Catalogue description Germany: Prisoners, including: Erwin Alfred Klug, Austrian subject, former electrical...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Erwin Alfred Klug, Austrian subject, former electrical engineer with Messrs Siemens Brothers, Madras, India: his internment at Ahmednagar Camp; his escapes; and his death in a railway tunnel in Goa, Portuguese India.

Transfer of officer prisoners from one camp to another.

Payment of salary to German colonial officials interned in Britain.

Receipt of drugs and medicines by prisoners.

Supply of boots to prisoners in Germany.

Lieutenant J R Wilkinson, 3rd Lancashire Fusiliers, interned at Gnadenfrei-Schlesien: his sudden death, and his father's request for return of his personal effects.

George Early, exchanged civilian prisoner: his efforts to cash a banknote for 1,000 German marks.

Major Maitland Makgill Crichton, 10th Gordon Highlanders, killed during the Battle of Loos: his widow's request to erect an iron memorial cross on his grave; request regretfully refused.

Repatriation of invalid civilians.

James Zimmermann and Ernest Bucher, Swiss subjects in German East Africa: enquiries concerning them.

Affairs in German East Africa, including:

• Arrest and release of missionaries.
• Cardinals de Belmonte and Bourne's interests on behalf of members of the Congrégation du Saint Esprit.
• Kamna Rubber Estate Ltd: safety of property and employees.
• Welfare of British subjects, including Archdeacon D J Rees, G H Prytz, James Scott-Brown and William Lock.
• Release by Belgian troops of British subjects from Tabora (with lists of surnames in dockets no. 233296 and 253891).

Donation by Imperial Tobacco Company of shipment of tobacco for British prisoners in Germany.

August Eckstein and Fräulein Gretchen Stahl: certificate of their marriage at Neustadt am Aisch, Bavaria.

Richard Kuenzer, former German Consul in Macedonia, interned at Ras-el-Tin Camp, Alexandria, Egypt.

Food and clothing for British prisoners in Germany; treatment of them.

Allied soldiers and civilians interned in Germany, including French, Serbians, Belgians, Japanese, Portuguese and Russians.

Replenishment of British Emergency Relief Fund in Berlin.

Siegfried Schlomer, interned at Islington, London.

Hermann Steinke, interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man.

Ernst Hans Davidsen, interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man: released on parole for one week in March 1916 to visit his dying wife in Glamorganshire; Home Office advise against his being paroled again.

C Schneberger, interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man: his objection to his son being enlisted into the British Army.

Martin Joachim: remittances to be made to account of his wife Mrs Sophie Joachim in Amsterdam.

Alleged conditions of imprisonment of German subjects at Reading: HM Government maintain that Reading Gaol is not a camp for prisoners of war and contains many persons who are not enemy aliens; those who are, are guilty of grave acts of espionage and their identities cannot be disclosed; but US Embassy may investigate conditions under which German civilians are detained there.

Sergeant John Bryce, Gordon Highlanders, imprisoned for refusing to take over command of squad from a superior non-commissioned officer on instructions of Camp Sergeant-Major: German Government uphold verdict of Court Martial.

Jules Leon, of Cologne (Köln): recovery of money advanced to him from British Emergency Relief Fund.

Code 1218 Files 103262-111245.