Catalogue description Belgium: Prisoners, including: Letters from Baron von der Lancken to the Bank of...

Belgium: Prisoners, including:

Letters from Baron von der Lancken to the Bank of Australasia, Brisbane, Australia.

Doctor Abraham Caspary, interned at Stratford Camp, London.

Edward Adderley Oglander Leeds, former teacher at the Gouin School, Brussels, interned at Ruhleben Camp, Germany.

Mitchel Chapman in Brussels: correspondence between Lord Robert Cecil and J T Agg Gardner, MP.

Miss Mary Bradley at Brussels.

Recovery of repatriation expenses of British subjects returning from Belgium.

C G Mottley: payment of rent of house occupied by him in Brussels.

Execution of Nurse Edith Cavell, including:

• Execution of Nurse Edith Cavell: press cutting from the New York World of 26 December 1915 quoting the opinions of Baron von Bissing, Military Governor of Belgium, and Baron von der Lancken, Civil Governor of Belgium, that reaction to her death in England and America was 'hysteria' (docket no. 6000); new General Hospital at Lyons to be named after her; street in Constantine, Algeria, to be named after her; condolence message from Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria, Australia.
• Observations and advice upon Mr Mackellar’s letter to the Queen Dowager (letter not included).
• Execution of Nurse Edith Cavell: condolence message from Australasian Women's Association.
• Princess Marie de Croy's sentence and detention.

Expenses of removing Sir John Molesworth Staples from Diest, Belgium, to Holland.

Herbert Grant Watson, Secretary of British Legation in Brussels, seeks permission to pay the rent for his house in Brussels via the British Relief Fund.

M D Mossman, of Burnham, Somerset: his brother a prisoner at Ruhleben, Germany; his sister-in-law a Belgian subject, destitute in Brussels.

Miss M Dorman: concern about recovery of her trunk.

Miss Edith Mary Ochs wishes to return to England.

Canadian Government offices at Antwerp, Belgium: enquiry about lease.

Doctor Charles Maclean seeks to recover two orchestral scores which he left in the Music Library of the Kursaal, Ostend, Belgium.

Oswald B Tyrer enquires about his furniture at Liège.

Forwarding of letter for Messrs Kurth, Weyhmann and Company of Antwerp.

Edward Ellis Bigwood, British civilian interned in the Kommandantur at Brussels: liberated by German authorities.

Code 1204 Files 1756-27945.