Germany: Prisoners, including: Reports on visits of inspection to prisoner of war...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Reports on visits of inspection to prisoner of war camps in the UK by Dr A de Sturler and Monsieur R de Sturler of the Swiss Legation during March 1919:

• Dorchester prisoner of war camp, Dorset; includes a poster displaying the official price list intended for British prisoner of war camp canteens (in docket no. 4776).
• Beachley prisoner of war camp, South Wales.

Reports on visits of inspection to prisoner of war camps in the UK by Monsieur Corragioni d'Orelli, Swiss Legation, during March and April 1919:

• Stone camp, Staffordshire.
• Bilston (Ettingshall) camp, near Wolverhampton, Warwickshire;
• Summerford Hall camp, near Brewood, [Staffordshire];
• Wrottesly camp, near Godsall, Warwickshire.
• Brocton prisoner of war camp hospital, Staffordshire.

Delivery delays to prisoners' correspondence: statement by British Director of Military Intelligence attributing delays to the failings of postal systems outside the UK.

Complaint by German Government regarding conditions at the 333rd Prisoner of War Company and request for permission to relieve Wilhelm Bartsch of his duties.

Petition by prisoners at Featherston prisoner of war camp, New Zealand, requesting early release.

Conditions at Maadi Tura and Sidi Bishr prisoner of war camps in Egypt; includes a report by a medical orderly named Lappe on his personal recollections of internment at Maadi Tura.

British response to alleged ill-treatment of German prisoners of war at Manchester military hospital.

British response to petition by prisoners at Brocton prisoner of war camp, Staffordshire.

German request for statement from British Government regarding alleged irregularities in postal deliveries to prisoner of war camps in Egypt.

Reports on visits of inspection to prisoner of war camps in the UK by Dr A de Sturler and Monsieur R de Sturler of the Swiss Legation during April and May 1919:

• Pattishall prisoner of war camp, Northamptonshire.
• Shrewsbury, Pennerley and Ellesmere prisoner of war camps, Shropshire;
• Frongogh and Bathafarm Hall prisoner of war camps, North Wales;
• Islington internment camp, London;
• Bidston prisoner of war camp, Cheshire;
• Oswestry prisoner of war camp and hospital, Shropshire;
• Halstead, Marks Tey, Coggeshall, West Mersey [West Mersea], Steeple Bumstead, Tendring and Stratford St Mary prisoner of war camps, Essex;
• Bures, Glemsford, Walsham le Willows, Bulcamp and Kettleburgh prisoner of war camps, Suffolk;
• Kenninghall, Billingford, Lakenham, Long Stratton, Aldborough, Honing, Whitwell, North Elmham, Gressenhall, Shouldham, Wereham, King's Lynn, Sutton Bridge, Holbeach, Burnham Market, Snettisham, Docking and Gayton prisoner of war camps, Norfolk.

Report on visit of inspection by Monsieur Corragioni d'Orelli, Swiss Legation, to Penshurst prisoner of war camp, Kent, on 31 March 1919.

Request by German Government for representation by the Swiss Legation to visit British prisoner of war companies and camps in France.

Note verbale from German Government regarding conditions at Stobs prisoner of war hospital, near Hawick, Roxburghshire.

Code 1218 File 206 (papers 4776-5986).

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