Turkey: Prisoners, including: British Relief Fund: Receipts relating to transfer...

Turkey: Prisoners, including: British Relief Fund: Receipts relating to transfer of finance to British Relief Fund through the Scheurleer account with Coutts Bank. Letters and comments on proposed new method of replenishing the British Relief Fund using Treasury notes, in order to take advantage of the more lucrative exchange rate available on them. Letter from L Morrison of the Treasury stating the undesirability of sending Treasury notes out of the United Kingdom. Treasury correspondence complying with Netherlands Minister's request to spend up to £90,000 per month during July to October 1918, to provide relief to British prisoners in Turkey. Statements of payments made to Coutts for replenishment of British Relief Fund. Correspondence on purchase of Turkish notes to replenish British Relief Fund. Miss C A Cramby: British request for a relief allowance sufficient to avert starvation, to be granted at expense of Cyprus Government. Special arrangements with Cox's Bank not to apply charges to cheques drawn by officer prisoners of war in Turkey. Results of investigation into identities of Sudanese claiming relief while interned in Turkey. Lists of officer prisoners of war drawing cheques from Cox's, McGrigors and Holts banks and those drawing cheques from other banks. Letter from Lieutenant Commander A D Cochrane to Mr Thomas of the National Bank of Egypt regarding cheques drawn by British prisoners of war in Turkey. Withdrawal of relief to Cypriots in Turkey: request by John E Clanson, High Commissioner of Cyprus, for an account of expenditure in order to calculate any financial liabilities of the Government of Cyprus. Money due to Mr P Maksoutoglous, a Greek merchant of Kastamonu: letter from Major A J Anderson describing the financial aid provided by Mr Maksoutoglous to British prisoners and requesting that the British Embassy at Constantinople take appropriate steps to repay him. Enquiry as to truth of unofficial announcement of the deaths of three Indian prisoners at Yarbaschi prisoner of war camp, in Amanus, Turkey, named as Naik Zaman Ali, Mohammed Baboo and Mohammed Bagali. List of prisoners of the 1st Battalion Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry unofficially reported dead: Private R Adby, died at Marmourie, June 1916. Corporal S N Ballard, died at Tarsus, date unknown. Private H Clarke, died at Airan, July 1916. Private A P Grant, thought to have died in hospital at Adana, September 1916.Private E G Merrit, seen in hospital at Islahie Camp, September 1916, not expected to recover. Private A Puddephatt, died at Airan, September 1916. Private H J Saunders, died at Tarsus, September 1916. Private G Wilson, died at Nicebin, September 1916. Note from Red Crescent Society providing a list of names of British prisoners who died at Bagtsché, Yarbashi and Bor. Two lists containing the names of Prisoner of War Committee members employed in construction work on the Baghdad Railway. Letter of appeal by Mrs Mary C Whitfield to the King of Siam in an effort to trace missing naval prisoners of war in Turkey. Lists containing names of British prisoners of war held at Afion Kara Hissar, Kedos, Konia and Magnesia prisoner of war camps and a list of medical personnel. List and telegrams giving names of Ottoman women and children to be repatriated from Baghdad. Draft circular to Turkish police regarding repatriation of uninterned British and Turkish subjects. Arrangements for repatriation of Turkish civilian prisoners of war from England. Report on an official communiqué issued by Turkish police in May 1918, concerning the repatriation of civilians under the Berne Agreement. Copy of despatches sent to governments of colonies and protectorates (except Gibraltar and Malta) on the repatriation of uninterned civilians. Note verbale from the Ottoman Government, dated 30 June 1918, threatening reprisals if the British Government do not take action on abolition of internment camps. Despatch from the Government of Canada containing repatriation application forms for six Turkish civilian prisoners of war: Thomy Mehmeid Kiamil of Amherst prisoner of war camp, Canada. Ismael Hassan of Kapuskasing prisoner of war camp, Canada. Rob Alle of Kapuskasing prisoner of war camp, Canada. Vasil Yankulovitch of Kapuskasing prisoner of war camp, Canada. Kiro Vasiloff of Kapuskasing prisoner of war camp, Canada. Mohamul Antoine of Kapuskasing prisoner of war camp, Canada. List of civilian prisoners of war released from Turkey. Code 1244 Files 687 (papers 111791-end)-922.

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