Turkey: Prisoners, including: Major General C V F Townshend: Letter with details...

Turkey: Prisoners, including:

Major General C V F Townshend:

• Letter with details regarding increased pay for Major General C V F Townshend for duration of his internment in Constantinople.
• Letter declining Major Townshend's request for exchange, on the grounds that no special privileges may be accorded to him that do not apply equally to others taken prisoner on the same occasion.
• Details of cheques cashed by General Townshend and Captain W Moreland.
• Message announcing the liberation of General Towshend and imminent arrival in London.

Pension of Captain Abdul Osman Omar: letters requesting life certificates for verification of identity.

Inspection of prisoner of war camps in Turkey:

• New appointments to British section of Netherlands Legation at Constantinople for inspection of prisoner of war camps in Turkey: Jonkheer Groeninx van Zoelen and M Mentend appointed inspectors.
• Resignation of Jonkheer Groeninx van Zoelen.
• Report (in French) dated 12 February 1918, with observations by Dr Rousine on the inspection of Russian prisoner of war camps in Asia Minor by Danish Red Cross; contains a printed copy of the Lloyd Ottoman newspaper, dated 7 February 1918 (in docket no. 81933).
• Appointment of Jonkheer F M van Sprengler to replace Jonkheer Groeninx van Zoelen as inspector of prisoner of war camps in Turkey.

Letters from two Indian prisoners of war, Feride Ekber and Mirza Mohammed Assaf to the Deputy Commissioner of Lahore, concerning the misappropriation of their property.

Miss Ann Mary Burgess of the Friends' Armenian Mission:

• Messages of support from relatives, friends and well-wishers.
• Records of contributions to funds for distribution amongst sufferers from fire at Constantinople.
• New Turkish law on enemy property: request by Miss Burgess for power of attorney to enable her to continue to administer the Society's property.

Proposed release of Major General Sir P Mellis under the Berne Agreement.

Correspondence of the Smyrna to Aidan Railway Company on proposed legal and financial settlement claimed by employees dismissed by the Ottoman Government.

Mr Albert Baldwin in Constantinople: family correspondence and financial support sent to his mother in England.

Aspasie Sarafouglou in Constantinople: family correspondence (in French).

Correspondence on medical treatment, relief allowance and promotion for Lieutenant Edward O Mousley.

Disposal of effects of Lieutenant B W R Reynolds.

Requests to Turkish Government for lists of the burial places of British dead, and for recovery of identity discs and other effects of British combatants who have fallen in Turkey, particularly in Gallipoli.

Death of Major R D de la C Corbett of the 48th Pioneers at Changri prisoner of war camp.

Report dated 18 November 1917 on the alleged murder of Lieutenant Commander Charles H Cowley upon the capture of the ship Julnar after the unsuccessful attempt to re-provision the Kut Garrison.

Letter (in French) from British civilians J O Young, N Salmoné and E G Hensman at Bey Chehir, requesting assistance; Foreign Office enquiries to determine whether their case merits assistance from the Red Cross.

Sergeant Francis Gallacher of the ship Assiout: letters and reports on his confinement to Chichli Insane Asylum and on his ill-treatment by Turkish soldiers responsible for transporting him.

Repatriation from India of Ottoman sanitary officials arrested on Camaran Island: application of Dr Ahmed Emin.

Mr Thomas Colley, Chancery servant at the British Embassy in Constantinople: letter by A C Kock, President of the British Relief Committee, requesting Colley's removal from post and curtailment of salary; response of British Government.

Mr Francis Cowdry, interned at Menakha: British Government enquiries regarding his possible repatriation.

Note from the Swedish Legation on withdrawal of permission for release of the son of the Mufti of Mitylene.

Arrangements in British prisoner of war camps to avoid reprisals on prisoners for the dropping of propaganda leaflets.

Two reports (in French) dated February 1918, on the desecration of Sir Nicholas O'Connor's tomb.

Arrangements regarding proposed donation of £1000 from Olive Pass to prisoners at Afion Kara Hissar prisoner of war camp.

Code 1244 Files 19811-56250.

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