Turkey: Prisoners, including: Proposed exchange of prisoners of war of the Kut Garrison...

Turkey: Prisoners, including:

Proposed exchange of prisoners of war of the Kut Garrison under the Berne Agreement:

• Correspondence between Sir W Mallet and Mr D Laing regarding a meeting to be held on 24 January 1924 to discuss the outcome of Berne Conference and consider the possibility of nominating a small committee of prisoners' relatives to wait on Parliament with a petition for their exchange.
• Letter from Mrs Cecile Donald referring to a message from her brother Captain Spooner at Changri prisoner of war camp, urging her to agitate for the release of officers captured at Kut.
• Petition to Lord Newton for the exchange of Kut prisoners.
• Letter from Maud Cox, wife of Colonel C S Cox, urging that something be done to pressure the Turkish Government to release these prisoners or alleviate their pitiful condition.
• Letter from Mrs F G Flux with a list of Kut prisoners of the 1/5 Hampshire Battery, giving details such as the names of those alive and statistics on numbers of deaths, exchanges and missing prisoners.
• British Government statement regarding the current absence of any information on 596 British troops and 2,600 British Indian troops of the Kut Garrison.
• Letter from Sir Charles Mellis relating to the treatment of missing British prisoners captured at Kut.

Correspondence regarding the pressure placed on British prisoners through the granting of parole in return for undertaking not to attempt to escape or take up arms against the enemy.

Financial affairs of Mr W F Gingell.

Miss Frances Alltree in Constantinople: correspondence and financial support sent to Miss Frances Alltree from her family in England; notification of her death on 19 October 1918, in Constantinople.

Repatriation of prisoners of war:

• Arrangements for transporting repatriated prisoners of war, including guarantees of immunity for repatriation ships.
• List of incapacitated combatant prisoners of war transferred from India to Egypt with a view to their repatriation.
• German Government conditions for assurance of immunity for repatriation ships.
• Conference report dated 23 September 1918, regarding proposed action to be taken in response to conditions laid down by German Government affecting the immunity of repatriation ships.
• Voyages of the ships Empire and Kanowna, employed for the purpose of repatriating British and Turkish prisoners and distinctively marked to assist in identification.
• List of Turkish prisoner of war camps with details of number of British prisoners in each.
• List of names of British civilian prisoners of war who arrived in Alexandria on 9 November 1918 for repatriation.

Mrs Gladys Periclés, neé Hodder, and family: messages, records of financial support and personal correspondence between Gladys Periclés and her mother, Mrs Bessie Hodder, regarding the welfare of their family.

Code 1244 Files 11042-15861.

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