First World War Internee Edwin Max Friedrich Karl Arnold Mieg inside an Internment Hut (Theatrical Scenery Painters?), Douglas or Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man
Date(s): ?1918
Scope & Content: The identification of Edwin Max Friedrich Karl Arnold Mieg is based upon the prisoner number 15053 which appears on the glass plate, and comparison with the repatriation lists which appears on the ICRC website. His Red Cross information bureau number was 679C. He arrived Knockaloe 10/8/15 Held first at Gibraltar. Age 24 Gefreiter Grenadier Regt 119 number 11/08. Reservist. Home address: Klaiber, Stuttgart, Tubingerstr 41.
NB the man on the right bears a strong resemblence to Bruno Paul Wind (actor and theatre director) who appears in other photos in this series.
Language: eng
Extent: overall: 16 cm x 12 cm
Physical description: Black & white glass half-plate negative
Item name: photograph
Collection: Photographic Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: PG/7870/41193
Subject tags : hut interior theatre scenery