Catalogue description Netherlands: Prisoners, including: Provisioning of British prisoners of war in Holland:...

Netherlands: Prisoners, including:

Provisioning of British prisoners of war in Holland: arrangements for supply of fuel, grain, food and utensils, including:

• Newspaper cutting of article from La Gazette de Hollande entitled 'Foreigners in Holland: The Food Scarcity', dated 30 March 1918.
• Rations and insufficient food supplies at Groningen prisoner of war camp: letters of complaint from H Tebbitt of North London, Charles Darnell of Groningen prisoner of war camp and his father, James William Darnell of Grimsby.
• Letter of complaint regarding food rations at Groningen prisoner of war camp forwarded by the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen and signed by Charles Darnell, H W Rayner, H Lucker, J Carrat, John F Dale and Charles E Hanard.
• Diet sheet showing meal rations for week ending 26 May 1918, for prisoners at Groningen prisoner of war camp.
• Report by the British Legation to The Hague, dated 4 June 1918, giving details of current provisioning of Groningen prisoner of war camp and outlining proposals for improvements.
• Details of food requirements of British prisoners and lists of firms to which such stocks should be consigned.
• Translation of article from De Tijd newspaper, dated 20 July 1918, regarding the dissatisfaction of Belgian and British prisoners with rations supplied by Dutch Government.
• Diet sheet for July 1918, showing inadequacy of food supplied to prisoners in Dutch prisoner of war camps.
• Proposal to feed unsmoked, pickled herrings to British prisoners in Holland: opposition of Prisoners of War Department of the British War Office.
• List giving details of the contents of parcels to be sent to Indian civilian prisoners interned in Holland.
• Details of rations issued to civilians interned at Nijmegen prisoner of war camp: diet sheets for period 15 July to 18 August 1918 and from 16 to 29 September 1918.
• Details of rations issued to interned non-commissioned officers and men for period 12 to 19 August 1918.
• Eric C B Hancock, civilian interned in Holland: letter from his father, C B C Hancock, requesting action regarding the inadequacy of current rations and seeking advice on sending food parcels to his son.
• Letter from Charles Walker of the Admiralty quoting recommended average dietary requirements and proposing that current bread rations should be doubled.
• Arrangements for payment for foodstuffs sent to Holland.
• Letters from Edith S Strachan, expressing concern over the case of her husband, Lionel R M Strachan, and the fact that despite assurances to the contrary, rations to British prisoners of war in Holland have not improved.
• Arrangements for despatch of khaki cloth for prisoners of war interned in Holland.

Accommodation for British prisoners of war in Holland:

• Communication from Sir Walter Townley regarding financial negotiations over payment of profits to housing syndicate.
• Signature of contracts for the construction by Karel van Bylandt Straat, of buildings capable of accommodating 1000 British prisoners of war.
• Correspondence and notes on contracts between Dutch Government and the National Grondbezit to accommodate British prisoners of war.
• Copy of document entitled 'Agreement between the State and National Grondbezit in regard to the Housing and Boarding of British interned Prisoners of War', dated 12 January 1918.
• Draft contract with proprietors of hotels at Scheveningen for board and lodging of British officer prisoners of war and one British officers' servant per ten officers.
• Contract for housing British civilians interned at Nijmegen.
• Interest on sums advanced by Dutch Government in connection with internment of prisoners of war.
• Press cutting of article published in La Gazette de Holland entitled 'Netherlands and Foreign Credits: Payments for Interned Prisoners, Why should the Netherlands Advance the money?', dated 23 August 1918.
• Advances from Dutch Government respecting the expenses incurred in accommodating prisoners of war.

Code 1229 Files 614-817.