Item FO 383/497 - Germany: Prisoners, including: Ill-treatment of British prisoners of war captured by Germans in East Africa:...

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FO 383/497

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Germany: Prisoners, including: Ill-treatment of British prisoners of war captured by Germans in East Africa:...

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Germany: Prisoners, including: Ill-treatment of British prisoners of war captured by Germans in East Africa: despatch from the Government of India dated 4 June 1919 containing a statement by Lance Baik Sar Baz of the 57th Wilde's Rifles. Response of Prussian Ministry of War to complaints of conditions at prisoner of war camps, including: Elbingerode prisoner of war camp. Report on typhus epidemic at Wittenberg prisoner of war camp. Execution of Captain Charles Fryatt, former master of the Brussels : English translation of German report on the trial and execution of Captain Charles Fryatt, for alleged offence of having attempted to ram a German submarine. Correspondence from the Foreign Office to the Political Intelligence Department in an effort to trace a pamphlet on the death of Captain Fryatt. Copy of Admiralty order regarding the conduct of British merchant ships when attacked by German submarines. Halvidir Salim Khan of the 57th Rifles: statement regarding his ill-treatment by the Germans whilst a prisoner of war in East Africa. Mrs Gertrude Muller: letter testifying to the brutal treatment of British prisoners of war and their confinement to asylums, offering to send the addresses of the asylums. Babaji Bhiva Salekar of 101st Grenadiers: statement regarding his ill-treatment by the Germans whilst a prisoner of war in East Africa. Despatches from the Governor General of South Africa on the administration of relief to enemy subjects in German East Africa. Code 1218 Files 7 (papers 6159-end)-16.

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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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