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Germany: Prisoners, including: Conditions at Dar-es-Salaam prisoner of war camp:...
Catalogue reference: FO 383/508
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FO 383/508
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1919
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Germany: Prisoners, including:
Conditions at Dar-es-Salaam prisoner of war camp: note from German Government with statements from individuals testifying to ill-treatment and robbery of prisoners.
British permission for Swiss representative to visit British prisoner of war camps in France.
Reports on visits of inspection to prisoner of war camps in the United Kingdom by Dr A de Sturler and Monsieur R de Sturler during June 1919:
- Frongogh, Penarth, Pembrey, Beaumaris, Deganwy, Towyn, Machynlleth, Caersws, Brynkhir Hall, Maltreath Marsh, Llanengan and Ely prisoner of war camps, Wales.
- Frodsham and Thornton le Moor prisoner of war camps, Cheshire.
- Bigger Bank and Northend prisoner of war camps, Lancashire.
- Milnethorpe and Kendal prisoner of war camps, Westmorland.
- Wasdale Head prisoner of war camp, Cumberland.
- Whitley Bay prisoner of war camp, near Tynemouth, Northumberland.
- East Bouldon prisoner of war camp, near Sunderland, Durham.
German Government request that Kapuskasing prisoner of war camp be visited monthly.
British response to alleged abuses at Stobs prisoner of war camp, near Hawick, Roxburghshire.
Reports on visits of inspection by Monsieur Corragioni d'Orelli to prisoner of war camps in the United Kingdom during June 1919:
- Officers' prisoner of war camp at Holyport, Berkshire.
- Berkhampstead, Cotlands, Gemmaes Court, Hatfield, Hemel Hempstead and St Albans prisoner of war camps, Hertfordshire.
- Hersham prisoner of war camp, Surrey.
- Chertsey prisoner of war camp, Surrey.
Treatment of members of German Navy interned at Lofthouse Park prisoner of war camp, Wakefield, Yorkshire.
Shooting of German prisoner, Willi Oster, formerly interned at Oswestry prisoner of war camp, Shropshire.
Request by German Government for British statement regarding alleged incidents at Oswestry prisoner of war camp, Shropshire.
Proposed investigation and report by Commandant of the King's African Rifles into conditions at Dar-es-Salaam prisoner of war camp.
Arrangements for new postal communication route for mail deliveries to German prisoners of war in Egypt.
Lieutenant Keseling: attempted suicide at Oswestry prisoner of war camp, Shropshire.
Lieutenant Tarnow: attempted escape from Oswestry prisoner of war camp, Shropshire.
German request for investigation into the unusual numbers of deaths through heart failure among prisoners of 211th Prisoners of War Company.
Code 1218 File 206 (papers 5993-end).
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File 206 (pp.5993-end).
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