Enemy Aliens, Prisoners of War: Internment in Canada during the Great War, and: A Bare and Impolitic Right: Internment and Ukrainian-Canadian Redress (review)

2006 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 368-370
Author(s):  
Lubomyr Y Luciuk
Keyword(s):  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Great War ◽  
The Great War

The American-German Conference on Prisoners of War

1919 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 406-449
Author(s):  
Raymond Stone
Keyword(s):  
Geneva Convention ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Great War ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
The Hague ◽  
The Great War

When, in 1914, the Great War broke upon an astonished world, we rather took comfort to ourselves in the thought that no matter how swiftly and vigorously military operations might be prosecuted, the Conventions of Geneva and of The Hague would insure humane care and chivalrous treatment to the prisoners of war of both sides. Perhaps unconsciously we based our feeling of assurance in this regard upon two assumptions. The first of these was that the terms of those conventions were of themselves legally binding upon the parties to the great conflict; and the second that in this day and generation of high development in the elements of morality and humanity the belligerents would feel themselves morally if not technically constrained to abide by the principles, and to follow, in practice, the honorable provisions of the conventions.There are two particular conventions falling under consideration in this connection. These are, the Convention Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, generally referred to as Hague IV of 1907; and the Convention for the Adaptation to Maritime War of the Principles of the Geneva Convention of 1906, commonly known as Hague X of 1907. Each of these agreements contains a provisional article, practically identical in the two instances, worded substantially as follows:The provisions contained … in the present convention do not apply except between contracting parties, and only if all the belligerents are parties to the convention.

Canada through World War I

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian C. D. Moffat
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Home Front ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
Canadian Army ◽  
British Colony ◽  
The One ◽  
The Great War

The Great War was the world event that began the evolution of Canada from a self-governing British colony to a great independent country. However, one of Canada’s failings is its self-deprecation and modesty. Canada has produced a number of historic works documenting and analyzing Canada’s accomplishments and the individuals who made them happen. Although much was written by actual participants in the interwar years, the majority of the objective and analytical works have only slowly emerged after the Second World War when history became a respected academic discipline. This annotated bibliography gives a cross section of the Canadian Great War historiography with the majority of the work having been produced after 1980. The Canadian Army and the role of Canadians serving in the British Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service have good coverage in Canadian monographs. The one area of study that has a dearth of work is on the Royal Canadian Navy since it had a very small role in the Great War and did not come into its own until after 1939. Nonetheless, there are a number of works included that show the Navy’s fledgling accomplishments between 1914 and 1918, as well as the efforts of the British Admiralty to restrict the Royal Canadian Navy’s actions in defense of its own area of operations. This bibliography also contains works on prisoners of war, the psychological effects of trench warfare on Canadians serving at the front, the internment of enemy aliens in Canada, and effects of the war on the home front, including one French work analyzing French Quebec’s changing attitude to World War I over the length of the 20th century.

scholarly journals Hadifoglyok és a Nagy Háború

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-76
Author(s):  
Oszkár Gorcsa
Keyword(s):  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
The State ◽  
Great War ◽  
Laws Of War ◽  
International Laws ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Multilateral Treaties

The study presents the evolution of the international laws of war, focusing especially on the Geneva and Hague Conventions, which were the first multilateral treaties that addressed the conduct of warfare. Furthermore, I attempt to answer the question of why men kept fighting, why they didn’t choose surrender instead. I also deal with the moment of capture, and the legislations regarding prisoners of war in Austria–Hungary. I also expound on introducing the situations in the austro–hungarian POW camps. Furthermore, the study depicts in detail the economic capability of the state after the outbreak of the Great War.

scholarly journals Russia and Spain during the Great War (1914–1918)

2015 ◽  
pp. 35-46
Author(s):  
S. I. Cherniavsky
Keyword(s):  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Great War ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Russian Citizen

The article is devoted to cooperation between Russia and Spain to assist deported Russian citizen and prisoners of war in 1914–1918.

scholarly journals Prigionieri di guerra ungheresi all’Aquila (1915-1919)

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 183-197
Author(s):  
Bálint Takács
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Great War ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Internment Camps ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Prison Camp ◽  
The Great War

The aim of this paper is to present the life of Hungarian prisoners of war in the internment camps of L’Aquila, a city situated in the central part of Italy, during and after the Great War. The POWs were first detained in the caserma Castello (Castle barracks), which is a 16th-century fortress where units of the Italian Army were stationing as well at that time. This made it possible for the POWs to lead a relatively idyllic life, whose various aspects are examined in the paper, such as nutrition, accommodation, clothing, correspondence, religious life, daily routine and employment. The sources used include archival documents, two memoirs of ex-POWs and newspaper articles. The comfortable life of the POWs was dimmed by the lack of their families and the Homeland, the idleness and certain infectious diseases. From the summer of 1916, the prisoners were employed in agricultural and industrial works outside the prison camp and were hence transferred from the fortress to barracks and unused churches. It is unknown when the last Hungarian POW left L’Aquila, and yet one of them is proven to have been there still in July 1919.

Will the Trojan War take place? Violations of the rules of war and the Battle of the Dardanelles (1915)

2015 ◽  
Vol 97 (900) ◽  
pp. 1047-1064
Author(s):  
Emre Öktem ◽  
Alexandre Toumarkine
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
The Other ◽  
Great War ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
World War ◽  
Political Propaganda ◽  
Trojan War ◽  
The One ◽  
The Great War

AbstractThe Battle of the Dardanelles is one of the key episodes of World War I on the Ottoman front between the British, the French, the Australians and New Zealanders on the one side, and the Ottoman army under German command on the other. Immediately after the Great War, the former belligerents engaged in another war, which protracts up until the present day: allegations of violations of the rules of war are mutually addressed, in order to become a salient element of political propaganda. Through the analysis of the major controversial issues (use of dum-dum bullets and asphyxiating gases, attacks on non-military objects and sites, treatment of prisoners of war) and the study of various sources (official documents, correspondence and reports issued by belligerent forces, memoirs of Dardanelles’ veterans, ICRC reports) this article scrutinizes two crucial questions. Were the rules of war taken seriously on the battlefield? Was the law instrumentalized by the belligerents?

scholarly journals Henry Gray and John Fraser: Scottish surgeons of the Great War

Res Medica ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-102
Author(s):  
Tom Scotland
Keyword(s):  
High Explosive ◽  
Military History ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Great War ◽  
British Military ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Battle Of The Somme

Between 1914 and 1918, the British Expeditionary Force fighting in France and Flanders sustained 2.7 million battle casualties. Just over one quarter (26.1%) were never seen by the medical services. These were men who had been killed (14.2%), were missing (5.4%), or were prisoners of war (6.5%). Most of those who were missing had been killed and their bodies never recovered. Just under three-quarters of the wounded (73.9% or 1 988 969) were seen and treated by the medical services and 151 356 died.[i] The worst single day in British military history was Saturday 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, when there were 57 470 casualties, of whom 20 000 were killed or died from their wounds. In nearly a quarter of a million admissions dealt with by the medical services, 58.5% of wounds were caused by high-explosive shellfire, 39% by bullets (mostly from machine guns), 2% were caused by grenades, and 0.5% from bayonets.  

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