Catalogue description Germany: Prisoners, including: Agreement for the transmission of a letter from the...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Agreement for the transmission of a letter from the Knockaloe Prisoners' Aid Society to the German Government.

Johann Hermann Hahn: authorisation for his release to Denmark.

Private Edward Pinney: investigation into the circumstances of his death at Langensalza Camp, including:

• Cause of death given as meningitis by the German authorities.
• Statements by Corporal H Drewitt and Trooper A McFarlane on the circumstances of Private Pinney's death.
• Memorandum to the German Government requesting an official investigation.
• Statements by various British prisoners (names in docket nos.50869 and 75249).
• Report of the German investigation.

Effects of long-term internment on prisoners, including:

• Mrs Anna Burrows: request for the transfer to Switzerland of long-term prisoners.
• Depositions provided by Captain A W Colley and Lieutenant R E Barnes.
• Recommendation by the Admiralty for the repatriation of prisoners who had been in captivity for two years or more.
• Regulations on the sale and consumption of alcoholic liquor in internment camps in the UK.
• Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck and Mr Peto: parliamentary questions on the exchange of long-term prisoners.
• Memorandum on the effects of continued imprisonment.
• Sir Henry Lunn: extracts from a letter from his son, Hugh Lunn, interned at Karlsruhe Camp.
• Copy of a telegram to Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig concerning the transfer of long-term prisoners to a neutral country.
• Memorandum to the German Government recommending the transfer to a neutral country of prisoners interned for two years or more.
• Captain Button: request by his wife, Mrs Elizabeth Button, for his transfer to Switzerland.
• Sir John Lonsdale and Mr HumeWilliams: parliamentary questions about the response of the German Government to the proposal for the transfer of prisoners.
• Captain J Johnston Watson, interned at Augustabad: report that the text of the British proposal was being displayed in prison camps in Germany.
• Captain Graham Toler: request by his wife for his transfer to Switzerland.
• Request from the Italian Embassy in London for details of the proposal.

Treatment of British and African prisoners in German East Africa, including:

• List of British prisoners released from Tabora (in docket no.9885).
• Reverend Ernest F Spanton: extract from an interview with him in The Times of 30 December 1916 on the ill treatment of British prisoners.
• Reverend H A Keats: evidence on the treatment of prisoners.
• Reverend Ernest F Spanton: report on the conditions of interned prisoners.
• Mr James Scott-Brown: report on his experiences as an interned civilian.
• Typescript articles from The Times and The African Mail on the ill treatment of prisoners; agreement by the German Colonial Office to investigate the charges.
• Sworn statements by various witnesses (names in docket no.103223).
• Lieutenant V Sankey, interned at Dar es Salaam: letter from his mother, Mrs May Longe, on the conditions of his internment.
• Riflemen Murphy and Nicholson: report on the circumstances of their deaths.
• Private George Flood: report of an interview with him.
• Rifleman Nicholson: various witness statements (names in docket no.150796) relating to the circumstances of his death.
• Reports on the Treatment by the Germans of British Prisoners and Natives in German East Africa, parliamentary command paper [Cd. 8689], Miscellaneous No. 13 (1917).
• Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War: proof copy of a report on the treatment by the German authorities in German East Africa of British civilian prisoners of war.
• Decision not to bring charges against the German prisoner Volhamer in connection with the death of Rifleman Nicholson.

Theodore Kroell, interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man: decision that he could not be repatriated to the USA instead of Germany.

German memorandum on the typhus epidemic at Gardelegen Camp, with an article (German language) from Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of 17 December 1916.

Leutnant der Reserve Otto Schultz: report of his death at Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley.

Lieutenant R F Gore-Browne, interned at Stralsund: request from his father, Mr F Gore-Browne, for his exchange for a German prisoner.

Wilhelm Dröge, interned at Liverpool, New South Wales: question of compensation for an injury sustained while working in a sawmill.

Mr Richard Wolf Gordon, a British subject resident in Bavaria: arrangements for the payment of his pensions from the Probate Registry and the Government of Nyasaland.

Statement by various German prisoners (names in docket no.10961) on their treatment while being transported from Chinde to Beira on SS Ipu.

German memorandum on the payment of relief funds to German nationals.

Code 1218 Files 8591-11299.