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Germany: Prisoners, including: Shooting of prisoners at Langensalza prisoner of war...
Catalogue reference: FO 383/496
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This record is about the Germany: Prisoners, including: Shooting of prisoners at Langensalza prisoner of war... dating from 1919 in the series Foreign Office: Prisoners of War and Aliens Department: General Correspondence from.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- FO 383/496
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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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Germany: Prisoners, including:
Shooting of prisoners at Langensalza prisoner of war camp, containing:
- Note verbale from German Government.
- Report on the judgement of the commission of enquiry into complaints regarding the treatment of prisoners of war.
- Statement by the Netherlands Legation on steps taken on receipt of news of the incident.
- Text of report (in French) by German authorities on the treatment of prisoners at Langensalza prisoner of war camp.
Trial and execution of Captain Charles Fryatt: request to the German Government for documents relevant to the case.
Execution of four British Marines (William Hamilton, Bernard Hepburn, William Bunting and William Lockhead), for the alleged murder of a German soldier: British Foreign Office complaint regarding the witholding of information on the case by the German War Office; details of statement given by Father Mollis of Frankfurt-on-Oder, interviewed by British Military Mission.
Irish Brigade movement in Germany: statements by Private Michael McDonagh of 2nd Leinster Regiment and Private John Mahony of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, including intelligence information and a list of the names and regiments of men who volunteered for service in Egypt.
Reply from Prussian Ministry of War to allegations by the British Government of a deliberate witholding of information relating to the execution of four members of the Royal Marine Division.
Court of Enquiry proceedings held between 15 February and 19 March 1919 to record statements on the alleged ill-treatment of Indian prisoners captured by Germans in East Africa.
German report on the execution of the four British Marines (William Hamilton, Bernard Hepburn, William Bunting and William Lockhead) accused of murdering German gunner, Fritz Wössner.
Code 1218 File 7 (papers 5471-6136).
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- File 7 (pp.5471-6136).
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