Catalogue description Turkey. Prisoners, including: Delivery of parcels and letters to prisoners, including: ...

Turkey. Prisoners, including:

Delivery of parcels and letters to prisoners, including:

• Mrs Ethel Simmons: request for permission to correspond with her son, Lieutenant D A Simmons, taken prisoner at Kut.
• Enquiry into non-delivery of parcels for members of the Herefordshire Regiment interned in Turkey.
• Non-delivery of parcels to members of the Royal Flying Corps interned in Turkey.
• Enquiry by the British Red Cross and Order of St John about the formation of a committee by the Foreign Office to investigate the delivery of parcels to prisoners in Turkey.
• Mr J H W Fulton: enquiry about non-delivery of parcels to Lieutenant E J Fulton, interned at Afion Kara Hissar, with a printed copy of a General Post Office circular, dated April 1916, Communication with Prisoners of War Interned Abroad.
• Enquiry from Harrods Ltd about sending parcels to prisoners captured at Kut-el-Amara.
• Alleged refusal of the Turkish authorities to accept delivery of mail addressed to British prisoners in Mesopotamia (Iraq) unless written in French; confirmation by the Sublime Porte that no such restrictions applied.
• Reverend H Harrington Harris: request for information on how to contact a prisoner captured at Kut-el-Amara.
• Mr H Punchard: enquiry about his brother captured at Kut-el-Amara.
• Mrs Ethel Morland: enquiry about communcation with her son, Captain W Morland, a prisoner at Halki.
• Instructions from the Turkish authorities governing the volume of correspondence permitted to British and French prisoners.
• Complaint by the Turkish authorities about non-delivery of mail to Turkish prisoners interned in Malta.
• Recommendation by the Indian Government for restrictions on letters to Turkish prisoners to be lifted.
• Letter received by Sir Edmund Barrow from Lieutenant Colonel H O Parr on restrictions placed on British prisoners regarding correspondence.
• Proposal for a reciprocal agreement between the British and Turkish Governments to remove restrictions on the receipt of correspondence by prisoners.
• Lady Victoria Herbert: request for advice on sending parcels via Constantinople to prisoners in Turkey.
• Printed copy of Army Council Instruction No. 1535 of 1916, cancelling restrictions on the correspondence of Turkish and Arab prisoners.
• Times of transit of parcels and letters sent from Sofia, Philippopolis and Constantinople to London.
• Mr John M Stone: enquiry about regulations for the packing of parcels to be sent to prisoners in Bulgaria and Turkey.
• Captain F Palmer Roberts: enquiry about addressing parcels to prisoners captured at Kut-el-Amara.
• Enquiry by the General Post Office about the lifting of restrictions on the length of letters sent to prisoners, with a printed copy of Foreign Office guidelines on letters to prisoners and a printed copy of the General Post Office leaflet Communication with Prisoners of War Interned Abroad.
• Parliamentary question by Mr Montague Barlow about Foreign Office and Post Office regulations on the sending of parcels to prisoners.
• Parliamentary question by Mr McCallum Scott about the planned response to requests for help from British prisoners in Angora.
• Lord Sydenham: enquiry on behalf of Queen Mary about sending relief to British prisoners in Turkey.
• Mrs Kate Annesley: request for advice on sending clothing to her husband, Colonel A Annesley, a prisoner at Kastamouni, with a newspaper cutting [uncredited] reporting details of several casualties among Indian forces.
• Mr J S Williams-Thomas: enquiry about a remittance sent to his son, Major F S Williams-Thomas, a prisoner at Yozgad; confirmation by the American Embassy in Constantinople that Major Williams-Thomas had been moved from Angora to Yozgad, and had received letters and parcels.
• Proposal by the Turkish Government for a reciprocal agreement between the United Kingdom and Turkey regarding the sending of letters at Christmas and on Muslim holy days.
• Request by the Turkish Government for the transmission of registered letters via the Netherlands.

Lieutenant Edgar Granger: letters describing his wounding and capture by Turkish forces; notification to Constantinople of his promotion; provision of financial assistance by his father, Mr Thomas Granger.

Policies of the British and Turkish Governments on the recognition of promotions of interned prisoners.

Proposed agreement between the United Kingdom and Turkey on the mutual exchange of incapacitated prisoners, including:

• Request by the Turkish Government for a nominal roll of all Ottoman prisoners.
• Recommendation by the American Embassy in Constantinople for the process to begin with the exchange of prisoners in Constantinople and Asia Minor.
• List of incapacitated Turkish prisoners, not including those held in India (in docket no.81698).
• List of incapacitated Turkish prisoners held in India (in docket no.98625).
• Mrs Mc Namara: enquiry about her husband, Leading Seaman J McNamara, hospitalised in Afion Kara Hissar.
• Proposal for the exchange of prisoners to be carried out using hospital ships, and agreement of the French Government to give the ships safe passage.
• Agreement by the Turkish authorities to ship British incapacitated prisoners to Mersina.
• Agreement by the War Office of a proposal for a hundred British and Turkish prisoners prisoners to be selected for the exchange.

Mr Pierre A Zammit, a British refugee from Smyrna resident in Athens: request for financial assistance to enable him to travel to America.

British and Turkish officer prisoners, including:

• Complaint by the Turkish authorities about the treatment of certain officer prisoners, with a list of their names (in docket no.49016).
• Recognition of officer status for the Turkish prisoners Bekir Effendi Ibn Hassan and Mehmed Fahri Effendi Ibn Ata.
• Correspondence regarding rates of pay of British and Turkish officer prisoners.
• Enquiry from the War Office about the provision of free accommodation, fuel, light and medical attendance for British officer prisoners.
• Agreement for the Turkish prisoner Salih Zeki Effendi to be granted non-commissioned officer status; establishment of the status of certain Turkish prisoners in Malta as non-commissioned officers.
• Threat by the Turkish authorities to reduce the rates of pay to British prisoners, unless details of the rates of pay to Turkish prisoners were provided; provision of information on rates of pay by the War Office.
• Increased pay allowance for General Townshend.
• Alleged ill-treatment of the Turkish prisoners in Malta.
• Lists of Turkish prisoners claiming officer status interned at Sumerpur and Thayetmo in India (in docket nos. 216025 and 219846).
• Pay of Indian Army officers.
• Sir Edwin Pears: claim by the Turkish Government for taxes on mines owned by him in the Dardanelles; enquiries about Mr T Launcelot Dawson, a mining engineer.
• Appointment of the Reverend W A Wigram as chaplain for the British prisoners interned at Kiangri.

Code 1244 Files 1661 (papers 105347-end)-5460.