Item FO 383/56 - Germany: Prisoners, including: Detention of medical personnel: general papers, with individual cases, including: Retention of...

Germany: Prisoners, including: Detention of medical personnel: general papers, with individual cases, including: Retention of medical service personnel in enemy's hands. Capt H E Priestley, military doctor, Royal Army Medical Corps, interned at Wittenburg: representations for his release on health grounds, from his brother-in-law, J P Blake, Hon. Secretary, National League of Young Liberals; later report from German authorities that he is to face a military court of enquiry and cannot be permitted to return. Capt Philip Davy, Royal Army Medical Corps, interned at Gardelegen: representations for his release on health grounds, from his sister, Miss Kathleen T Davy, of Taunton. Exchange of sanitary service personnel. German medical service personnel fallen into hands of the Russians. Detention of Capt Priestley, Capt Vidal, and Capt Lauder, Royal Army Medical Corps. Mrs Lotte Schneider, in Germany: request by Arthur J Speer, of London, for assistance to send remittances to Mrs Schneider, wife of his business partner, Arthur Schneider, interned with British civil prisoners at Ruhleben. Disposal of German prisoners at conclusion of war: enquiries from the Governor of Jamaica; also Canada. H H Gastrell, late HM Consul at Stuttgart: payments in connection with rent of his house and the consulate. German named Russell, reported as being shot at Lichtenburg, South Africa, as a German spy. W H Freran, of Tranmere, Cheshire: compensation claim for furniture and personal effects in Mannheim. Lieut Cecil H J Chichester-Constable, Royal Warwickshire Regiment: sentence to five months imprisonment in Germany; enquiry from his mother, Edith Chichester-Constable, of Hull; report of circumstances; question of publicity for case. Rev C F Mynhardt (or Mijnhardt), Dutch minister of religion, in German East Africa since beginning of war: return to South Africa; suggestion for interview to provide information regarding German resources; includes press article, with photograph of Rev Mynhardt, from the Johannesburg Sunday Times. Dr Diedrich Westermann, of General Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Church of the USA: return to Germany; request for safe-conduct. Transfer to Bermuda of 4,000 civilian prisoners interned in UK. Cecil von Hafen, civil prisoner of war at Ruhleben: request for money to be sent to him; enquiry from Josiah Wedgwood

The National Archives >> Records created or inherited by the Foreign Office >> Records of various First World War Departments >> Foreign Office: Prisoners of War and Aliens Department: General Correspondence from 1906

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