Catalogue description Germany: Prisoners, including: Information respecting deceased British officers and men,...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Information respecting deceased British officers and men, including:

• Particulars of deceased British officers and men.
• Lists of deceased German combatants and prisoners of war.
• Effects of deceased British and German subjects and the return to the UK of their effects.
• Arrangements for the disposal of the effects of German combatants and prisoners, following their return from Germany.

Employment of prisoners, including:

• Employment of interned civilian prisoners.
• Treatment of German prisoners at Salisbury and Corby.
• Compulsory employment of interned German prisoners.
• Employment of Hans Goerner, interned German prisoner at Corby.
• Performance of work by German prisoners.
• Making of surgical instruments by German prisoners.
• Employment of German prisoners in the basket making industry at Knockaloe.

German prisoners in Barbados and their transfer to Canada.

Treatment of German prisoner Friedrich Quade.

Payment for work undertaken by Hauptmann von Scheven, non-commissioned officer interned in Holland.

Internment of the British prisoner Louis Veitch.

Issues relating to the correspondence of British prisoners undergoing punishment sentences.

Sentence of imprisonment alleged to have been passed upon Karl Muff, German prisoner and the non-delivery of his mail.

Sentence of imprisonment passed upon Josua Maybaum, a German prisoner in detention at Woking.

Deaths of German and British prisoners, including:

• Notification of violent deaths of German and British prisoners.
• Shooting of Corporal J Brown, in The Liverpool Regiment, a British prisoner-of-war at Hameln.
• Death of Private Thomas Inns in Germany.
• Death of Private William McGuigan, 2nd Inniskilling Fusillers, interned at the base camp Friedrichsfeld, shot at a working camp in the act of attacking a sentry.
• Deaths of prisoners of war through accidents.
• Death of Private Henry Richardson, a British prisoner-of-war at Muster in German.
• Shooting at Sennelager of prisoner Private Joseph Barry, 2nd Scots Guard.
• Accidental death of Frederic Tombs and Charles Lunt at a coal mine in Herne.
• Shooting of British prisoners by German sentries.
• Death of Private Joseph Barry.
• Death of Benjamin Stone, Royal Naval Division, prisoner of war in Germany.
• Death of Sergeant J I Rodger, B/107th Brigade, by bayonet at Giessen Camp, Germany.
• Death of Private John Sullivan, 1st Irish Guards, while a prisoner of war in Germany.
• Death of Sergeant John Rodger, Royal Field Artillery, of pulmonary tuberculosis.
• Investigation into the death by suicide of Private Benjamin Stone, British prisoner-of-war.
• Death of Private Henry Richardson.
• Death of Thomas Sheehan, Royal Munster Regiment of Foot.
• Death of Lieutenant Victor E Osborne, Oxford and Bucks Regiment.

Code 1218 Files 1294-1882.