Catalogue description Austria-Hungary: Prisoners, including: Repatriation of British subjects from Austria,...

Austria-Hungary: Prisoners, including:

Repatriation of British subjects from Austria, including:

• Complaints from certain British subjects that they had been ordered by the Foreign Office to return to the UK from Austria.
• Report, with enclosures, of a journey by train through Switzerland and France of a group of British subjects being repatriated from Vienna, with an account of their experiences while stranded at Evian les Bains in France.
• Enquiry by the Paris-Lyons-Méditerané Company about the payment of transport costs.
• Edward Shires, a repatriated British subject: request for assistance in the exchange of Austrian currency, and request for a copy of a circular letter reportedly issued to British subjects in Budapest.
• Miss Mary Walters, a repatriated British subject from Vienna: letter requesting assistance in the exchange of Austrian currency, and enquiring about opportunities for her employment as an interpreter.
• Miss O'Callaghan and Miss Dixon, British subjects interned in Vienna: request by Sister M Constance of St Mary's Priory, Rugby, for them to be given a free passage to the UK.
• Memorandum to the Spanish Embassy in Vienna requesting the provision of assistance to Miss O'Callaghan and Miss Dixon; subsequent decision by Miss O'Callaghan to remain in Austria.
• Miss Elizabeth FitzSimon: enquiry from her mother, Mrs M FitzSimon, regarding the costs and method of the repatriation of her daughter from Vienna; confirmation that the sum of £20 had been advanced to Miss FitzSimon on her arrival in Switzerland.

James Fairholme: refund to the Paymaster General of two remittances sent to him in Austria, after he had returned to the UK.

Stephen Hazzopulo: arrangements for the refund of a remittance sent to him in Vienna, after he had left for Switzerland.

Ralph Dawes: correspondence regarding the transmission of his birth certificate to Budapest.

Miss Constance Wade, a British subject in Budapest: form of enquiry from her stepsister, Miss Mabel Keighley.

Mrs Gerald Bunn in Vienna: confirmation of a payment to her from the British Relief Fund.

Miss Louisa le Gros: confirmation that she had departed from Linz on a special train for Switzerland with other British subjects who had been interned at Katzenau.

Mrs Sarah Walker: letters from her husband, Charles Walker, authorising payments to her in Vienna.

Norman Priggen and Edward Priggen: confirmation that they had left Vienna for Trieste, Italy, on a special train with other British subjects returning to the UK.

Miss Susan Patterson, a British subject in Budapest, including:

• Information that she had been transferred to the Sanatorium Schwarzer in Budapest.
• Arrangements with the Spanish Embassy for payment of the expenses for her maintenance and treatment.
• Provision of additional funds by her brother, James Patterson, in New Zealand.
• Enquiries from Miss Patterson's niece, Mrs A K Mercer, and her sister, Mrs H R Wells.
• Enquiries concerning the grant of permission for Miss Patterson to leave Austria to travel to New Zealand via the UK.

Herbert Steadman, a British subject formerly employed by the Vacuum Oil Company in Hungary: transmission of a parcel to him in London from Miss Ethel Domber.

Robert McFarlane: extracts from his diary while interned at Wielandsthal Camp in Austria.

Mrs Amelia Abramovics: confirmation that she had returned to England from Budapest, and arrangements for the refund of money advanced to her by the Spanish Embassy in Vienna.

Harry Tomchinsky: correspondence regarding the transmission of a copy of his birth certificate from the UK to Austria.

Edward Kent: confirmation that he had left Vienna on 9 December 1918 on a special train for British subjects returning home via Switzerland.

George Kilpatrick, a British subject interned at Raabs, Lower Austria: enquiry from Miss E Dunlop regarding his whereabouts, following reports that Mr Kilpatrick had left Vienna to travel to the UK.

Colonel Lundblad: copy of a letter to him from the Prisoners of War Department on procedures for transmitting documents for censorship.

Code 1203 Files 114 (papers 2553-end)-1811.