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- 1917 (Creation)
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Germany: Prisoners, including: Receipt and return of parcels sent to British prisoners in Germany including cases of pilfering and non-delivery. Pay and treatment of First Lieutenant zur See d. R. Breithaupt, prisoner in New South Wales. Gifts of alcoholic drinks allowed in German internment camps and reciprocal arrangement in British camps. Detention of Count Paul Wolff-Metternich in the UK. Repatriation of Professor Dr A Peter of Amani, South West Africa, Director of the Botanical Gardens at Gottingen. Transmission to Switzerland of trunk of Lieutenant d. Reserve E. Radtke. Repatriation of Reserve Ernst Heinrich Weiss of Colaba Hospital, Bombay. Suggestion by Mrs Townsend, wife of Major E N Townsend, interned at Crefeld, that visits of relatives be restricted to allow for more prisoners in the camp. Oaths administered to prisoners of war in German East Africa concerning parole. Treatment of German civilians and property in the Cameroons and Togoland. Sentence of imprisonment passed on Captain Desmond D. Barry of the Highland Light Infantry interned in Wesel, and ensuing case. Detention at Fort Napier of the lawyer, Arnold Weisse of Lüderitzbucht. Receipt of parcels by prisoners serving imprisonment sentences. Care of British interests in Germany and German interests in Australia by US Consul. Pension for wife of Robert Parkinson, prisoner at Dülmen. Proof of existence of Driver Harold Sugden. Parcels for Russian prisoners in Germany. Enquiry from Henry D. Bell concerning delivery of parcels to his son Lieutenant R M Bell, of 2nd Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers, interned at Friedberg. Enquiry from French Ministry of War concerning a pro-German French soldier named Batte (or Batt). Exchange of Captain Foulkes, 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Regiment, interned at Gutersloh for German prisoner of war. Death of Private J Greenwood, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and other soldiers at Dülmen and subsequent investigation and inspection. Relief of indigent East African prisoners at Ahmednagar. Remittance to Herr von Busse, interned at Ahmednagar. Code 1218 Files 62216 (papers 218713-end)-74659.
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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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