances for officers and non-commissioned officers accommodated in hotels and private houses.
• Anglo-German arrangements for granting special leave to prisoners in Holland in exceptional cases.
• Refusal to grant leave to Sergeant Major W R Goble to visit his dying father, in England.
• Letter from N White, War Office, giving the views of Netherlands Government regarding their responsibility for custody of prisoners of war transferred from Germany and stating that Hague Agreement has no relevance to conditions of prisoners in the Netherlands.
• German claim of right to demand return of British prisoners transferred to Holland.
• British complaint to Netherlands Government regarding cases of granting leave to German prisoners without seeking consent of British Government despite Anglo-German agreement that captor state must first give consent, before leave is granted.
• Leave arrangements for merchant seamen interned in Holland: letter from Reverend H C McColl, requesting leave for his brother, George McColl, Chief Officer of the Mercantile Marines.
• Letter from Marianne Hopf regarding possibility of leave being granted to her husband, W A Hopf, to undergo an operation in England.
• Letter from G F Head, requesting permission that leave be granted to his brother, Albert Head, to visit his seriously ill father.
• Request for grant of extended leave in Canada, to Flight Lieutenant D A N Nelles of the Royal Naval Air Service, on grounds of father's continued ill health.
• Notes and correspondence revealing disagreement between War Office and Admiralty regarding the comparison of the case of Captain Hodgson of the Royal Flying Corps and that of prisoners captured from the ship Prins Hendrik.

Memorandum on reception given to British prisoners of war by the Dutch people and Allied Diplomatic Corps on their arrival in Holland from Germany.

Letter from Walter Townley, dated 9 March 1918, expressing his appreciation of Sir John Hanbury-William's work for prisoners of war.

Notification of appointment of Brigadier General A Graham Thomson to replace General Sir John Hanbury Williams as General Officer in Charge (GOC) of British prisoners in Holland.

Arrangements regarding internment of British civilian prisoners in Holland, agreed at a meeting of Prisoners of War Department between Mr Vansittart, Mr Monk, Mr Voules, and Mr Carbutt, dated 25 March 1918.

John Cardew, British civilian interned in Holland: letter to his mother in Knightsbridge, dated 15 March 1918, describing his experiences; letter from Mrs A M Cardew to Mr Monk of Prisoners of War Department, dated 23 April 1918, expressing concern over the non-delivery of letters or money to her son.

Arrangements for accommodation of British civilians in the course of repatriation from Germany.

Enquiries and complaints regarding the sending of food and money to British civilians in Holland.

Letter from Lieutenant Ivan Armstrong, dated 6 May 1918, asking what steps may be taken to prevent the enforced internment in Holland of individuals exchanged from Ruhleben prisoner of war camp.

Protest by H G Munro against proposal by Dutch authorities to place British civilians in concentration camps.

Two letters dated 5 May 1918, from an anonymous sergeant interned in Holland, describing conditions and comparing them unfavourably with those endured in prisoner of war camps in Germany.

Press cutting from La Gazette de Hollande, dated 10 June 1918, reporting on a discussion in the Second Chamber on the interning of prisoners of war in the Netherlands.

Two lists providing names of British interned civilians scheduled for transfer from The Hague and Groningen to Nijmegen.

Corporal W D Carter of the Middlesex Regiment: two letters dated 12 and 23 October 1918, from Maud M Rogers issuing complaints on his behalf regarding food rations, need for socks and difficulty obtaining dental treatment.

Recognition of Lance Corporal Robert Winters of 1st Gordon Highlanders as a combatant member of British armed forces.

Pay and allowances of interned officers employed by the British Legation, The Hague, and General Sir John Hanbury Williams' staff.

Miss Vuillamy: correspondence and notes on salary negotiations and responsibilities upon giving up her work with the Society of Friends for employment under General Sir John Hanbury Williams.

Postal arrangements:

• General Post Office leaflet, dated October 1917, containing regulations for communicating with prisoners of war interned abroad.
• Correspondence on special regulations relating to the sending of food parcels and non-prohibited articles.
• Revised edition of Post Office circular, dated 8 April 1918, regarding parcels for prisoners of war in neutral countries.
• Despatch of leather to Holland in connection with manufacture of artificial limbs by British prisoners.
• Arrangements for export of tennis and golf balls to Holland.
• Articles subject to exemption from consignment to Netherlands Overseas Trust.
• Letter from General Page Croft, dated 9 November 1918, deploring inequalities in the delivery of mail to prisoners in Holland and alleging that Captain Pelham-Burn secured shipment of two race horses.
• Misuse of licence by Captain Rupert Keppel to obtain zephyr shirts for his friend Mr Van Loon.
• Letter from Miss E Willman seeking permission to send a food parcel to her son for Christmas, and mentioning various prisoners' grievances regarding the Mons Medal and public opinion.

Second (Interim) Report of the Committee on the Demobilisation of the Army, dated October 1917.

Code 1229 Files 4147-15986.

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