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Belgium and France: Prisoners, including: BELGIUM: Telegram dated 31 December 1918...
Catalogue reference: FO 383/487
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- FO 383/487
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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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Belgium and France: Prisoners, including:
BELGIUM:
Telegram dated 31 December 1918 from British Government conveying a message of thanks to Belgian people for kind treatment of British prisoners of war.
Repayment of costs of transporting British subjects from Rotterdam to their homes.
Efforts to recover jewellery and effects taken from British subjects:
- Miss Eva M Ahern of Dublin: claim regarding gold watch seized by the German Government.
- Miss Louise Miles and Miss Rhoda Miles: return of articles left in the care of the Netherlands Legation.
- Miss B Gormley: Return of 31 Belgian francs left with the Netherlands Legation.
Transvaal Succession Laws: letter enclosing a minute received from the Master of the Supreme Court of the Transvaal Provincial Division.
Miss Ethel Oliver: claim for refund of expenses incurred as a result of her trial and imprisonment for helping British soldiers escape.
Clothing and assistance for repatriated prisoners of war at Ostend.
Miss Janie Hutton White, teacher from Inellan: investigation by the Government Committee on the treatment of British prisoners of war, responding to a statement by Dunstan Philip Hall.
FRANCE:
Mr and Mrs George Fearn of Roubaix and Miss Mary Ann Taylor of Nord: statement regarding non receipt of money sent through Mr Henry Roberts of Rochdale.
Ydlibi family: internment in Djibouti; appeal by Miss May Ydlibi on behalf of her father to the British Consul General Havre; intelligence report on the Ydlibi family.
Search for British subject, Mr Herbert Smalley in Lille.
Mr Harry Faulkner at Croix: refund to Angus Faulkner of money not received by his brother, Harry Faulkner.
Mr N Zalal's desire to be released from internment in France and to return to Egypt: three letters in French addressed to the British Ambassador in Paris.
Mr Theodore Christ interned at Ile Longue, France; release authorised on furnishing proof of British nationality.
Code 1204, code 1217 Belgium: Files 110-3975. France: Files 281-3444 (complete)
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- Belgium: Files 110-3975. France: Files 281-3444 (complete)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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