Item FO 383/276 - Germany: Prisoners, including: Transfer of prisoners from South West Africa, including: Protest by Dr Seitz,...

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FO 383/276

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Germany: Prisoners, including: Transfer of prisoners from South West Africa, including: Protest by Dr Seitz,...

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Germany: Prisoners, including: Transfer of prisoners from South West Africa, including: Protest by Dr Seitz, Governor of German South West Africa, and Lieutenant Colonel Franke about the proposed transfer. List of German officers and three attendants of other ranks (in docket no. 89096) who sailed from Cape Town to England on HMT Galway Castle. Claim by the German Government that the transport of the prisoners was contrary to the terms of the treaty of capitulation (the Khorab Agreement). Request for the German prisoners to be interned in Switzerland. List of German officers interned at Colsterdale Camp (in docket no. 158198). Hauptmann [Captain] Max Müller: query about deductions from officers' pay at Colsterdale. Question of the payment of postage and customs duty on letters and parcels sent to German prisoners in German South West Africa. Complaints from German officers interned at Trial Bay Detention Barracks, Australia. Enquiry by the German authorities about the treatment of German prisoners employed in the loading and unloading of steamers at Newcastle. Dental treatment for German prisoners in British camps. Postal regulations regarding the use of ruled writing paper for German prisoners on the island of Jersey. Conditions in the internment camp at Brandon, Manitoba. Reports of visits of inspection to the following internment camps: Feltham, Middlesex. Lark Hill, Salisbury Plain. Berrima Detention Barracks, New South Wales, Australia. Lower Southern Hospital, Dartford. Islington Camp, London. Kegworth, Derbyshire (2 reports). Blandford, Dorset. Dorchester. Panshanger. Libury Hall. Donnington Hall. Pattishall (2 reports). Woburn. Huntingdon. Douglas. Southill. Lewisham Military Hospital. Knockaloe, Isle of Man. Belton Park. Linton. Corby. Uppingham. Coal Aston Peak Dale Quarries. Yate. German memorandum on alleged irregularities in the delivery of parcels to the camps of Aus, Pietermaritzburg and Okanjande in German South West Africa. Complaint about the lack of provision of dental treatment for German prisoners interned at Lethbridge, Canada, and Pietermaritzburg, German South West Africa. Conditions at Ahmednagar Camp, India; proposal for some prisoners to be transferred to hill stations in Northern India. Confirmation that no German prisoners were employed at Newcastle. Complaints made by German prisoners interned at Berrima Barracks, New South Wales. German memorandum regarding conditions at Fort Henry, Canada. Dental treatment for German prisoners interned at Rouen and Stobs. Kapitän Leutnant L Mühlbauer: complaint about charges for medical treatment at Dartford Hospital. Albert Wolff, interned at Stratford: details of his illness and removal to the German Hospital, Dalston. Oldcastle Camp: German memorandum on conditions at camp. Request for clothing by prisoners at Dorchester Camp. Dental treatment for Unter Offizier Heinrich Reitler Request for an inspection of the internment camp at Verdala, Malta, and the military prison at Corodina. Amalgamation of internment camps at Stratford and Alexandra Palace. Dental treatment for prisoners at Pietermaritzburg Camp. Seaman Kasimir Wisniewski, interned at Leigh: enquiry about the reasons for successive sentences of imprisonment. Conditions at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man. Financial aid in India for prisoners from German East Africa. Report on complaints by German prisoners interned in South West Africa. [Note: printed copy of canteen price list: Army Canteen Committee, Official List of Prices for Prisoners of War Camps, June 1917 (in docket no. 129079)]. Code 1218 Files 500-525 (to paper 133873).

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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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