Item FO 383/53 - Germany: Prisoners, including: Patrick O'Brien Hendley: agent and broker of Liverpool: correspondence regarding return of...

Germany: Prisoners, including: Patrick O'Brien Hendley: agent and broker of Liverpool: correspondence regarding return of his wife Agnes Hendley, and children Carolus Patricius Hendley and Kilian Maria Hendley, alleged to have been at Verden in Hanover and but understood to have returned to UK; enquiries from Liverpool Police. Private John J Bramble, Lancashire Fusiliers: trial in Germany for alleged assault and insubordination whilst at Spandau camp. Finnish missionaries in German South West Africa: requests for information from Finnish Missionary Society; arrangements for relief. Crews of ss Garesfield and ss Leversons , interned at Ruhleben: relief payments. Mr F Lucke, British subject of German parents, detained at Suez following removal from ss Egypt : enquiries regarding his nationality. Letters sent home through Italy by German prisoners. Daggers found in parcels sent from Germany to German civilians detained in France. Prof Hermann Waetjen, Professor of History at University of Heidelberg, detained in England: request for literary notes at Heidelberg required for a book. Crown leases in the Channel Islands: Herm and Guernsey. Godfrey Samuelson, interned in Ruhleben: arrangements for service of process on Mr Samuelson regarding money claims from members of London Stock Exchange. German prisoners in Australia: German Government enquiries regarding numbers and locations. Expenses of US Consul-General, Antwerp, in connection with British wounded. J Foster Kell, exporter and manufacturer of Streatham Park, London, interned at Ruhleben: letter outlining circumstances of arrest before outbreak of war, and notifying intention for claiming compensation. Crews of auxiliary cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse and coal steamer Bethania , interned as prisoners of war at Kingston, Jamaica: German request for names. Karl Albrecht (or C Albrecht), interned at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield: enquiries regarding recovery of money taken from him when arrested in the Cameroons. Danish firm of Edmund Troost, at Lüderitzbucht, German South West Africa: enquiries regarding interests, business premises and stock; also enquiries from the firm's owner, Countess Stéphanie Trampe (née Twilde; wife of Jørgen Theodor Count Trampe) of Raadegaard, Denmark, regarding her property there. Richard Heckman, German subject detained in UK: request by French military authorities that he be handed over to the French as a prisoner of war, accused of spying in Algiers; also case of Jacob Millhouse, detained as 'likely to become dangerous', as both individuals over military age limit; includes personal details of Millhouse (in docket no. 100128). Giorgio Nunes, supposed to be in German East Africa, acting as a courier for the Italian Consulate, Mombassa: request from his father, Leonino Nunes, that his son be permitted to proceed without interference to German territory. Mrs Margaret Hasset, of Wolverhampton: anonymous allegation of her being a German spy. Numbers of German prisoners of war detained in England, France and Russia. British prisoners at Ruhleben: intention by John Hatfield of Sutton, Surrey, to establish an information bureau for benefit of relatives and to assist prisoners; includes first two bulletins. Capt Archibald Montgomery-Campbell, retired British military officer interned in Germany: representations that he be transferred to an officers' camp; correspondence and remittances for Mrs J D Leather Culley, of Belford, Northumberland; reported transfer to Ruhleben; possible inclusion in exchange of incapacitated officers. Consulate General at Rotterdam: complaints of insufficient arrangements; also Consulate at Amsterdam. Monthly returns from Germany of British subjects: arrangements. Clothing and uniforms for British prisoners in Germany: general arrangements, and individual requests from British prisoners of war, including: Colonel S C F Jackson, Hampshire Regiment, at Burg bei Magdeburg: request from his wife, Lucy B Jackson, of Penzance. Private E Varley, King's Own Scottish Borderers, at Salzwedel. Private W F Smith, Worcestershire Regiment, at Ohrdruf in Thuringen. Capt Crooke, Royal Army Medical Corps, at Merseberg camp. Corporal A Booker, Royal Scots Fusiliers, at Sudezollhaus camp, Schleswig. Private J Burns, at Langensalza. Private A Galloway, at Langensalza. Irish Fusiliers at Rennbahn and Limburg. British and Indian officers at Osnabrück. Code 1218 File 15801-23992 (to paper 52365).

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