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Details of FO 383/396
Reference: FO 383/396
Description:

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Replies from the German and Prussian authorities to reports by the Netherlands Legation on camps:

  • Zeche Viktoria Mathias.
  • Grube 'Waidmannsglück'.
  • Stendal.
  • Papierfabrik Reisholz.
  • Gruen and Bilfinger.
  • Groepelingen.
  • Friedrich Schmuck- Duisberg-Meiderich.
  • Grube Leonhardt.
  • Grube Vesta, Klein Kayna.
  • Westerholt.
  • Diksche Heide.
  • Burgermeisterei Benrath-Hassels.
  • Neue Saline, Lüneburg.
  • Jul. Berger.

Statements on treatment of prisoners by:

  • Captain S H Batty-Smith, 1st Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
  • Private W Hawes, 4th Middlesex Regiment on the ill-treatment of Private Meech, 2nd Battalion Queen's West Surrey Regiment.
  • Private William Smith, 2 Northumberland Fusiliers, on the ill-treatment of Private Desborough.
  • Private Arthur Metcalf, 2 Royal Munster Fusiliers.
  • Frederick Allen, 53 Australian Imperial Forces.
  • Private Sidney Philip Heminsley, 1 Canadian Mounted Rifles.
  • Corporal Claud C Benson, 13 Australian Imperial Forces.
  • Private E Solomon, 46 Australian Imperial Forces.
  • Corporal A Bowen, 54 Australian Imperial Forces.
  • Corporal J Bruce, 16th Canadian Highlanders.
  • Corporal J V Austman, 8th Canadian Battalion.
  • Sergeant Major Justice, 1st King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
  • Private H S Kenyon, 29th Vancouver Battalion.
  • Private L Howard, 4th Middlesex Regiment.
  • Private J M Gilroy, 1st Gordon Highlanders.
  • Private J D Harrison, 1st Cheshire Regiment.
  • Private J Hocking, 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles.
  • Private J A Scott, 8th Canadian Infantry.
  • Rifleman C Rippengal, 1st London Rifle Brigade.
  • Private W Midwinter, 2nd Wiltshire Regiment.
  • Private H Watson, 2nd Sherwood Foresters.
  • Private R E Thompson, London Scottish.
  • Rifleman E Evanson, 1st London Rifle Brigade.
  • Private D A Cameron, 2nd Canadian Infantry.
  • Private A Reid, Gordon Highlanders.
  • Corporal J Jones, 1st Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
  • Captain Ward, the Buffs.
  • Lance Corporal R Bruce, 4 Dragoon Guards.
  • Sergeant A Scrase, 8 Royal West Kent Regiment.
  • Leading Stoker, A Rowe, Royal Navy HMS Arabis.
  • Private George Fleming, 1 Queen's Regiment.
  • Lance Corporal Alfred Sleeman, 1 Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.
  • Corporal H Wrigley, 8 Canadians.
  • Private J Grimes, 19 Manchester Regiment.
  • Corporal J Kilburn, 2 Munster Fusiliers.
  • Private Thomas Burchett, 2 King's Own Yeoman Light Infantry.
  • Private J H Howard, Royal Army Medical Corps.

Death of Richard Caffery, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.

Account of conditions at Vechta by an unnamed Russian soldier.

List of athletic and theatrical equipment to Gardelegen Camp.

Parliamentary question on the Hague Agreement including extract from Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) dated 16 October 1918.

Press cutting relating to the death of Private Ellis at Valenciennes.

Notice to the press issued by the Interdepartmental Committee on Prisoners of War concerning the treatment of prisoners in Germany.

Reports by Dr Hoekstra on visits of inspection to camps:

  • Frankfurt an der Oder.
  • Göttingen.
  • Zerbst.
  • Skalmierschütz.

Complaints by Private Charles Blackburn to Dr Hoekstra on his visit to the camp at Bayreuth and reply from Prussian Government.

Report on placing of British prisoners in overheated cells.

Medical conditions of Private Hubert Wilde and Private Boyd.

Medical condition of Private A Johnstone, 1 Cameron Highlanders.

Reports by M Snouck Hurgronje on visits of inspection to camps:

  • Elbing III, Schickau Shipping Yard.
  • Wirges.
  • Aue-Wingeshausen.

Reports by Dr Römer on visits of inspection to camps:

  • 'Eisen u. Stahlwerk' Osnabrück.
  • Nichelau.
  • Narrow Gauge Railway Works of Messrs Grenstein & Koppel.
  • Doeberitz Lazaret.
  • Chemische Fabrik 'Schoeningen'.
  • Gefangenenlazaret Klein Wittenberg.

Treatment of British prisoners working in mines.

Condition of British prisoners arriving in Rotterdam from Germany.

Report on the Employment in Coal and Salt Mines of the British Prisoners of War in Germany by the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War.

Letter from Mary Hanslip Hopkins of Purley, asking for an investigation into the conditions at Graudenz following the receipt of a letter from her son.

Letter from Sergeant C H Turner concerning conditions at Friedrichsfeld Lager.

Parliamentary question concerning enquiries about prisoners who have lost their memories or power of speech.

Case of Private G E Piggott, Royal Army Medical Corps.

Enquiry as to the presence of Irish prisoners of war at Danzig-Troyl, members of Sir Roger Casement's Brigade.

Treatment of A E Amey, a prisoner at Brandenburg.

Report by Dr Römer on conditions at Stahlwerk, Osnabrück, as told to him by Corporal C M Jones.

Code 1218 File 303 (papers 114803-117101).

Date: 1918
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: File 303 (pp.114803-117101).
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and German
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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