Turkey: Prisoners, including: British medical officers in Turkish prisoner of war...

Turkey: Prisoners, including:

British medical officers in Turkish prisoner of war camps:

• Letters by Sir Ludovic Grant, requesting that Dr James Brown, a graduate of Edinburgh University, be repatriated.
• Letter from Mrs J M Walker, wife of Major E A Walker, urging action regarding treatment of her husband, currently denied the privileges normally granted to medical officers.
• Correspondence stressing the urgency of retaining at least one medical officer at each prisoner of war camp in Turkey.
• List containing names of medical officers at various Turkish prisoner of war camps and giving the names of camps that have no medical officers.
• Proposed redistribution of medical personnel to Turkish prisoner of war camps in greatest need.
• Army Council instructions regarding the pay of medical personnel captured as prisoners of war.

Resignation by Bessim Omer Pasha of vice-presidency of the Ottoman Red Crescent Society.

• Note from the Netherlands Legation announcing the resignation by Bessim Omer Pasha.
• Letter from Horace Rumboldt speculating as to reasons for Bessim Omer Pasha's resignation.

Offer by Arthur Franklin to communicate, through a neutral country, with Nahum Bey, official head of Jewish community in Turkey, in order to further the interests of British prisoners of war in Turkey.

Appointment of Dr Van Loon as successor to Mr Van Spengler as inspector of prisoner of war camps in Turkey.

Letter from Dr Lieutenant Colonel W H Brown commenting on the special services rendered to British prisoners of war by certain gentlemen of Smyrna: Dr A MacLachlan, President of International College; Reverend W Brett, Chaplain of Smyrna; Mr H Whittall, chairman of Relief Committee; and Mr A C Routh of the British Consular Service.

Correspondence on relief and repatriation of British prisoners in Turkey:

• Letters from Arthur Simmonds thanking the Foreign Office for the increase in his mother's pension, notifying them of her death in Constantinople, and appealing for a maintenance allowance for her widowed daughter, Mrs Mary Farra.
• Mr Archibald Forder, prisoner of war in Damascus: correspondence and appeals for his repatriation, non-delivery of letters from his family; record of messages sent through Mr Henry Tasker and the Netherlands Legation.
• Repatriation of British prisoner, J Calcott Gaskin in exchange for Turkish prisoner, Basri Bey: documentation on repatriation arrangements and content of messages to be forwarded to family members.
• Relief allowance for widow of late Mr Richard Pariente, formerly of the British Post Office in Smyrna.

Enquiry seeking details of alleged prohibition by Ottoman Government of remittances to British subjects in Turkey.

Memorandum (in French) from the Netherlands Minister in Constantinople on the right of British subjects in Turkey to own property and make contracts.

Report by William Golcher, Swedish Consul at Malta, on conditions at the prisoner of war camp for Turkish prisoners at Malta.

Government of India communications regarding the employment of Arab and Turkish prisoners of war in collieries and in the construction of dams.

Correspondence on allowances for Turkish officers of high rank interned as prisoners of war in India.

Letters and observations regarding the shooting of Turkish prisoner of war, Ali Oghlou Dervich, during his attempted escape from Sivas prisoner of war camp at Heliopolis.

Disposal of the estate of Henry Baker in Constantinople.

Thaddeus family: financial assistance to Mélina and Josephine Thaddeus; messages sent by separated members of the family located in Smyrna and Mersin in Turkey, and Basra and Baghdad in Iraq.

Code 1244 Files 1653-11018.

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