Item FO 383/163 - Germany: Prisoners, including: German prisoners in British or British Empire custody, including: Flogging of Germans...

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FO 383/163

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Germany: Prisoners, including: German prisoners in British or British Empire custody, including: Flogging of Germans...

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  • 1916 (Creation)

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Germany: Prisoners, including: German prisoners in British or British Empire custody, including: Flogging of Germans at Rabaul, New Britain: medical report and legal opinion. Reports on prisoners' camps at Wakefield, Yorkshire; Donington Hall, Leicestershire; Dyffryn Aled, Abergele, Denbighshire, Wales; Handforth, Cheshire; Douglas, Isle of Man; and Knockaloe, Isle of Man. Transfer of prisoners under sentence from Isle of Man to Liverpool. Internment camps at Malta and Stratford, London: complaints by internees. Internment of German women and children in India. Treatment of German prisoners at the camp at Trial Bay, New South Wales, Australia. Conditions in the internment camp at Tenom, North Borneo. Punishment for attempted escapes from places of internment. Correspondence of German prisoners at Ahmednagar, India; and complaints about the camp. Printed despatch from the Government of India concerning the treatment of German subjects at Ahmednagar. Employment of Germans interned in Canada. Treatment of German prisoners in Canada; example of Amherst Camp, Nova Scotia. Punishment of German prisoners in South Africa. Internment camp at Liverpool, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Work voluntarily undertaken by German civilian prisoners. Lieutenant Thomas von Grote: his attempted escape from internment at Holyport, Berkshire, and sentence of nine months imprisonment at Chelmsford Detention Barracks. His protestation against long sentence. Report on Libury Hall German Farm Colony, Ware, Hertfordshire. Otto Schwerbrock, interned at Ahmednagar Camp, India: sentenced to two years' hard labour for being drunk and violent and resisting arrest. Treatment of German civilians in the Civilian Internment Camp at Fort Henry, near Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Provision of food at Pietermaritzburg Camp, Union of South Africa. Conditions at the Lower Southern Hospital for prisoners at Dartford, Kent. Food supplied to prisoners at Wakefield. Publication of reports on prisoners' camps in Britain. Treatment of German civilians on board steamship Akassa , while being transported from Nigeria, Dahomey, Togoland and the Gold Coast to Liverpool, England. Treatment of German prisoners in Jamaica. Restriction of conversation at Liverpool Camp, New South Wales, Australia. Report on prisoners' working stations in the Isle of Man. Code 1218 File 591 (papers 59444-180079).

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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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