Deportation

I've been keeping an eye on an online forum of people attempting to track down the 1100 Lithuanians that were deported from Britain to Imperial Russia in 1917 under the Anglo-Russian Military Convention:  http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=168247&pid=1810171.

As I've written before, I believe my great-grandfather Kazimiras Kisielius was one of those deported under the treaty.  Now it seems that the records that say who was sent away might well have been located.  They're held at the British National Archives in Kew.  This is the reference posted by one of the forum contributors:

Reference: HO 144/13339
Description: ALIENS (see also Nationality and Naturalisation): Repatriation of Russian political refugees and deportation of undesirable Poles and Russians after the revolution of 1917
Date: 1917-1918
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former references: in its original department: 332758/1-121
Legal status: Public Record
Access conditions: Closed Until 2005
Record opening date: 23 September 2005

Copying Process No. of Units Unit Cost Process Cost
PaperMonoA3 317 £1.00 £317.00

It costs a fortune to have them copied, but another forum contributor might go there, where they are (presumably) free to view.  If he doesn't go, I certainly will.