The prisoners of Mainz (1919)

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The prisoners of Mainz

By Alec Waugh ( brother of Evelyn

Mike

[Borden Battery]

Here are two websites with some additional information. Borden Battery

International Red Cross [iCRC] and the First World War

On 12 October 1914 the ICRC began setting up a system for processing prisoner of war information. An index card for each prisoner was classified by nationality, in files which also contained requests for information. As soon as a piece of information was matched with a request, the Agency was able to send a reply to the family or the place of origin of the prisoner of war concerned. During the war the Agency made out 4,805,000 index cards and dispatched 1,854,914 parcels and consignments of collective relief. In some cases, Great War researchers are able to obtain information from the ICRC. [CEF Study Group - Sept 2005]

http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList74/2FDBD82390D1CD18C1256B66005E78E4

Prisoners of the Great War; authoritative statement of conditions in the prison camps of Germany (1919)

CEF Study Group – Oct 2010]

http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027867039