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Knockaloe Internment Camp ship model

Date made: 1915

Description: Rigged ship model (naive) of a four masted barque made by a prisoner at Knockaloe Camp, c.1915, and given to the donor's uncle, 'Philip Kelly', the camp baker.

This is possibly Philip Kelly of 53 Bucks Road, Douglas, who appears on the 1911 Census as a Baker, aged 38.

Materials: glass, wood

Object name: model

Collection: Social History Collection

ID Number: 1985-0164

Subject tags : #WW1INTERNMENTMUSEUMCOLLECTIONS

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