Catalogue description Germany: Prisoners, including: German prisoners in British or British Empire custody,...

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Details of FO 383/163
Reference: FO 383/163
Description:

Germany: Prisoners, including:

German prisoners in British or British Empire custody, including:

  • Flogging of Germans at Rabaul, New Britain: medical report and legal opinion.
  • Reports on prisoners' camps at Wakefield, Yorkshire; Donington Hall, Leicestershire; Dyffryn Aled, Abergele, Denbighshire, Wales; Handforth, Cheshire; Douglas, Isle of Man; and Knockaloe, Isle of Man.
  • Transfer of prisoners under sentence from Isle of Man to Liverpool.
  • Internment camps at Malta and Stratford, London: complaints by internees.
  • Internment of German women and children in India.
  • Treatment of German prisoners at the camp at Trial Bay, New South Wales, Australia.
  • Conditions in the internment camp at Tenom, North Borneo.
  • Punishment for attempted escapes from places of internment.
  • Correspondence of German prisoners at Ahmednagar, India; and complaints about the camp. Printed despatch from the Government of India concerning the treatment of German subjects at Ahmednagar.
  • Employment of Germans interned in Canada.
  • Treatment of German prisoners in Canada; example of Amherst Camp, Nova Scotia.
  • Punishment of German prisoners in South Africa.
  • Internment camp at Liverpool, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
  • Work voluntarily undertaken by German civilian prisoners.
  • Lieutenant Thomas von Grote: his attempted escape from internment at Holyport, Berkshire, and sentence of nine months imprisonment at Chelmsford Detention Barracks. His protestation against long sentence.
  • Report on Libury Hall German Farm Colony, Ware, Hertfordshire.
  • Otto Schwerbrock, interned at Ahmednagar Camp, India: sentenced to two years' hard labour for being drunk and violent and resisting arrest.
  • Treatment of German civilians in the Civilian Internment Camp at Fort Henry, near Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
  • Provision of food at Pietermaritzburg Camp, Union of South Africa.
  • Conditions at the Lower Southern Hospital for prisoners at Dartford, Kent.
  • Food supplied to prisoners at Wakefield.
  • Publication of reports on prisoners' camps in Britain.
  • Treatment of German civilians on board steamship Akassa, while being transported from Nigeria, Dahomey, Togoland and the Gold Coast to Liverpool, England.
  • Treatment of German prisoners in Jamaica.
  • Restriction of conversation at Liverpool Camp, New South Wales, Australia.
  • Report on prisoners' working stations in the Isle of Man.

Code 1218 File 591 (papers 59444-180079).

Date: 1916
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: File 591 (pp.59444-180079).
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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