Catalogue description Germany: Prisoners, including: Relief granted to prisoners, including: Relief payments...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Relief granted to prisoners, including:

• Relief payments for Ruhleben prisoners.
• Allan Carruth Barr: his expenses.
• British Emergency Relief Fund in Germany.
• S Percy Reed, British subject at Hanover: payments made to him; his account of his imprisonment and interrogation by German police; increase of relief granted to him.
• Dearle children at Bremen: report that mother abandoned the family before the war; father interned at Ruhleben.
• German relief to German wives of British subjects interned in Germany.
• Daniel Jacob Goodman, interned at Ruhleben: born in Russia but naturalised as a British subject; HM Government policy not to pay relief to such persons if they resided outside HM Dominions for five years or more before outbreak of war.
• Frederick Wedekind: Army pension not to be paid during the war.
• Petition (with original signatures, in docket no.131470) of delegates of men in receipt of relief in Ruhleben camp, requesting that previous rate be restored.
• Mrs Caroline Wilhelmine Elliott at Stuttgart: question as to whether she should be paid from British Emergency Relief Fund and costs recovered from Colonial Office; established that she was the widow of Thomas Frederick Elliott, a British subject.
• Travelling expenses of British subjects in Germany visiting relatives at Ruhleben.
• Maximilian Links (alias John McLinks), imprisoned in the Stadtvogtei, Berlin: relief to be stopped because of false information given by him.
• Advances given to patients at Dr Weiler's Sanatorium, Berlin.
• Elliott Belle, interned at Havelberg: recommendation by Governor of Barbados for relief for him.
• Ferdinand Allen: question of his antecedents and whether relief should continue to be paid to him.
• Financial accounts of Ruhleben camp.
• British Emergency Relief Fund in Germany: 'Inquiry Forms' filled in by applicants (in docket no.192293).
• Charles Webster, interned at Ruhleben: report he was of enemy origin and naturalised in New Zealand; view that relief could be paid to him if New Zealand would take responsibility for repayment.
• Mrs Dorothea Carr (née Goerling), of Schrwenborn, near Heikendorf, Kiel, wife of Thomas Carr: possibility of her receiving relief.
• British Indians interned at Havelberg, Germany.
• Nathan Weinberg, interned at Ruhleben then repatriated to Britain: amount of relief money received by him.
• Harry Shaw, interned at Ruhleben then repatriated to Britain: amount of relief money received by him.
• John Donoghue, granted relief to pay for counsel at his trial.

Applications from prisoners for their release, including:

• Walter Illingworth, interned at Ruhleben; permission obtained for him to leave Germany but he did not avail himself of it; Foreign Office not prepared to intervene further.
• Gordon Stewart Nicoll, interned at Ruhleben.
• Alexander Heymann: question as to his British naturalisation (naturalised in South Africa in 1908).
• George Peters Forrester: report of him not being entitled to claim release under existing agreement with German Government, as a pharmacist and not a medical practitioner; also being born at Geneva out of wedlock and so not being a British subject by birth, can have no claim on HM Government and probably has no nationality.
• Dr G Layton, English dentist in Brussels, interned at Ruhleben.
• James O'Hara Murray, interned at Ruhleben.
• H W A Hopf, a South African interned at Ruhleben: report of him refusing a medical operation despite all opportunity and advice.
• Reginald Thompson, engineer of Gorton, Manchester, interned at Ruhleben: report of his wife dying of cancer; Foreign Office request if he can be released in exchange, or for a few days on parole.
• George Dakin, interned at Ruhleben: enquiry from his wife, of Long Eaton, Nottinghamshire, why he had not been released when he was classed as unfit for military service.
• Stanley Grimm, interned at Ruhleben.
• James Weldon, of Rush, County Dublin, an invalid, interned at Ruhleben.
• Gordon Park, invalid civilian: German Government refusal to release him because he is a ship's engineer.
• Fred Norton, invalid civilian interned at Ruhleben.
• Harry Gold, interned at Ruhleben: appeal from his daughter, Miss Sadie Gold of Margate, Kent, for his release; report that Mr Gold resided abroad for several years after naturalisation, contrary to its conditions; Home Secretary refusal to grant him a passport.
• Suggestion by Louis Mallet of the British Red Cross and Order of St John that M S Prichard, interned at Ruhleben, be exchanged for Ernst Goetz, interned at Wakefield.
• Repatriation from Ruhleben of persons of unsound mind.
• Augustus Maggs, interned at Ruhleben: appeal from his wife, Mrs Charlotte Maggs of Glasgow, for his release; report that he cannot be included in the exchange of consular officials as he was merely in the private employment of a diplomatic or consular officer in a neutral country before the outbreak of war.
• Hubert Honnywill, British civilian detained in Dr Weiler's Sanatorium.
• F W Steege, Manager of the Standard Bank of South Africa Branch at Hamburg, interned at Ruhleben: report that an exchange was not possible.

Code 1218 Files 611 (papers 57296-end)-612 (to paper 46622).