Catalogue description Germany: Prisoners, including: William Jackson, British civilian prisoner, interned at...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

William Jackson, British civilian prisoner, interned at Ruhleben: his death in the Dr Weill Sanatorium, Schlachtensee, Berlin.

Interned medical personnel, including:

• Members of German sanitary personnel interned in Britain. List of 12 names (in docket no.183).
• Johannes Heinrich Hagemann, interned German Medical Corps assistant captured in the Cameroons.
• Incapacitated German prisoners requesting release.
• Repatriation of British and German medical and sanitary personnel.
• Lieutenant (later Captain) D A Laird, Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC): his return to Britain from Germany.
• Doctor [Theodor] Schweitzer (oberarzt: assistant medical director). Governor of German East Africa Protectorate refuses to allow the exchange of Doctors E C Holtom, RN, (interned in German East Africa) and Schweitzer (interned in the Union of South Africa); so proposal made that Dr Schweitzer be sent to Britain to join the other German medical officers taken from the Protectorate.
• Captain Hasso Willy von Keller, wounded German prisoner.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Maxwell Earle, Grenadier Guards, prisoner at Friedburg: unfit for service. If he is repatriated, British will allow 4 Germans to transfer from Lofthouse Park, Wakefield, back to Donington Hall, Castle Donington, Leicestershire. Lord Kitchener, Secretary of State for War, blocks sending of prisoners to Switzerland.
• British RAMC members released from Germany.
• Major Priestley and Captain Vidal, RAMC: their detention in Germany; report by Lieutenant Lauder. Their continued detention in Germany makes repatriation of German medical personnel impossible. Released: to cross to England on 23 February 1916.
• Exchange of British and German incapacitated prisoners and invalid civilians.
• Private James Bailey, West Kent Regiment, prisoner at Friedrichsfeld, and Corporal Jeremiah Mulcahy, 1st Cheshire Regiment, prisoner at Limburg: neither soldier is incapacitated, so release refused.
• Hermann Wilhelm Wartenberg, interned at Knockaloe Camp: asks for repatriation as German Red Cross Corporal; but was arrested in London, not while serving in the field, so request denied.
• German members of Tsingtau Medical Corps interned at Knockaloe Camp.
• Means of recognition under Geneva Convention of German prisoners claiming to be members of medical services of combatant units.
• Alfred Reitz, arrested in the Cameroons, interned at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield.
• Curt Ludwig, interned at Knockaloe Camp.
• Carl Müller, interned at Edinburgh Castle.
• Adolf Lienemann, interned at Leigh, Lancashire.
• Dr Alfred E Trautmann, staff surgeon, interned at Edinburgh Castle, then at Wakefield.
• Dr Adolf Rosenbaum, interned at Edinburgh Castle, then at Wakefield.
• Dr Karl Ludwig Stoll, opthalmologist, German subject and resident of Cincinnati, United States of America, interned at Edinburgh Castle, then at Wakefield. Alleged to be dangerous; was active in United States.
• Repatriation of prisoners wearing Red Cross armband when captured.
• Dr Zieschank, naval surgeon, interned at Apia, Western Samoa.
• Anton Meier, interned at Alexandra Palace.
• Max Frohberg, interned at Knockaloe Camp.
• George Hoffmann, interned at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield.
• List of 27 British wounded prisoners in Germany, giving name, regiment, place of internment and wounds (in docket no.44678).
• Dr Carl Greiff, medical officer interned at Wakefield.
• Major Harold Richard Charley, 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles, interned at Guadenfrei, Schlesien, Germany.
• Lance Corporal S G Sellers, 7th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, interned at Diakonen Anstalt, Duisburg, Germany; badly wounded.
• Dr Casimir Casper, interned at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield.

Code 1218 Files 168-183 (to paper 51942).