Russia: Prisoners, including: British subjects captured in Finland and Russia, including:...

Russia: Prisoners, including:

British subjects captured in Finland and Russia, including:

• Mr F G Ebsworth from Petrograd, Russia: information that he had been captured in the Aaland Islands, Finland; enquiries from Mr J Addison about attempts to secure his release.
• List (in docket no.51553) of British subjects captured in Finland.
• Henry Harris: enquiry from Messrs J Stone and Co about his reported capture and internment; subsequent information that he was interned in Ruhleben Camp .
• Arrest and internment of a party of British civilians from Bolton, with an extract from The Bolton News listing their names (in docket no.53057).
• List (in docket no.54230) of certain British subjects captured in the Aaland Islands, Finland.
• Report that the German transport ship Frankfurtland, carrying British subjects captured in Finland, had been sunk; subsequent denial of the report by the Swedish naval authorities.
• Alfred Charles Carr, a British subject taken prisoner in Finland: enquiries from his wife, Mrs Mary Carr, about his welfare and whereabouts.
• List (in docket no.54913) of British subjects captured in Finland.
• Alfred Towler, a British civilian from Bolton captured in Finland: enquiries about his welfare and whereabouts from his brother, Joseph Towler, and from Frank Wynn.
• Mr E W Fawcett, British Vice Consul at Helsingfors, Finland: enquiry from his son, Mr J Fawcett; confirmation that he was interned in Ruhleben Camp.
• Alec Howard from Petrograd, Russia: enquiry from his daughter, Miss Dorothy Howard; subsequent information that he was interned in Ruhleben Camp.
• Edward Travis from Petrograd, Russia: enquiry from his wife, Mrs Edith Travis.
• Constantine Havery from Petrograd, Russia: enquiries from his father, Thomas Havery, and from Henry Bruce .
• James Parkinson from Petrograd, Russia: enquiry from his daughter, Miss S Parkinson, and from his former employers, The Anglo-Russian Cotton Factories Ltd; subsequent confirmation that he was interned in Ruhleben Camp.
• Mr F G Ebsworth: enquiry from Mr B Hainsworth; information that he was interned in Ruhleben Camp.
• Lieutenant Hayes of the British Intelligence Section in Petrograd: confirmation of his officer status during his internment.
• Peter Macrostir: enquiry from John Mathew.
• David Grimshaw from Petrograd, Russia: enquiry from his wife, Mrs Ethel Grimshaw; confirmation that he was interned in Ruhleben Camp.
• Lists (in docket nos.83568 and 88079) giving the names and addresses of British civilians captured in Finland and interned in Ruhleben Camp.
• Article from The Daily Mail of 21 May 1918 about the arrest of British women and children in the Aaland Islands and their internment in Holzminden Camp, with a list of names (in docket no.86186); subsequent transfer of some of the women and children to the Netherlands.
• William Richardson, interned in Ruhleben Camp: enquiry from his wife, Mrs Janet Richardson.
• Intention of the German authorities to release the British civilians captured in Finland, with the exception of the British Vice Consul, Mr Fawcett, and those considered as spies.
• Mr F G Ebsworth, interned at Ruhleben Camp: advice to Mr J Addison on sending money and parcels to him.
• List (in docket no.97086) of British civilians, including women and children, captured in the Aaland Islands.
• William Hawkins-Ibberson: copy of a letter from Ruhleben Camp requesting assistance for the women and children interned at Tuchel Camp.
• Miss Rosa Crow in Petrograd, Russia: enquiry from Mrs Eva Baguley, and confirmation that Miss Crow had chosen to remain in Petrograd.
• Miss Lilian Crow, a repatriated British civilian: account of her arrest in the Aaland Islands and internment in Germany.
• Mrs Hawkins Ibberson, a repatriated British civilian: letter describing her internment in Holzminden Camp, and subsequent letters requesting assistance for her husband interned in Ruhleben Camp, and enquiring about his release.
• Enquiries concerning the release of British civilians captured in Finland.
• William Hartley arrested in the Aaland Islands: enquiry from his wife, Mrs Margaret Hartley about the possibility of his release.
• Arrest of British civilians at Reval, Estonia (names in docket nos.108278 and 108543).
• Mr Reimer, Mr Stewart and Mr Ellis: information on their arrest in Russia while acting as flax buyers for the War Office.
• Mr E W Fawcett, British Vice Consul at Helsingfors, interned in Ruhleben Camp: letter stating that his internment was a reprisal for the detention of a German consular official.
• Mrs Butcher, a repatriated British civilian: report of her experiences while interned in Germany.
• Miss Alice Sevier, a repatriated British civilian: report on the conditions of her internment in Germany.
• Mrs Emily Sewell, a repatriated British subject: enquiry about her husband, Frederick Sewell, interned at Ruhleben Camp.
• Names (in docket no.113129) of British subjects captured at Reval, Estonia, and interned in Ruhleben Camp.
• Request from the British subjects arrested in the Aaland Islands and interned in Ruhleben Camp for efforts to be made to secure their release via an exchange of prisoners.
• Mr E W Fawcett: information on the distribution of a sum of money in Finnish marks deposited with the Camp Cashier at Ruhleben Camp for the benefit of the interned British prisoners.
• William Hartley: claim for compensation in connection with money deposited by him at Ruhleben Camp.

Mrs Emma Wood, a British subject resident in Riga, Russia: request for relief payments, and subsequent report of her death.

Mr I Segalowitz: enquiries about his wife and children, who were naturalised British subjects and resident in Russia; information that they no longer had the status of British subjects, as they had returned to the country of their origin.

Rates of pay for German officer prisoners captured near Vladivostock, Russia.

Names (in docket no.115520) of British naval personnel from HMS Attentive captured by an armed vessel of the Red Army.

Welfare of British subjects in Russia, including:

• Miss Orme, resident near Yalta, Crimea: enquiry from her sister, Mrs E Alkin.
• Mrs J Drake, enquiry about her sister in Odessa.
• List (in docket no.117935) of British subjects detained in Southern Russia about whom enquiries had been made.
• Arthur Taylor, believed to be resident at Riga: enquiry from his brother, Sidney Taylor.
• Mr Birnbaum and Mr Israelson and their wives and families, believed to be resident at Baku on the Caspian Sea: enquiry from the Danish Red Cross.

Code 1238 Files 49565-118238.

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