Catalogue description Germany: Prisoners, including: Letters from USA to German soldiers addressed to Northern...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Letters from USA to German soldiers addressed to Northern France.

Contraband: suspicious consignments to Amsterdam by Dutch vessel SS Danae.

Rent owing on a premises lately occupied by an interned alien enemy: enquiry from William Whiteley Ltd, auction, land and estate offices, of London, on behalf of a client.

Gold souvenir medals ordered from England by Mr A M L Betts, British subject interned at Ruhleben: arrangements for transmission via US Embassy, Berlin.

Badges or medals for Ruhleben prisoners: resolution passed by 3,000 camp members against allocation of relief funds to purchase of medals.

Present for commandant, Blankenburg camp, Berlin: request from Mrs Gordon for permission to send the commandant an inscribed gold pencil case as a mark of appreciation for kindness shown to her husband Colonel Gordon VC, prisoner at camp.

Pay and treatment of German officer interned in UK: Dr Werdin, assistant surgeon of the German Army.

Pay of officer prisoners of war in Germany: enquiries from Mrs Lucy B Jackson of Kemerton, Gloucestershire, in respect of her husband Colonel Jackson.

Johannes Buschmann, German subject interned at Knockaloe camp, Isle of Man: request for release as only 16 years old, and for compensation to pay passage to USA.

Mr M Bettenstadt, deported from England: history of his case; report that German Consul at Vlissingen will not recognise him as a German subject; request that he may be recalled to England; decision of UK authorities that deportation order cannot be withdrawn; petitions for reconsideration of decision.

Moravian missionaries in South Africa: comments on statement in Dutch newspaper that all missionaries of the Moravian Brotherhood in South Africa had been ordered to prepare to be interned.

British Red Cross and Order of St John: enquiries on behalf of Mrs Plunkett, wife of paralysed husband living at Hanover, and Mrs Morris in respect of her son, C V Morris, interned at Ruhleben.

Exchange of German notes for English money: request from wife of English employee of James Keiller & Son Ltd of Dundee, now interned in Ruhleben.

Dr Hupka and Mrs Hupka, German subjects interned in Ceylon: application for extension of relief; arrangements for transfer to Australia; inability of Mrs Hupka to travel.

Alleged bad treatment of consular officials who had since been exchanged: individual cases, including Herr Grimm and Oscar Lerch.

F F Bruchhaus, formerly German Consular Secretary at Durban: treatment at Pietermaritzburg; claim for release on grounds of ill-health.

Oscar Lerch, German Consular Secretary: treatment at Singapore.

Miss Cunliffe, of Worplesdon St Mary, near Guildford, Surrey: grant of an emergency passport to return to England from Rotterdam.

German South West Africa: pay of surrendered German officers; treatment of German civil and military officials.

Henry Hector Williams, Army Service Corps driver, interned at Ruhleben.

Private E McEwen, Scots Guards: investigation into reported shooting by German sentry at Gottingen camp, Hanover.

Mrs Louise Rudolph, in Germany, wife a German subject living in Sydney, Australia: request for relief and transmission of remittance from Sydney.

Internment in UK inhabitants of Schleswig.

Wives of German officers and soldiers from Togoland.

Release of seamen from Ruhleben.

Money due under agreement to Mrs Mary Amelia Goldschmidt, naturalised British subject, widow of Samuel Goldschmidt.

Payment of Count Bonifacius von Hatzfeld: payment of property taxes due on his estate in British Columbia.

Letters taken from lady of German nationality at Hull while on her way to Germany: arrangements for their return.

Communication with Prince Bulow regarding a book he was writing about his mission to Italy.

'Signalling' from Sir Alfred Mond's house.

Compilation of lists of German prisoners of war.

Prisoners of war at Pietermaritzburg.

Application of term 'prisoner of war' for listing of interned civilians.

Enquiry forms: application of terms on forms.

British Red Cross and Order of St John: enquiries regarding possible release of two German doctors, Dr Eugen Drouven, interned in Hong Kong, and Dr Richard Häffner, interned in Gibraltar; and possible exchange of Private Joseph Fitzsimmons, Royal Irish Regiment, prisoner of war at Sennelager.

Detention of Dr Richard Häffner (or Haeffner).

Release of Dr Eugen Drouven.

Release of Edwin Williams, British subject interned at Ruhleben, in exchange for Julius Wegeler.

Document for signature of Maria Valeria Florentina Roesch, née Dillon, in Germany.

Phthysis amongst British prisoners in German camp.

Code 1218 File 93312-99280.