Scandinavia, and Spain and Portugal: Prisoners, including: SCANDINAVIA: British naval...

Scandinavia, and Spain and Portugal: Prisoners, including:

SCANDINAVIA:

British naval prisoners, including:

• Private A N Hopkins, interned at Jorstadmoen, Norway: letter on conditions in the camp; request for his repatriation on health grounds.
• Supply of uniforms and tobacco to British prisoners at Jorstadmoen.
• Private A N Hopkins and Mr J T Wright: notification of their repatriation as unfit for military service.
• Liaison with the Norwegian authorities regarding the supply of food and clothing to British prisoners from HMS India interned at Jorstadmoen; arrangements for supplies to be sent from the UK.
• Commander W Kennedy, Camp Commandant at Jorstadmoen: details of the rations supplied to the British prisoners.
• Brigadier General H Yarde Buller: report of a visit of inspection to Lillehammer Camp.
• Commander Kirst, of the German warship Berlin, interned in Norway: refusal by the British Government to agree to his exchange for one of the interned officers from HMS India.

Escape of interned British and German flying officers, including:

• Report of the escape of Lieutenant von Platten and the attempted escape of Lieutenant Pyzgode from internment at Aalborg, Denmark.
• Lieutenant von Platten: opinion of the Admiralty that the Danish Government should request his return, on the grounds that he had broken the terms of his parole.
• Captain Jackson and Lieutenant Simpson, British airmen interned in Denmark: report of their escape.
• Decision not to make representations to the Danish Government about the supervision of interned prisoners.

Brigadier General H Yarde Buller: memorandum on a period of leave granted to British interned prisoners from HMS India.

Internment of wounded British naval prisoners in Norway, including:

• William Burt and George Lane, naval ratings from HMS Pellew: request for their repatriation on health grounds, with a printed copy of the Geneva Convention of 1864 (in docket no.44819).
• Typescript copy of General Instructions for Medical Commissions controlling Repatriation and Internment.
• Lieutenant Musselwhite: application for repatriation while on sick leave in the UK; subsequent medical examination and release by the Norwegian authorities.
• William Burt: decision that he could not be repatriated, following a medical inspection.
• Alex McBain from HMS India: decision that he was eligible for repatriation, following a medical examination.

Agreement for a chaplain from the Missions to Seamen organisation to visit interned British prisoners at Jorstadmoen.

Commander W Kennedy: request for an allowance to be paid to prisoners from the camp at Jorstadmoen who had been permitted to live and work in Lillehammer.

Proposals for the repatriation of British and German combatant prisoners interned in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, including:

• Proposals (French language) from the Swedish and Danish Governments.
• Brigadier General H Yarde Buller: memorandum giving the numbers of British and German interned prisoners in Norway.
• Number of British and German prisoners interned in Denmark.
• Letter from the Spanish Embassy in London expressing support for the proposals for the repatriation of combatant prisoners.
• Details of the number of German naval prisoners interned in Sweden.
• Details (in docket no.116016) with some names of British and German prisoners interned in Denmark.

Effects of the declaration of the Armistice of 11 November 1918 on the repatriation of interned prisoners in Scandinavia, including:

• Question of German prisoners in Norway interned on the auxiliary cruiser Berlin.
• Arrangements for the repatriation of British and German prisoners from Norway and Denmark.
• List (in docket no.117606) of British naval prisoners willing to remain in Norway; grant of permission by the Admiralty.
• List (in docket no.117922) of escaped British prisoners being repatriated from Copenhagen.
• List (in docket no.118334) of German aircrew and marines interned at Odense, Denmark.

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL:

Repatriation of German prisoners, including:

• Negotiations regarding the repatriation of German medical staff from the Cameroons interned in Spain.
• Insistence by the British Government on the removal by the Spanish Government of German troops from Fernando Po, West Africa; subsequent confirmation that some German troops and civilians had been transported to Cadiz.
• Proposals for a conference on the repatriation of civilian prisoners to be held at Berne, Switzerland.
• Proposal by the French Government for the exchange of a thousand French prisoners in Germany for a number of German civilians interned in Spain.
• Complaints about the behaviour of German soldiers from the French Legion interned at Malaga.
• Provisional agreement by the British Government for the repatriation of German combatant prisoners from the Cameroons interned in Spain, in exchange for an equal number of British and French interned prisoners.
• Dr Walter Hambold, a German subject interned in Spain: decision not to allow his repatriation.
• Petition from German civilians from the Cameroons interned in Spain requesting their repatriation.
• Captain von Heigelin, a German combatant prisoner interned in Spain: agreement for his repatriation.
• Report that the crews of two German U-boats interned at Alcala de Henares were engaged in military activities.
• Agreement by the British Government for the repatriation of German medical personnel from the Cameroons interned in Spain.

Escape of certain interned German prisoners, including Colonel Maritz, from Portugal to Spain, with a list of names (in docket no.80395).

Text and translation of a royal decree authorising funds for the maintenance of enemy subjects interned in Spain.

Lieutenant Sir James Wallace Simpson and Lieutenant Alfred Copley of the Royal Air Force: notification of their transfer from Tetuan, Morocco, to Cordoba for internment, including:

• Expression of thanks from the British Government to Senor Francisco de Carlos for his assistance in Tetuan.
• Grant of leave of absence to Lieutenant Wallace Simpson to visit his wife in the UK.
• Request for permission for Lieutenant Wallace Simpson to give an exhibition of flying at Malaga.
• Agreement by the Spanish Government to pay for the hotel expenses of Lieutenant Wallace Simpson and Lieutenant Copley at Cordoba, to be subsequently reimbursed from British funds.
• Advance of funds to Lieutenant Wallace Simpson and Lieutenant Copley to allow them to be repatriated under the terms of the Armistice of 11 November 1918; claim by the Spanish Government that they were ineligible.

Minutes of a meeting of the Transport Sub-Committee of 18 November 1918 on arrangements for the repatriation of interned prisoners.

Proposal for the repatriation of Russian and German prisoners from Spain.

Code 1230, code 1241, code 1236 Scandinavia: Files 2318-118457 (complete). Spain and Portugal: Files 34742-112642 (complete)

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