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Details of FO 383/43
Reference: FO 383/43
Description:

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Treatment of British prisoners and conditions in camps, including:

  • Treatment of British prisoners at Wurzburg camp.
  • Comforts and assistance for British prisoners: revised list of various funds and committees concerned with looking after prisoners of war; includes printed copy.
  • British section of the 'Bureau de Secours aux prisonniers de guerre' at Berne.
  • British prisoners engaged in German factories.
  • Prisoners hospital at Frankfort-on-the-Main: report by Dr Karl Ohnesorg, Surgeon, US Navy, and Mr Rivington Pyne, US official, following their visit.
  • Articles permitted to be sent to British prisoners.
  • Boots for prisoners at Gardelegen camp, Saxony.
  • Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: officer camps at Mainz, Heidelberg, Villingen, and Ingolstadt, and men camps at Stuttgart, Ulm, Ingolstadt, Nurnberg, and Wurzberg; inspection reports, some including lists of names, by US officials (in docket no. 91449).
  • Prisoners of War Help Committee.
  • Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: Stendal, Zerbst, and Wittenberg; inspection reports by US officials (in docket no. 94879).
  • Conditions camp at prisoners' camp at Wurzburg: report on hospital and list of officers (in docket no. 94880).
  • Treatment of prisoners of war at Hadersleben in Schleswig.
  • Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: Friedrichsfeld b/Wesel; original documents (in German) sent by the camp commandant to the late Mr Michelson, US Consul at Cologne, including lists and coloured plan on waxed paper (in docket no. 96677).
  • Lazarets in Hamburg: report by US Consul General, Hamburg, with list of British wounded prisoners being treated (in docket no. 97368).
  • Major C B Vandeleur, 1st Cameronians Regiment, escaped British prisoner of war: report on treatment of prisoners in Germany; investigation of incidents referred to in report.
  • Parcels of food, etc, for British prisoners in Germany.
  • Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: officers' camp at Augustabad, near Neubrandenburg in Mecklenburg; inspection reports by US officials (in docket no. 98072).
  • Recreation ground at hospital at Frankfort-on-the-Main.
  • Treatment of British prisoners at Dänholm camp, Straslund: enquiry from Commander G H Miller-Sirling, Royal Navy (retired) regarding his son, Lieut A E S Miller-Stirling, 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, held prisoner in officers' camp there.
  • Visits of members of US Embassy to prisoners' camps in Germany.
  • Treatment of British prisoners in Germany: comments on report by Consul Vicars.
  • British soldier publicly flogged to death at Scheidemuhle, near Berlin: report of incident from two Russian soldiers escaped from Germany.
  • Ill-treatment of British prisoners in Germany: reports from French wounded returned from Germany.
  • Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: officer camps at Freidburg, and Hannover, Münden, and soldier camps at Limburg and Giessen; inspection reports by Dr Karl Ohnesorg, Surgeon, US Navy (in docket no. 101488).
  • Assistance to British prisoners in Germany: War Office enquiry whether £20,000 scheme was put into operation.
  • Lt Col Maxwell Earle, wounded prisoner in Germany: treatment; report by Dr Karl Ohnesorg, Surgeon, US Navy.
  • British naval prisoners at Giessen: report including lists of camps and field hospitals in Germany, forwarded by Mrs Jebb Scott, Hon Secretary of Ladies Emergency Committee of the Navy League.
  • Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: reports from repatriated prisoners showing lack of reliance to be placed on US reports.
  • Complaints regarding treatment of British prisoners of war by Germans: treatment of officers from HMS Maori.
  • Epidemic and relief: enquiries regarding Giessen or Gottingen.
  • Treatment of British prisoners at Lille.
  • Treatment of British prisoners at Heidelberg.
  • Treatment of British prisoners in Germany: information received from Belgian hospital assistants.
  • Irish prisoners of war: methods adopted by Germans towards Irish prisoners; report by Mr Vice Consul A G B Bax of Caen.
  • Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: Beeskow, Sagan, Sprottau, Guben, and Crossen; inspection reports by US officials (in docket no. 113266).
  • Treatment of British prisoners at Neisse.
  • Medical treatment of British wounded in Germany.
  • Tobacco for British prisoners in Germany.
  • Visits to camp at Hannover, Münden: information that no report made by US officials.
  • Treatment of Royal Navy prisoners at Doberitz.
  • Sedition of Irish prisoners of war.
  • Treatment of British prisoners in Germany: report by Captain Middleton, Royal Army Medical Corps, recently repatriated, relating his experiences and conditions at Torgan, Burg, Alten-Grabow.

Code 1218 File 1061 (papers 86426-119237).

Date: 1915
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: File 1061 (pp.86426-119237).
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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