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- 1915 (Creation)
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Germany: Prisoners, including: Exchange of British retired officers in Germany, including: Colonel Stratton, Lord de Ramsey and Colonel Hemans; enquiries, proposals and arrangements regarding possible exchange for German officers. Release of German officers, including Major Kremnitz and Erich Kurt Karbe from Wakefield, Hugo Lobst Falke (real name Hugo Lobst von Feilitzsch), and Kurt von Weller from Knockaloe. Brigadier-General Bradley. Major Ponsonby Shaw at Celle. Correspondence from infected camps in Germany. Douglas Rooke, Victoria Barracks, Windsor: enquiries regarding return of his property from Dresden. Canadian prisoners in Germany: includes list of individuals (in docket no. 73506); arrangements for distribution of 'comforts'. Insurance of property and buildings of Germans in London, including German Embassy buildings. Rent due respecting German Embassy buildings in London. John Kretzschmer, German subject of Zehlendorf Mitte: request for documents relative to his deceased son, Hermann Kretzschmer, late of Australia, and his son's marriage to Euphrosine Mary Grieve, resident in Sydney. George William Crossan, teacher of boxing at Hamburg, imprisoned in Germany: trial and sentence for charge of espionage; two years penal servitude for attempting to betray military secrets. Red Cross visits to prisoners' camps, including: Suggested reciprocal visits of belligerent representatives to prisoners' camps. Inspection of prisoners' camps by Red Cross ladies. Visits to prisoners' camps: view that if permission granted then Red Cross Prisoners of War Committee would prefer for men rather than women to make visits. Fraulein Rotten: proposed visits to prisoners' camps in UK; report that she is not a Swiss member of Red Cross but a German subject and a member of various committees in Berlin looking after foreigners in Germany. Visits to prisoners by members of Red Cross Societies: War Office opposition to proposal for exchange visits. Exchange of visits by Red Cross ladies to prisoners' camps. Walter Gorlitz, German subject residing in Charlbury, Oxfordshire: enquiries regarding his property in German South West Africa. Medical treatment of German prisoners in South Africa, in particular at Pietermaritzburg. Encashment of English cheques: includes list of individuals and amounts (in docket no. 74698). Repayment of advance made in Germany: enquiry from African Banking Corporation Ltd regarding a cheque made out to an 'alien enemy', Mr J Zweigenhaft. Fund established for the purpose of cashing drafts upon English letters of credit, etc. Code 1218 File 72744-74698.
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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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