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Repatriation of prisoners of war, including: Expenses of the examiners of the Government...

Catalogue reference: FO 383/544

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This record is about the Repatriation of prisoners of war, including: Expenses of the examiners of the Government... dating from 1919 in the series Foreign Office: Prisoners of War and Aliens Department: General Correspondence from.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
FO 383/544
Date
1919
Description

Repatriation of prisoners of war, including:

Expenses of the examiners of the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War.

Appointment of a sub-committee to collect information concerning missing British prisoners who evaded capture and to whom refuge was given in Belgium.

Search for the missing.

Activities of the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War where the US Embassy is concerned.

Special expenses of delegations at Dover and Ripon in connection with the examination of repatriated prisoners of war.

Captain J S Hutchinson, 2nd Battalion South Lancashire Regiment: reported missing.

Correspondence regarding the request for repayment for the expenses incurred by Mr Justice Younger Committee: several dockets include letters from Robert Younger and Dame Adelaide Livingstone from the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War.

Attendance of officers and other ranks before the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War.

Correspondence regarding repayment and accounts for the expenditure of the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War.

Memorandum on the Work of the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War, report on visit to Switzerland, and list of unpublished reports by the committee.

Proposal to employ German ships from the Baltic, North Sea and Rotterdam ports for the repatriation of Russian and Romanian prisoners of war.

Repatriation route for allied prisoners of war escaping into Poland and medical assistance for French prisoners at Schneidesnald Camp.

Prisoners of war in Poland: interruption of railway communications between Poland and the Baltic.

Repatriation of French prisoners from Germany.

Censorship of correspondence sent via the Swiss Legation for Germans in the UK.

Examination of correspondence received in the Prisoners of War Department for transmission through diplomatic channels.

Censorship of letters between Germany and the UK.

Code 1250 Files 609-761.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Files 609-761.
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Subjects
Topics
Internment
International
Railways
Army
Europe and Russia
Medicine
Armed Forces (General Administration)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2617787/

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