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Repatriation of prisoners of war and reparation claims, including: Outbreak of influenza...
Catalogue reference: FO 383/542
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FO 383/542
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Date (When the record was created)
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1919
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Description (What the record is about)
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Repatriation of prisoners of war and reparation claims, including:
Outbreak of influenza on board the HMT Kursk, en route from Australia to Europe.
Transfer of money held in trust for German prisoners repatriated by the SS Willochra.
Particulars of deaths of German internees on board the HMT Kursk.
Repatriation of German subjects from:
- Protectorate of South West Africa.
- Jamaica.
- South Africa and other territories under the control of the High Commissioner for South Africa. This docket includes a nominal list of repatriated enemy subjects from Rhodesia.
- Rhodesia.
- United Kingdom, including Ottoman Turkish prisoners.
- Australia.
- Eastern Colonies.
Grant of certificates by the Prisoners of War Department to British civilians repatriated from enemy countries for the purpose of identification by the Local Food Control Committees in order to access rations.
References of repatriated British civilians from firms in enemy countries: case of R Williams who worked at the Vienna Bank.
Compensation of British prisoners and interned civilians and recovery of expenditure incurred by HM Government in Germany on behalf of British civilians at Ruhleben camp.
Question of repayment by enemy governments of the cost of maintenance of prisoners of war.
Costs of maintenance of prisoners of war.
Compensation for British civilians and indemnities to be obtained from enemy governments, including a Royal Proclamation extracted from the London Gazette requiring returns of British property in enemy territory and other claims.
Compensation for British civilians interned in enemy countries.
Compensation to civilians for war damage: procedure followed by the Belgian Government.
British claim for reparation against the German Government.
Code 1250 Files 321 (papers 6874-end)-384 (to paper 6395).
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Files 321 (pp.6874-end)-384 (to pp.6395).
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Open Document, Open Description
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