Germany: Prisoners, including: Correspondence on the submission of reports relating...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Correspondence on the submission of reports relating to prisoner of war camps in Australia and India.

Conditions at British prisoner of war camps: report by Dr A de Sturler on inspection of the officer prisoner of war camp at Oswestry in Shropshire, dated 1 December 1918.

Response of German Government to reports on conditions at British prisoner of war camps:

• Officers' prisoner of war camp at Colsterdale.
• Officers' prisoner of war camp at Sandhill Park in Somerset.
• Delays in delivery of remittances to German prisoners interned at Maadi in Egypt and Knockaloe on the Isle of Man.
• German allegations regarding conditions at Manchester Military Hospital for prisoners of war.

Delivery delays to prisoners' correspondence: statements by the British Director of Military Intelligence and British General Post Office, attributing extent of delays to failings of postal systems outside the United Kingdom.

Reports on visits of inspection to British prisoner of war camps during March 1919, by Dr A de Sturler:

• Cummor prisoner of war camp, Charlbury.
• Deddington and Hook Norton prisoner of war camps, Oxfordshire.
• Watlington prisoner of war camp, Oxfordshire.
• Enstone prisoner of war camp, Oxfordshire.
• Burton-on-Trent prisoner of war camp, Staffordshire.
• Bretby Hall prisoner of war camp, near Burton, Derbyshire.
• Sudbury, Etwall and Willinton prisoner of war camps, Derbyshire.
• Loughborough, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Ragdale, Narborough and Normanton Hall prisoner of war camps, Leicestershire.
• Kilburn Hall prisoner of war camp, Derbyshire.
• Plumtree, East Leake, Woodborough, Papplewick and Norton prisoner of war camps near Cuckney, Nottinghamshire.
• Kelham, Carlton-on-Trent, Ossington and Halam prisoner of war camps, Nottinghamshire.
• Nell Lane Hospital at Leigh in Lancashire and Handforth in Cheshire.

Reports on visits of inspection to officers' prisoner of war camps by Dr F Schwyzer, Dr A L Vischer and Dr A de Sturler during February and March 1919:

• Ripon, Skipton and Lofthouse Park prisoner of war camps, Yorkshire.
• Kegworth and Donington Hall prisoner of war camps, Derbyshire.

Reports on visits of inspection to prisoner of war camps in England by Monsieur de Corragioni d'Orelli, during March 1919:

• Tonbridge prisoner of war camp, Kent.
• Marshmoor Siding prisoner of war camp, near Mims, Hatfield in Hertfordshire.

Petition from prisoners at Brocton prisoner of war camp in Staffordshire urging their quick release.

Note from German Government on statement of prisoner of war, August Pabst, regarding non-delivery of parcels from his family in France.

Note by the British Army Council on conditions at Colsterdale prisoner of war camp.

Reports on visits of inspection to British prisoner of war camps during March and April 1919, by Dr A de Sturler and Monsieur R de Sturler:

• Blandford and Milldown prisoner of war camps, Dorset.
• Louds Mill prisoner of war camp, Dorchester.
• Stowell and Glastonbury prisoner of war camps, Somerset.
• Itton prisoner of war camp, near Chepstow, Monmouthshire.
• Usk prisoner of war camp, Monmouthshire.
• Abergavenny, Hermitage, Llangvenny, Bwlch, Breckon and Talgarth prisoner of war camps, Brecknockshire.
• Abbeydore and Churchdown prisoner of war camp, Herefordshire.

Code 1218 File 206 (papers 3405-4775).

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