Austria-Hungary: Prisoners, including: Miss Ada Carrie Steele: decision that she...

FO 383/481

1919

Austria-Hungary: Prisoners, including:

Miss Ada Carrie Steele: decision that she should not be permitted to return from Vienna with her daughter to the UK.

Repatriation of civilians, including:

• Robert Lawson, interned in Vienna: request from his brother, Wilfred Lawson, for permission for him to bring books and scientific records on his return to the UK.
• Advice from the Admiralty that books and heavy luggage could be sent to the UK from Trieste on colliers [coal-ships].
• John Donovan: request for permission to return to Vienna to collect his luggage, with a form of enquiry requesting information about his brothers James Donovan and Harry Donovan.
• Mr H L Herivel: request for assistance in recovering luggage left behind in Austria, and for the issue of a passport to travel to Austria.
• Mr A Elliott: enquiry about his luggage in Vienna which was reportedly handed over to Lieutenant Parker of the British Mission in Vienna.
• Mr Anton Wallach, a repatriated Austrian subject: request for the refund of a sum of money taken from him by the British authorities prior to his repatriation.
• Request by the Austrian authorities for the return of heavy luggage and furniture belonging to repatriated Austrian civilians who were interned at Douglas, Isle of Man.
• Charles Cocking: claim for compensation for the loss of his and his wife's luggage while travelling to the UK from Venice by train.
• Request by the Prisoners of War Information Bureau for advice on the disposal of the luggage and effects of former interned enemy civilians; recommendation that this question should be dealt with by a specially constituted sub-commission.

Balance sheet of the Christmas Gift Relief Fund at Vienna for the year 1918.

Cyril Hertison: request for the issue of a badge to distinguish British interned civilians repatriated from Austria.

Ernest O'Dell and Louis Kerr: information from the Spanish Embassy that they had left Vienna for Trieste.

Mrs Langridge in Vienna: permission for the transmission of a power of attorney concerning her late husband's estate.

Miss Elizabeth Bruce in Vienna: payments to her from four pension funds, and transmission of the forms of receipt.

Provision of assistance to Austro-Hungarian prisoners in the Union of South Africa following their liberation.

Mr J W Chamberlain: copy of a form of enquiry regarding his wife, Mrs Frieda Chamberlain, and their children in Budapest, Hungary.

Mr Francis Wilkinson: enquiry from his wife, Mrs J Wilkinson, about the disposal of his personal effects in Vienna.

Denis de Goncz, an interned prisoner: enquiry to the Isle of Man Government concerning correspondence addressed to him.

Miss Dorothy Bovey, a British subject in Vienna, employed as a children's nurse by Frau Warndorfer: request to be repatriated.

Mrs Biedermann resident in Austria: request by Messrs Robinson, Wilkins and Thacker, solicitors for the estate of her late husband, Mr C C Biedermann, for permission to transfer income from the estate to her.

Code 1203 Files 1833-2921.

Files 1833-2921.

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