Catalogue description France: Prisoners, including: Mr Cipolla, Italian military correspondent, reported as...

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Details of FO 383/17
Reference: FO 383/17
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France: Prisoners, including:

Mr Cipolla, Italian military correspondent, reported as being in England: instruction to monitor his movements should he decide to leave the UK for the continent.

Mrs Klara Lehmann (or Clara Lehmann): denounced to HM Consul General at San Francisco, as being a dangerous spy.

Richard Heckmann, German held in the UK: interrogatories addressed to him; includes resumé of police interview at Scotland Yard.

Mr J T Fitsichbaum, supposed spy said to be in London. includes police report.

Mr J H Wernicke, German subject: permission for him to return to the UK.

Mr N Allahverdi, Armenian by birth and a Turkish subject residing in France: permission for him to enter the UK.

British-born wives of enemy subjects interned in France: possible permission to return to UK.

Mrs Annie Eliza Reiser, British subject married to a German, and interned in France: possible return to the UK with her three sons; possibility of residing with her brother, William George Vinnicombe, of Brighton.

Captain Chinnery, Royal Flying Corps, Coldstream Guards: report of his death in aeroplane accident, France, January 1915.

Charles Samuel, merchant connected with firm of Instone and Company of London, and regarded as a suspect in France: enquiries into Mr Samuel and the company.

Mother Prioress of Irish Convent at Ypres: request for permission to return there from the UK.

Richard Seger, native of Heligoland, interned in Algiers as a German subject, not having received his option to retain British nationality: case for consideration.

Mr Nussbaum, German-born maker of walking sticks in London: allegations of espionage.

Hugo Adolf Beck, German-born, naturalised British subject: detention at St Nazaire.

Hermann Marx, German agent: enquiry regarding his whereabouts.

Landing of friendly aliens in Bombay: suggestion that privileges granted to Italians be extended to French.

Claim of prisoners to be natives of Alsace-Lorraine, in order to join French Army: cases of Paul Burgy, Ludwig Friedrich Lasch, and Alfred Graff.

Gustav Kogel, in France: naturalised British subject interned in concentration camp in Loire: application from his wife for his release.

Detention of Aden Arabs in France: request to French Government for release, specifically in case of Said Salin-al-Khaishani-al-Shabi.

Arrest of suspected person in Bourg (Ain): case of Richard Charles Bradbury, claiming to be a British subject.

British subjects in France war area: request from Councillor Roberts of Royton near Oldham, for information regarding his relations at Roubaix; his sister Mary Ann Fearn and her husband George Fearn, and their son George Fearn (junior) and family, and their married daughter Miriam Taylor.

Internment in France of British subjects: case of E J Well, detained in concentration camp in France.

Escape of three German prisoners from French custody at Algiers.

Mrs Albert Trapani, wife of Maltese subject by ecclesiastical marriage, recently residing at Constantine, Algeria: detention as prisoner of war, and possible deportation to Germany; protest from her husband; views of French authorities as to validity of marriage.

Mrs Leroux, English subject in UK married to a French national, Corporal Ralph Leroux, a French Reservist: desire to travel to France to visit her wounded husband in hospital.

Albert Louis Adolphe Hoertz, German subject granted UK nationalisation while in the UK and now at St Malo: request for information as a suspected person.

Leon van Emden, in Lisbon bearing a British passport and describing himself as Dutch: suspected to be German following receipt of a postcard at hotel; includes postcard.

Emilo Brugsch, German subject at Nice, following service in Egyptian Government: letter to Lord Kitchener requesting intervention with French authorities to allow him to live in Nice.

Claim for compensation against France: claim by Damman & Co of St John's Wood, London, for expenses incurred relative to detention of their employee Mr Herschell.

Private William Henry King, Royal Horse Artillery (Army Reservist), deceased: transmission of property, military papers and identity disk.

Repatriation of British subjects from French occupied territories.

W Mills, 2nd Leinster Regiment: question of whereabouts of original will.

Permission for French Consul at Southampton to travel regularly between Portsmouth, Southampton and Isle of Wight, and for Rev Father Travers to go to Isle of Wight.

Madame Trelay, English by birth and married to a Frenchman and residing near Fecamp: desire to return to UK.

Mr J G Robins: desire to travel to France; arrangements for passport application.

Treatment of prisoners of war of Danish origin.

Dr Ernst, alleged German spy.

Alsace-Lorraine: preferential treatment for 'natives'; prisoners of war in UK.

Edouard Stern, Hungarian internee in France: request to come to UK.

Regulations concerning aliens in prohibited areas in UK.

Father Francois Mathis, Superior of Augustins of Assumption: request that he may be authorized to return to London from Paris.

Josef Wolff, businessman of Crabtree Bros & Lund of Bradford: detention in France as a German subject.

Achille Bigot, at Bethune: transmission of letter requesting permission to reside in UK.

Alfred C Harrison, of Broadstairs: enquiry regarding whereabouts and welfare of his wife and children, formerly in Roubaix, and now in Hersaux.

Deceased soldiers effects: transmission of property; includes list of individuals names with regiments and dates.

Private Belcher, Royal Berks Regiment: estate following his death.

Mr T Christ, naturalised British subject of German origin, late Conservator of Forests in Nigeria: application for release from detention in France.

Camille Fossion, Belgian subject detained in Brixton prison as a supposed German agent: petition to be handed over to French authorities.

Mr Jean Serour, interned at Précigné and claiming to be of Egyptian nationality: request for release in order to enlist in HM Forces.

Theodore Wallace, British subject imprisoned at Loos-les-Lille: correspondence with, and enquiries from his wife, Mrs M Wallace of Charing Cross, London.

Whereabouts of families of wounded French soldiers: enquiries submitted via the French Wounded Emergency Fund.

Treatment of German prisoners in France.

Reports by escaped German prisoners (Naval Lieutenants (Reserve) Berthold Sievers and Reinhold Blenkle) intended for the German Admiralty.

Code 1217.

Date: 1915
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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