Germany: Prisoners, including: Search for prisoners of war missing or sick in Germany,...

FO 383/499

1919

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Search for prisoners of war missing or sick in Germany, including:

• Public concern over alleged concealed prisoner of war camps in Germany: telegram from Mr Robertson at The Hague on difficulty of allaying public anxieties.
• Letter from Sir Arthur Stanley requesting that a list of the sick in Germany might be published.
• Letter from the Cameron Highlanders Prisoner of War Care Committee requesting that a thorough search be made of all hospitals for any wounded.
• Memorandum by Major General Sir J Adye setting forth a scheme to combine local search parties with relief parties distributing food to the German population.
• Official assurance of German Government that rumours of concealment of prisoners are groundless: copy of extract from telegram of General Dupont to General Nudant, dated 15 January 1919.
• Draft press communiqué relating to efforts to trace missing prisoners of war.
• Draft reply to question to be asked by Earl Fortescue in the House of Lords relating to results of the search for the missing; provides updated statistics for the numbers of men traced and those still missing.
• Report (with 3 appendices) by the sub-committee on search for the missing British prisoners of war; appendix 1 lists the cases of 26 missing prisoners: W F Bullen; G Hargreaves-Brown; H H Eales White; G R A Fetherstonhaugh; J D Fowler; Lieutenant Mann; J L Mansel; C Orme Stacke; S Podmore; A Rhodes; H H Shanwood; G H Stevenson; Captain Wawn; Dennis Daly-Wilson; Lieutenant Young; Major Brock-Hollinshead; 2nd Lieutenant Gibbons; Captain Hutchinson; W A C Bucknal; J N Bromlow; E Deacon; Lord Hugh Grosvenor; W O'Sullivan; Percy Pettigrue; Hon. R S Stuart; Captain M Wickham.
• Arrangements for Dame Adelaide Livingstone's visit to Germany to search for the missing.
• Correspondence with Dame Adelaide Livingstone relating to the proposed search mission.
• Proposed parliamentary inquiry; includes printed copy of article from The Times, dated 23 May 1919, entitled 'Missing prisoners of war: inquiry to be urged'.

British War Office instructions, dated 30 October 1918, announcing the scale of rations applicable to prisoners of war.

British War Office instructions, dated 16 January 1918, relating to the internment and treatment of enemy subjects.

Communication between German prisoners of war and British subjects: letter from Mr William Stern of Manchester requesting permission to send letters to Mrs S Herman of Aachen, Germany, and Rudolf Herzog, a German prisoner of war held at Oswestry in England.

German War Office response to complaint by Mrs Bromley Davenport regarding alleged confiscation of medical comforts at Limburg a/Lahn prisoner of war camp.

Code 1218 Files 26 (papers 773-end)-43.

Files 26 (pp.773-end)-43.

Public Record(s)

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Topics

Internment

International

Army

Europe and Russia

Food and drink

Nationality

Communications

Rationing

Armed Forces (General Administration)