Switzerland: Prisoners, including: Despatches from Lieutenant Colonel Picot, officer...

Switzerland: Prisoners, including:

Despatches from Lieutenant Colonel Picot, officer in charge of British prisoners of war interned in Switzerland:

• Notes in response to an enquiry regarding the fate of German Captain Edeling and his submarine crew.
• Correspondence enclosing a list of officers and men of the mercantile marines who arrived in Switzerland from Germany on 27 December 1917, under an agreement with Germany for the transfer of invalid combatant prisoners of war.
• Application from Lieutenant H C Hinwood of the Royal Field Artillery for a transfer to the Royal Army Medical Corps in the rank of captain.
• Monthly reports for December 1917 from Château d'Oex, Mürren, Interlaken, Leysin and Lausanne prisoner of war camps.
• Reports by Major H R Charley on technical instruction schools and workshops for British prisoners interned in Switzerland.
• Sergeant Alfred Burke of Royal West Kent Regiment: reduced in rank from sergeant to corporal for drunk and disorderly conduct.
• J Mc A C Gracie of the 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers: request for promotion to lieutenancy.
• Major E N Townsend, West Riding Regiment: application for pay increase.
• Private John Morley of 2nd Battalion of the Manchester Regiment: copy of proceedings (in French) from court martial trial.
• Monthly reports for January 1918 for Château d'Oex, Mürren, Interlaken, Leysin, Lausanne, Vevey, Montreux, Seeburg and Meiringen prisoner of war camps.
• Monthly reports from Lieutenant Wallis on instruction of British prisoners by the School of Motor Mechanics, run by the British Red Cross Society and Order of Saint John at Vevey, Switzerland.
• Report from Mr J W Hobday, secretary of British YMCA in Switzerland, on the work of the YMCA in connection with British prisoners of war in Switzerland.
• Monthly reports on dental treatment of British prisoners by Joseph A Woods, dental surgeon to British prisoners in Switzerland; arrangements for delivery of dental supplies.
• Private H W Templeman, 13th Canadian Infantry, and Miss E D'Olhoff-Groote: request for authorisation to marriage.
• British prisoners of war interned in Switzerland: list of Swiss prisoner of war camps and details of the distribution of officers and men on 1 February 1918.
• Claim from the Quarter Master General in Berne for damages caused to various hotels and pensions in Château d'Oex between June 1916 and December 1917.
• Case of Sergeant P Dowling of the Cheshire Regiment and Private P Darcy of the Royal Irish Rifles, both crippled as a consequence of operations performed in Switzerland: British proposals to restrict operations in Switzerland.
• Arrangements for maintenance expenses regarding British merchant seamen interned in Switzerland.
• Death by tuberculosis of Lieutenant Harvey while interned at Leysin prisoner of war camp: statement by Captain W R Wigmore Haight of the Canadian Army Medical Corps regarding his treatment.
• Extracts from letters from Colonel Picot asking for assistance in securing coal for British prisoners of war in Switzerland.
• Arrangements and charges for heating and lighting of premises occupied by British prisoners of war.
• British funding arrangements with Swiss National Bank for maintenance of British prisoners of war.
• Correspondence, reports and international negotiations on proposed increase in capitation rate of British interned prisoners of war in Switzerland, set at 1 franc per day per head from 1 January 1917.

Code 1243 Files 5292-23347 (to paper 115482).

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