Catalogue description Turkey: Prisoners, containing: Treatment of British prisoners of war at the British...

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Details of FO 383/530
Reference: FO 383/530
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Turkey: Prisoners, containing:

Treatment of British prisoners of war at the British Hospital at Nazareth: copy a report by the hospital matron, Miss Edith Johncock.

Arrest by the Turkish Government of certain Turks involved in the ill-treatment of British prisoners.

Relief of Australian naval prisoners of war.

Power of military courts in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Constantinople (Istanbul).

Lists of persons whose arrest has been demanded from the Ottoman Government in connection with the treatment of prisoners of war.

Rent paid by five English officers at Kedos.

Communication regarding the award of the Royal Red Cross, second class, to nurse Johncock (Edith Johncock), as published in the London Gazette on 4 April 1919.

Certain prisoners of war in India.

Arrest of Turks in breech of international law.

Information from Mr Hoffman Philip regarding the ill-treatment of British prisoners by Turkish officers.

Treatment and relief of British prisoners.

Hanging of Kemal (formerly Governor of Boshazlian and later of Yoshat) for his involvement in the massacres of Christians during the war.

Misappropriation by Turks of parcels sent to British prisoners.

Monthly relief allowance for British prisoners.

Surrender of Turkish officials and punishment of offenders, with a First list of recommendations for arrest.

List of persons implicated in ill-treatment of prisoners of war and letters to the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs demanding their arrest.

Turkish outrages: list of Persian subjects and a German alleged to have committed massacres.

Arrest of Turkish officials.

Appreciation of Major Haidar Bey, formerly Commandant of Turkish prison at Konia, for the good treatment afforded to British prisoners.

Relief of Indian prisoners in Asia Minor.

Internment of Field Marshal Liman von Sanders, taken from the Etha Rickmers.

Arrest of certain Germans in connection with the ill-treatment of British prisoners.

Experiences of A J Sambrook as a prisoner of war in the hands of the Turks.

Treatment of Turkish prisoners interned at Malta.

Nominal list of Turkish high ranking officials deported in HMS Princess Ena to Mudros (island of Lemnos) and to Malta.

Whereabouts of seaman Gallagher or Gallacher, fireman on SS Assiout; enquiries after A J Sambrook report.

Trial of Turkish offenders for failure to comply with the armistice, ill-treatment of prisoners, outrages to Armenians, looting, and so on.

Code 1244 File 105 (papers 3892-6222).

Date: 1919
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: File 105 (pp.3892-6222).
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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