Netherlands: Prisoners, including: Relief payments to British prisoners interned...

Netherlands: Prisoners, including:

Relief payments to British prisoners interned in the Netherlands, including:

• Policy on the provision of money and clothing to destitute British civilians.
• Estimated weekly cost of board and lodging for officers and soldiers interned in the Netherlands.
• Estimated weekly cost of board and lodging for destitute civilians in the Netherlands.
• Complaints about the treatment of invalid British civilians interned at Groningen.
• Christopher W Dain: enquiry from his wife Mrs L Dain about his possible repatriation.
• Sanction by the Treasury for the payment of the cost of board and lodging for British invalid civilian prisoners transferred to the Netherlands from Germany.
• Report on the transfer of civilian prisoners to Groningen.
• Robert Forbes, a British civilian interned at Groningen: copy of a letter to his wife on conditions in the camp.
• Increase in the amount of the grant payable to destitute civilians.
• Herbert Edward Travers interned in the Netherlands: enquiry by his wife about procedures regarding food parcels.
• Lionel Strachan, transferred from Ruhleben Camp to the Netherlands: enquiry by his wife about food parcels, and information that these were prohibited by the Netherlands Government.
• Thomas Colley, interned at Groningen: copy of a letter protesting about conditions in the camp.
• James Young: letter regarding conditions at Groningen Camp; confirmation that remittances could be sent to prisoners.
• Opinion of the Treasury that civilian prisoners should give written undertakings of their willingness to repay money advanced to them.
• Stoker Edward Hall, interned in the Netherlands: enquiry from his wife about the provision of allowances to civilian prisoners.
• Report of an interview with Captain Harrington about the conditions for British prisoners interned at Nijmegen in the Netherlands.
• Correspondence regarding the transmission of lists of British civilians who had received relief payments, or provided undertakings to refund the money advanced to them.

Attempts by prisoners to escape from internment in the Netherlands, including:

• Mr Boehm: investigation into his purchase of the steam yacht De Hoop for recreational use by German prisoners.
• Attempts by certain German officers to persuade the Dutch Government to release them.
• Proposals for restrictions on the use by British and German prisoners of boats for recreational purposes.
• Captain Ritter, an interned German prisoner: notification of his intention to apply for release.
• Mr J H Juriaanse, a Dutch subject: copy of a letter from him to De Telegraaf complaining about the behaviour of interned German in Rotterdam.

Establishment of the responsible authority for the control of British prisoners interned in the Netherlands.

Statement of expenses incurred by the General Provincial Town Infirmary of Groningen on behalf of Engelina Mulder and William Baddow.

Request for the repatriation of four German civilians (names in docket no.4319) over 45 years of age interned in the Netherlands .

Repatriation of invalid prisoners from neutral countries, including:

• Proposal for a reciprocal agreement between the UK and Germany and for a revised schedule of disabilities.
• Mr A S Griffin: question of his eligibility for repatriation.
• Sergeant Thomas Dolan, an interned combatant prisoner who died at The Hague: arrangements for the transmission of his death certificate.
• Christopher Dain and Albert Karl: information on their repatriation from the Netherlands to the UK.
• Details (German language) of four British interned subjects whom the German authorities did not wish to be repatriated.
• Lists (in docket nos.108978 and 109401) of British military and civilian prisoners approved for repatriation by the Dutch Medical Commission.
• List (in docket no.111353) of German prisoners transferred to the Netherlands who had been serving a sentence of imprisonment in the UK.
• German memorandum on a proposed agreement for the repatriation of invalid civilians and those over 45 years of age.
• Mr G W Lewis: notification of his repatriation from the Netherlands.
• Medical reports (in docket no.113489) on various British prisoners repatriated from the Netherlands.
• Correspondence regarding amendments to the schedule of disabilities.
• List (in docket no.115516) of invalid British civilians approved for repatriation.
• Cecil Rayner: recommendation for a medical examination and possible repatriation.
• Text of the schedule of disabilities which would qualify prisoners for repatriation.
• Tom Saddler: death certificate (in docket no.69970) sent from the Netherlands to the UK.

Provision of funds for Mercantile Marine officers and men transferred from Germany to the Netherlands, including:

• Copies of letters from various merchant seamen (names in docket nos.77090 and 79174) requesting financial assistance and advice on their prisoner status.
• List (in docket no.99208, with a revised list in docket no.108705) of British merchant officers, seamen and fishermen transferred from Germany to the Netherlands.
• Question of the separate housing of Mercantile Marine officers, and the payment of subsistence allowances; later decision not to proceed with plans for separate housing.
• Proposal for the Board of Trade to liaise with individual ship owners regarding the payment of subsistence allowances.

Issue of clothing to British civilian prisoners interned in the Netherlands, including:

• Request by the Central Prisoners of War Committee for reimbursement for expenditure on clothing for British civilian prisoners interned in the Netherlands, with a list of the prisoners showing their names, addresses and occupations (in docket no.80906, with further comments on some of the names in the list in docket no.115019).
• Correspondence about permission for the despatch of clothing to civilians.
• Information that clothing was being distributed by the British Red Cross in the Netherlands.
• Provision of clothing for British civilian prisoners employed in the Netherlands.
• Parliamentary questions about alleged restrictions on the sending of food, clothing and money to British prisoners in the Netherlands.
• Cyril Radowsky interned at Scheveningen in the Netherlands: request by his father, Mr C A Radowsky, for advice on sending clothing to him.
• Central Prisoners of War Committee: request for permission to export bulk supplied of clothing for destitute British civilians in the Netherlands.

Code 1229 Files 26575-80906.

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