Catalogue description Belgium: Prisoners, including: Taxation in Belgium: payment of taxes and rents for...

Belgium: Prisoners, including:

Taxation in Belgium: payment of taxes and rents for property in Belgium.

Treatment of British subjects in Brussels.

Felix Jeffes, British Vice-Consul, Brussels: report from his wife regarding him being the only English civilian prisoner at the Ecole Militaire at Brussels, and his treatment by the German authorities; later report regarding his liberation.

British women and children in Brussels.

Arrest of British subjects in Brussels: enquiry from Vice-Consul Ford regarding his parents.

Return of English women and children from Belgium and occupied territories: arrangements for their repatriation; includes lists of individuals.

Ill-treatment of British subjects at Liege.

Communications to US consuls at Roubaix and Rheims.

Angus Faulkner, British Vice-Consul at Croix, now in Rotterdam: request for his wife, Mrs J Faulkner in Croix, to be permitted to join him.

Departure of pupils from Namur.

Mrs Freckleton of Coventry: enquiry regarding her return from Belgium.

International Women's Relief Committee proposal to send certain American ladies to Belgium and France to assist the US Minister at Brussels in repatriation work.

Mrs Dickson (International Women's Relief Committee) and party of 70 women and children: reported departure from Belgium.

Miss Annie J Mahoney, pensioner at the Institut St Joseph (convent), near Brussels: possible repatriation.

Requests for assistance for repatriation of children:

• Mrs Nellie von Mehren, of West London: request for assistance to return her daughter Pauline von Mehren, aged 14 years, a colonial British subject, from a convent in Liege.
• Laurence and Kathleen Cooke, children in Belgium, aged 8 and 6 years: request from relatives for assistance to return them to England.
• Miss Bertha Connolly, aged 11, and her brother William Connolly, a trainer in the racing stables at Zulte: request from her father, John Connolly of Warrington.

Mrs Ellison and family of St Hubert Ardennes, and Mrs Helen Morris and daughter of Brussels: requests from relatives for their repatriation.

Patrick Meagher, student in Belgium, to become an ordained priest: enquiry about his whereabouts, to be enabled to leave Belgium for Ireland.

Extension of repatriation agreements to Belgium and British colonies.

Mr H R Morris, of Birmingham: arrival of wife and children from Belgium.

Code 1204 Files 5677-6976 (to paper 93575).