Item FO 383/277 - Germany: Prisoners, including: Reports of visits of inspection to the following internment camps and prison...

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FO 383/277

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Germany: Prisoners, including: Reports of visits of inspection to the following internment camps and prison...

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Germany: Prisoners, including: Reports of visits of inspection to the following internment camps and prison hospitals: St George's Barracks, Bermuda (2 reports), with complaints from various prisoners. Colsterdale. Sandhill Park. Brocton Hospital. Nell Lane Hospital. Port Clarence. Penston. Rosyth. Glendevon. Kinlochleven. Rowrah. Newlandside. Dawyck. Bee Craigs. Wakerley. Dartford. Colney Hatch. Belmont Hospital (2 reports). Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland. Rochford Agricultural Depot. Richborough, Kent. Hendon. Lewisham Military Hospital. Winchester. Codford. Fovant. Larkhill. Sutton Veny. Upavon. Blandford. Milldown. Corton. Dorchester. Libury Hall. Pattishall. Shirley Rink, Southampton. Bevois Mount. Leigh. Knightwick. Shelsley-Walsh. Erdiston. Peopleton. Bulford. Hermitage. Bwlch, South Wales. Port Talbot. Stratford-on-Avon. Ross-on-Wye. Shirehampton. Kerry, North Wales. Banbury. Glendon. Douglas, Isle of Man. Knockaloe, Isle of Man. Pietermaritzburg Camp, South Africa: information on letters and parcels received at camp. Ahmednagar: refusal of the Government of Bombay to supply certain drugs to German military doctors interned at Ahmednagar, India; related correspondence from the India Office. Letter from Oberst [Colonel] Leibrock, interned at Donington (or Donnington) Hall. Pietermaritzburg Camp, South Africa: complaints from German prisoners interned at camp; report of riots at the camp. Oberstleutnant von Brunner: information on the delay in delivery of letters to prisoners at Coltersdale Camp. Paul Buchwald: allegations concerning the treatment of civilian prisoners when being repatriated to Germany. Verdala, Malta: observations by War Office on conditions in the internment camp at Verdala. Kapitänleutnant A Boecker: confirmation that parcels and letters had been delivered to him at Kegworth Camp. Transfer of funds by German Government to the German Aid Society in Johannesburg, South Africa. Max Heiduk, interned at Bermuda: enquiry about the non-delivery of a postcard to him. Ahmednagar: letter, with a number of signatures (in docket no. 198640) of prisoners interned in Ahmednagar Camp, India, enquiring about the non-receipt of mail from German East Africa. Ahmednagar: German memorandum requesting the evacuation of German prisoners from the internment camp at Ahmednagar, India. Amherst: complaint by German authorities about quantity and quality of food supplied to prisoners interned at Amherst, Canada. Statement of complaints provided by the German authorities regarding various British camps. Kapitänleutnant R Mühlbauer: request by German Government for the repayment of expenses incurred by him for medical treatment. Enquiries from the German Government regarding B H Rohls, a naturalised British citizen, and the internment of German civilians at Reading. Protest by the German Government against restrictions on the correspondence of prisoners interned at Ahmednagar and Kataphar in India. Donington Hall: allegations of dampness in the huts at Donington Hall internment camp for officers, with a printed copy of a Red Cross report (French language) dated June 1917. Code 1218 File 525 (papers 137007-end).

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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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