Catalogue description Germany: Prisoners, including: Arrangements for the despatch of personal property of...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Arrangements for the despatch of personal property of deceased British civilian prisoners from Germany to their relatives in Britain, with a list of the prisoners' names and their next of kin.

Payments by the German Foreign Office to Frau Pastor Sprengel, Seemansmissionar Friedrichs and Herr Luedorff in South Africa.

Sister Lucy W Karsh: request for copies of her British birth certificate and certificate of adoption.

Enquiry by the British Red Cross about arrangements by the German authorities for photographs of the graves of British prisoners who died in German hospitals.

Arrangements with His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) for the printing of reports of interviews with returned British prisoners.

Permission for a petition from Karl Zimmerman, interned at Knockaloe Aliens Camp, to be transmitted to the German Government.

Enquiry about the entitlement of German women whose sons were serving in the British Army to receive separation allowances.

Petition, signed by the Head-Captains of Camp II at Knockaloe Aliens Camp, protesting against the unnecessary internment of civilian prisoners.

Sinking of the SS Thurso: enquiries about the welfare of the Master and Engineer, and confirmation that they were being held at the prisoner of war camp at Dülmen.

Report of the death of the British subject Albert del Strother at Baden-Baden.

Report of the shooting of a German missionary, named Palm, by an English patrol at Shirati near Lake Victoria, East Africa.

Complaint by Captain Rudolf Streek, master of the German trawler Bürgermeister, that a request to be admitted to the Prize Court in October 1915 was not granted.

Repatriation expenses of members of the German sanitary personnel captured in South West Africa.

Enquiries into allegations that couriers from the SS Prins Hendrik were to be tried before a German military court, and subsequent confirmation that they were being held at Ruhleben prisoner of war camp, and would not be subject to a military trial.

Confirmation that the British trawlers Wanderer, Boy Percy and Boy Sam were sunk by a German submarine on 17 May 1915, after the crews had left the ships. Includes a crew list for the Wanderer.

Provision to the German Government of a copy of the death certificate of Mr James Rook.

Major Priestley and Captain Vidal of the Royal Army Medical Corps: return of money and personal property confiscated by German frontier guards at Bentheim.

Arrangements for the internment in the United Kingdom of certain German subjects from South West Africa.

Request by the Bristol Steam Navigation Company Limited for payment of outstanding accounts for work on British ships in Hamburg before the outbreak of the war.

Report of the illness and death of Miss Emilie Paulwet, a German civilian held at Belgaum Camp.

Report of the deaths in India of two German clergymen, the Most Reverend Hermann Jurgens, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bombay, and Brother Andrew Fingerhuth.

Policy of the Prisoners of War Information Bureau on providing information on enemy subjects.

Terms of an agreement between the British and German Governments for the release of British and German civilians, and advice from the Admiralty that the terms should not be altered.

Agreement for the transmission of a document from Mrs Lena Ulman to her husband, Mr William Ulman, who had been repatriated as an invalid to Germany, for his signature.

Advice that German subjects in South West Africa should not be allowed to make payments to their relatives in Germany.

Request by Frau K Fritzsche to return to South West Africa from Germany.

Decision by the War Office not to allow the transmission of a letter from Alfred Teske, a prisoner at Knockaloe Aliens Camp, to the German authorities. Includes the original letter.

Proceedings of a court of inquiry to investigate the death of Kurt Becker, shot while attempting to escape from the internment station at Amherst, Nova Scotia.

Attempts by Captain C B Courtney of the Royal Army Medical Corps to arrange for the transfer to England of an [unnamed] illegitimate child, with an English mother and a German father, currently being cared for by foster parents near Metz in Germany.

Arrest of Mr R Barends, former British Vice-Consul at Delfzÿl in the Netherlands, by the German authorities.

Correspondence with the German Foreign Office concerning the proposed transfer of Oberleutnant zur See Crompton of SMS U-Boot 41to Switzerland on medical grounds.

Transfer of British and German prisoners to Switzerland, including:

• Allegations by the German authorities that certain naval prisoners in the United Kingdom, due for transfer to Switzerland on medical grounds, were being detained.
• Details of the naval prisoners, giving their ranks and names.
• Refusal of the German Government to transfer eight British officers to Switzerland as a reprisal.
• The names of the eight British officers.

Request for the repatriation to Belgium of Aimé Dubay, an invalid soldier in a convalescent home in England.

Proposed amendment to the existing agreement between Britain and Germany for the repatriation of invalid civilian prisoners.

Grant of fourteen days leave on parole to Captain R C Campbell to travel to England from Magdeburg Camp in Germany to visit his sick mother.

Request for Peter Gastreich, a German prisoner in England, to be allowed to visit his sick mother in Germany.

Captain Fraser, Master of Saltoun: enquiries regarding his attempted escape from Clausthal Camp and subsequent recapture.

Code 1218 Files 193070-206221.