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The Balkans: Prisoners, including: Mrs Rosalie Hans Seefelder-Baudouy: theft of her...
Catalogue reference: FO 383/485
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- FO 383/485
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1919
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Description (What the record is about)
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The Balkans: Prisoners, including:
Mrs Rosalie Hans Seefelder-Baudouy: theft of her jewels and other possessions, including:
- Letter from Mrs Seefelder-Baudouy detailing the circumstances of the arrest of her husband at Salonica, Greece, and the subsequent loss of her jewellery, with a list of the items.
- Investigation into reports that the jewels had been handed over to the custody of a lieutenant of the French Chasseurs Alpins; confirmation of these reports by Lieutenant General G F Milne.
- Further letter from Mrs Seefelder-Baudouy, and recommendation by the Foreign Office for an investigation to be carried out by the French Government.
- Information provided by Captain Boyle, the British officer who arrested Mr Hans Seefelder, alleging that only papers were removed from his residency, and that these were handed over to the French authorities.
- Mrs Seefelder-Baudouy: letter to the Prisoners of War Department requesting money to be advanced to her against the value of her jewels.
- Mrs Seefelder-Baudouy: letter claiming that jewellery and other items were removed by the British officers who arrested her husband.
- Assertion by the Prisoners of War Department that no jewellery was removed by the arresting officers, and recommendation that Mrs Seefelder-Baudouy should pursue her claim for compensation with the French Government.
Arrangements for the repatriation by sea of five disabled Bulgarian prisoners from France:
- Lieutenant Dimitroff.
- Lieutenant Pleff.
- Lieutenant Pope Krestoff.
- Lieutenant Efremoff.
- Lieutenant Fivkoff (or Jirkoff).
Mr G Sanders and Mr W P Buther, deceased British prisoners formerly interned in Bulgaria: correspondence concerning their property.
Preliminary Peace Conference: Conditions of Peace with Bulgaria: printed report presented to the Supreme Council by the Prisoners of War Commission, dated 1 August 1919.
Code 1219 Files 3731-6765.
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