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- 1916 (Creation)
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Germany: Prisoners, including: German prisoners in British or British Empire custody, including: German prisoners at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield: delay in their receipt of correspondence. Disciplinary measures taken at Dorchester Camp. Memorandum on Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man. Flogging of Germans at Rabaul, New Britain, in punishment for assaulting the Reverend Dr Cox. Internment camp at Tenom, North Borneo. August Arndt and Adolf Kempe, sentenced for escaping. Alleged ill-treatment of German women and children in Britain: detailed report in tabular form by Home Office regarding each allegation. Postal arrangements for prisoners. Lieutenant Dix and Lieutenant Nothnagel: return of their swords. Transfer of German prisoners and interned civilians from Hong Kong to Australia. Interned Germans at Alexandra Palace, London. Report by US Embassy staff on their visit to the four camps for civilian prisoners at Knockaloe, Isle of Man. Treatment of Germans brought to Britain from Africa. Reports on internment camps at Douglas, Isle of Man, and at Stobs, near Hawick, Roxburghshire. Request for free parcel postage to prisoners. Conditions in prisoners' camps at Stratford, London, and in Malta. Postal regulations for prisoners interned in South West Africa. Flogging of Germans at the prisoners' camp at Torrens Island, South Australia. Officer prisoners' camps at Holyport, Berkshire, and Handforth, Cheshire. Alleged ill-treatment of German prisoners in Canada; reports on camps. Reports on prisoners' camps at Eastcote, Northamptonshire; Leigh, Lancashire; and Cornwallis Road, Upper Holloway, London. Prisoners' camps in India at Ahmednagar and Belgaum. Request by the Reverend A O T Hellerström to visit prisoners' camps. International Committee of the Red Cross, printed report (in French) of its representatives' visits to camps at Dorchester, Donington Hall, Frith Hill, Handforth, Leigh, Knockaloe and Douglas. Hospital for wounded prisoners at Dartford, Kent. Gosch Loy Ehlers, interned at Oldcastle Camp, County Meath, Ireland. Code 1218 File 591 (to paper 58828).
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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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