Turkey: Prisoners, including: Relief payments: To Mr Francis Cowdry, manager of the...

Turkey: Prisoners, including:

Relief payments:

• To Mr Francis Cowdry, manager of the salt works at Salif, and his colleagues Mr Bailey and Mr Burjoyee (Burjorji, Burgorjee, Burgoyee), all interned at Sanaa.
• To the family of Dr E J Azzopardy in Constantinople.
• To British-born wives and children of interned aliens and the relief of other destitute aliens.
• To Private Willings and Sergeant Babister.
• From The Central Agency Ltd, Glasgow, to the manager of their Beyrouth depot, Mr Jean Chitakis, a Greek national.
• To Kyrillos Macaire, ex-Patriarch of Alexandria, at Beyrouth.
• To Russian and Serbian prisoners on the Balkan front.

Minutes of a meeting held at the House of Lords on 16 July 1918, regarding a wider basis of exchange with Turkey, the carrying out of the Berne Agreement, and the despatch of food and clothing.

Requests for information:

• From the Abbot of Kykko, regarding Archimandrite Callinilos and Deacon Nicandros, Cyprian monks resident in Constantinople.
• From the Prisoners in Turkey Committee, regarding prisoners in Turkey.
• Regarding Kenan Nedjib, a Turkish national and signaller on the Cruiser Midili.
• Regarding the children of Monsieur Antoin Straulino in Salonica, John Straulino, Ernest Straulino, and Jean Ada Straulino.
• Regarding Miss Kendal and the Misses Oliver in Ain Zehalte, members of the staff of the British Syrian Mission, and confirmation of the death of Elise Oliver (Elsie Oliver).

Resolutions passed by the Prisoners in Turkey Committee regarding negotiators having local knowledge and money at their disposal, and the amalgamation of the two Prisoners of War Departments at the House of Lords and the War Office.

Internment of:

• Mr A C Routh, formerly of the British Consulate General at Smyrna, and at the time attached to the Netherlands Consulate General in Smyrna, near Basmahane Station .
• Henry Fosi (Henri Fousi, Fouci, alias Eftamius Frant) in British Guiana.

Corrections to the report of Lord Newton's speech regarding Turkish prisoners of war in The Times, 25 July 1918.

Request from the Ministry of Information for reports of interviews with returned prisoners of war.

Method of making remittances to British prisoners of war in Turkey.

Escape of 32 (elsewhere 20-30) officer prisoners from the Yozgad camp, including:

• Commander Cochrane, Royal Navy.
• Captain Johnston, Royal Garrison Artillery.
• Captain Yearsley, Royal Engineers.
• Captain Clarke, Royal West Kents.
• Captain Proteis, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.
• Captain Grant, 112th Infantry.
• Captain Haig, 24th Punjabis.
• Captain Harris, Hampshire Regiment.
• Captain Mathews (Mathers), Royal Engineers.
• Captain Burdett, 48 Pioneers.
• Captain Raynor, 48 Pioneers.
• Captain Patmore, 4th Battalion Hampshire Regiment.
• Lieutenant Barlow, Royal Air Force.
• Lieutenant Tudway, Royal Navy.
• Major Stockley, 66th Punjabis.
• Captain Rich, 120th Infantry.
• Captain Webbs, Royal Air Force.
• Lieutenant Dooley, I A R.
• Lieutenant McFodyen, I A R.
• Gunner Prosser, 82nd Battalion Royal Field Artillery.
• Captain Chamier, 110th Infantry.
• Captain Manners, 104th Wellesley Rifles.
• Lieutenant Steams, S I A R.
• Lieutenant Sheridan, I A R.
• Lieutenant Brabazon, Connaught Rangers.

Request from Lieutenant W H Daukes, Royal Garrison Artillery, to send parcels of tea to Mrs C A Paulus, wife of the Dutch minister in Constantinople.

Loss of an eye in an accident by Second Lieutenant Ismail Chevket Effendi, son of Hussein Remzi Pacha, interned at Seidi Bischr.

Volume of messages to and from British citizens transmitted via the Netherlands Legation.

Alleged ill-treatment of British and Indian prisoners of war in Turkey.

Enquiries regarding prisoners taken by the Turks during the retreat from Baku.

Enquiries regarding James Edgar Hoyle and his wife Sarah Jane Hoyle, and Mr Cyril Ball, residents of Baku.

Payments to Indian prisoners of war at Konia, including:

• Subadar Brij Mohan Singh, 7th Rajputs
• Subadar Ram Baran Singh, 7th Rajputs
• Subadar M Murngesan, 34th Divisional Signal Company
• Subadar Ratnam, 34th Divisional Signal Company
• Sapper Krishna Sami, 34th Divisional Signal Company

Transmission of the wills of Captain F H C Armstrong, prisoner of war at Afion Kara Hissar, and of Rifleman F W Parsons.

Repatriation of Major R McGregor Turnbull (also given as Major R MacGregor Turnbull), Royal Air Force, captured in Palestine, and his possible transfer to Germany.

Use of Turkish Treasury Notes captured in Palestine for the payment of British prisoners of war in Turkey.

Arrest of Hamdi Effendi, Turkish Consular Agent at Sakiz.

Release of a father and son named Hadkinson detained at Smyrna on a charge of spying.

Cheques drawn by officer prisoners of war in Turkey, namely:

• Captain A Douglas Pass Doyet
• Captain G Maurice Entwistle
• Captain Vernon R Guise
• Captain Arthur I Dawes
• Captain H Stephenson
• Major McVeagn Crichton
• Major F L Footner
• Major R C G Alexander
• Lieutenant Commander Clifford Warren
• Lieutenant Sir Robert J Paul
• Lieutenant John Still
• Captain R Derrick Elliott

The repatriation of British prisoners of war in Turkey, including:

• Parliamentary question regarding arrangements, 7 November 1918.
• Arrangements for regions west of Aleppo.
• Enquiry from Mr Valentine Arnold of Glasgow regarding conditions in Constantinople.
• British Officer prisoners of war, including lists of names.
• Allied prisoners of war in Thrace, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles.
• Evacuation from Constantinople and Alexandretta.
• Regions east of Aleppo.
• Publication of lists of returned prisoners of war.

Evacuation of 4,572 prisoners of all nationalities except Russian from Alexandretta.

Commission to investigate the possibility of men reported missing surviving as prisoners of war in Turkey, including Sergeant W A Ward, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force.

Repatriation of Cypriots in Turkey, including list of names.

Request for release of M Ariel, a Turkish prisoner of war and Jew of Spanish descent.

Request for the transmission of diplomatic correspondence to the Swedish Legation in Constantinople.

Code 1244 Files 109259-119365.

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