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Germany: Prisoners, including:
Cases for consideration for possible exchange or release of prisoners, including:
- Major A G Thomson, Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC): detention and release of Major Thomson and other RAMC personnel.
- Exchange of consuls: proposals and arrangements; includes replies from various colonies, with lists of names.
- Retention of sanitary service staff fallen into enemy's hands.
- Exchange of incapacitated prisoners and invalids: proposals and arrangements; includes lists of names.
- Colonel Henry Edouard de la Fontaine, late of British Indian Army detention as prisoner of war in Germany aged 83 years; enquiry from his niece, Mademoiselle d'Epinay, regarding his possible release.
- Brigadier-General C E Bradley, interned in Germany: difficulties in making special application for his release as no German retired officer of corresponding rank detained in England.
- Albert Paul, German subject, and his wife, detained in London: request that they be exchanged for a British subject and wife in Berlin.
- Colonel John H Stratton, retired, of Little Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire: detention, aged 72 years, in Bad Nauheim, Germany; possible exchange of Col and Mrs Stratton for Baron and Baroness Oppeln, detained in UK.
- Dr Werner Kieschke, Prussian State Railway Department, detained in London: request that he be considered a consular official for purposes of possible exchange.
- Captain Cecil Morley, 21st Manchester Regiment: request that his name be added to list for exchange of incapacitated prisoners.
- Rudolph Kruger, interned German Consular Officer: proposed departure for Germany from Malta.
- Exchange questions with German Government: memorandum for information of Mr Jacobson.
- Parliamentary questions and debates regarding exchange of prisoners.
- Herr Grimm, German Consul in India: possible departure.
- General Leman, detained as a prisoner in German: possible exchange for German commander at Kiao-chau (or Kiau Chau).
- Lieutenant Suhle, German prisoner: possible exchange for J C Eden, interned at Ruhleben.
- Mr F W Steege, Standard Bank of South Africa manager in Germany: possible exchange for Mr Karbe, manager of the Disconto Gesellschaft in London.
- British wounded on German frontier: report by Dr Sturkop of Dutch Red Cross Society.
- Colonel W Gordon, interned in Germany: transfer from camp at Burg to Blankenburg; enquiry from his wife, Mrs Margaret Gordon of Cadogan Place, London, whether he may be included in next transfer of incapacitated prisoners.
- Captain C R Hall, 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers: possible exchange.
- Captain Schlagintweit, German Consul in Manchester: possible release.
- Charles Murphy, interned in Ruhleben: proposed exchange as a consular official.
- John Herbert Spottiswoode and Joseph R Weston, British subjects interned at Ruhleben: possible exchange.
- Michael Stewart Pease, interned at Ruhleben: enquiry from his father, Major Pease of Limpsfield, Surrey, whether he may be exchanged for a German prisoner wishing to return to Berlin.
- Baron Werner Ow-Wachendorf, lieutenant in German Army detained in England: exchange; French Government opposition.
- Mr Vernon Saville, British Vice-Consul in Solingen, interned at Ruhleben: enquiry from his wife, Mrs Mabel Saville of Sheffield, regarding his possible exchange.
Code 1218 File 85 (papers 11982-26432).
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