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Description: | Papers (mostly in English with some in German, Hungarian and other languages) pertaining to his work as head of the British Military Mission in Vienna between November 1918 – February 1919 with particular responsibility for the location, welfare and repatriation of British prisoners of war held in camps in the former Austro-Hungarian territories, also with regard to POWs of other Allied nationalities, comprising: various items of official correspondence pertaining to the work of the Mission; reports by Summerhayes and others on the situation in various POW and internment camps in Austria, on the disposal of British POW parcels accumulated in the Sigmundsherberg camp, and on civilian poverty in Vienna and Prague in early 1919; laissez-passer, transport and travel documents issued in connection with the work of the Mission; personal letters from British and Austrian nationals in Vienna requesting assistance from the Summerhayes Mission, particularly in relation to the acute shortage of foodstuffs and other necessities in the immediate postwar period; two issues of Viennese newspapers carrying photographs of the Mission, and photostat copies of a few further photographs [Summerhayes served as Medical Officer with the RAMC and Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in France and Italy during the First World War].
Cataloguer SWW | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Summerhayes, John Orlando | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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