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Germany: Prisoners, including: Repatriation of prisoners (British and other nationalities),...
Catalogue reference: FO 383/489
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FO 383/489
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Date (When the record was created)
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1919
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Description (What the record is about)
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Germany: Prisoners, including:
Repatriation of prisoners (British and other nationalities), including:
- Shipping arrangements: proposed use of German passenger ships for Italian prisoners.
- Report by the Divisional Naval Transport Officer at Copenhagen on repatriation of prisoners through Denmark.
- List compiled by Prussian Ministry of War on German camps cleared of British prisoners of war.
- Private Michael Samson of the 1st Gordon Highlanders Regiment, captured at Arras in 1918: traced to Preussen Holland.
- Thomas Wilson, taken from boat Dryden in 1915: traced to Preussen Holland.
- Private F Carpenter of the 2nd Middlesex Regiment: retention in Reserve Hospital in Rawitsch hospital.
- Letter (with enclosure of German War Office memorandum) from Sergeant B B Cubitt, War Office, to General R C B Haking urging immediate repatriation of all British prisoners of war.
- Memorandum featuring brief history of the repatriation of British prisoners of war including statistics on number and transport of prisoners.
Alleged violations of Armistice Convention, including:
- André Joubert: case of French prisoner's prolonged detention in Dusseldorf .
- Charles Inskipp: compelled to work in mine after Armistice.
- Albert Hesford: compelled to work in mine after Armistice.
Investigation of complaints regarding ill treatment, including:
- Sub-Lieutenant Malcolm Watson at Clausthal: German response to allegation of ill-treatment.
- Case of Second Lieutenant Gerald Colheeny, 1/5 Kings Own Royal Lancasters, shot dead by a German Sentry and Lieutenant Joseph G Culver, 10th Essex Regiment, wounded at Stralsund Dänholm: court of enquiry report and statements by witnesses.
Reports on conditions in prisoner of war camps, including:
- Prisoner of war camp at Graudenz, by Surgeon Lieutenant R P Langford Jones.
- Two reports on the 'clearing camp' at Altdamm, by Lieutenant Colonel E C De R Martin, attached to Lancashire Fusiliers.
- Russian prisoner of war camp at Kaiserhafen, by Acting Surgeon Lieutenant Commander G A Page.
Code 1218 Files 1 (papers 980-end)-7 (papers 44-455)
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Files 1 (pp.980-end)-7 (pp.44-455)
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Open Document, Open Description
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