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Isle of Man / Re: WW1 Internment Camp at Knockaloe
« on: Sunday 11 October 09 21:18 BST (UK)  »
You are so lucky you have his prisoner number. You can contact the International Red Cross woh evacuated the prisoners, they are listed by number. And again, since you have the number the National Archives at Kew
could probably help you. Good luck.
Siri Galliano
Los Angeles

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Isle of Man / Re: WWi PRisoner Numbers
« on: Sunday 12 July 09 19:16 BST (UK)  »
There is an autobiography, Time Stood Still, written by a German artist
interred in England, and then Douglas. Having no paints he became a writer
and wrote his experience and described the physical conditions. once when he
had to go to the hospital he describes being escorted out the barbed wire.
If you had a little money, the hospital was a good place to be, more food.

I read a history book on the IOM and they just never mentioned the war
or the camps. do you think they are embarassed, horrified, in denial,
dont care?
SDG

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Isle of Man / Re: WWi PRisoner Numbers
« on: Sunday 12 July 09 17:41 BST (UK)  »
Pilates didnt die in camp though.
I have the British records too. most people were in the hospital for
TB or venereal diseases.

I am wondering since the hospitals were otside the wire, if the
Manx soldiers returning from war didnt go there too.

Have a fabulous book called 150 years of Manx Murders,
gives great cultural descriptions. just looking for the feel of the island
and island people and cant wait to hear their accents.

Interested in spring mattresses, as they say that;s where Pilates
got the idea to use springs as resistance for hospital patients on IOM;
lots of rumors and myths.

Loving the IOM, been collecting things like an obsessed idiot.
What a fascinating place, magic, and with an undercurrent of
mystery. Today they say it is a bigger place than the Cayman islands
to hide money.

so IOM owed Britain for the war and they just took over the island
as a prison. wow.
thank you for your response.
Siri Galliano
Big Bear , California

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Isle of Man / Re: WWi PRisoner Numbers
« on: Sunday 12 July 09 16:35 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for your lengthy reply. I do know all that.
However, after researching in England, there are records of when and where
people were arrested(by the way the camps were first called 'concentration
camps'

I have proof from International Red Cross that he was there.
I have many, if not all the books, and a trip planned to IOM in September,
that is way exciting, as is this chatpage.

I am just looking for anyone's number to know what it begins with,or how
many numbers in one, or are there letters. It is like Cold Case(a show here
in the USA).

I dont think I would recognize a picture of him.
I am impressed by how well everyone was dressed.
I do have James Baily, the Quaker who taught the prisoners how to build
furniture, book. He got all his photos from the Manx Heritage museum.

My story is some committed suicide, many got barbed wire disease,
and some became enlightened. Pilates developed his method of
physical and mental conditioning there, he says he worked out a thousand
men and worked in the hospital.

thank you for you reply.
siri

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Isle of Man / Re: WW1 Internment Camp at Knockaloe
« on: Sunday 04 January 09 18:31 GMT (UK)  »
Hello. I did not get the photo.perhaps if you send it directly to my
email, which is (*). I can also reimburse you
for the cost of duplicating and mailing it.

I do not know Joe Pilates hut or prisoner number. One of my students
in Switzerland contacted the red Cross for me, we just needed his birthdate.
this is the first documented proof I have of his internment, and also, he
changed the spelling of his name, so that was interesting.
They did not give me the full information I desired, which was, when did he
leave the island, as you might know, it took a year to evacuate that many men,
and where did he go, some took whatever boat was going East, not necessarily direct to Germany.

I am using the pictures, first, as i give the lecture of Joe Pilates life, to  make
the camp more real. I am only in the proposal phase of a book or docudrama,
to earn more money to research it and write it.  I need to go to England and
the Isle of Man and Germany.
Happy New Year,
Siri Galliano



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Isle of Man / Re: WW1 Internment Camp at Knockaloe
« on: Sunday 04 January 09 01:39 GMT (UK)  »
know that, been looking along time, here's something for you from the Brits.

The daily dietary for a prisoner of war, which up till then had been more liberal, was laid down on April 13th, 1917, to consist of—

Bread 8 ounces
Flour ¾ ,,
Salt-cured Herrings 5 ,,
Meat (fresh or frozen) on five days a week 6 ,,
Meat, preserved (tinned) on five days a week . 3 ,,
Salt-cured Codfish (or Herrings) on two days a week , 12 ,,
Margarine 1,,
Tea 3/8 ,,
or Coffee ¾ ,,
Sugar 1 ,,
Milk (condensed) 1-20th of 1 lb. tin.
Salt ½ ounces.
Pepper (black) 1.72 ,,
Oatmea1 3 ,,
Syrup or Jam 1 ,,
Split Peas or Beans or Rice 2 ,,
Fresh Vegetables 10 ,,
Each Prisoner of War employed on work was given four ounces of bread and one ounce of cheese in addition. On the 18th March, 1918, as a result of still further food shortage in the country, the above daily dietary was modified as follows:—

Bread 5 ounces.
Biscuit 3 ,,
Flour ¾ ,,
*meat (fresh or frozen) on five days a week 4 ,,
or Meat, preserved (tinned) on five days a week 3 ,,
Salt-cured Herrings, on two days a week 12 ,,
Edible Fat ½ ,,
Tea V,,
or Coffee ½ ounces.
Sugar .1 ,,
Salt ½ ,,
Pepper (black) 1/72 ,,
Oatmeal . 4 ,,
Syrup or Jam 1 ,,
Split Peas, or Beans, or Rice1 ,
Potatoes . . 20 ,,
Fresh Vegetables (other than Potatoes~. . 4 ,,
*On three days when fresh or frozen meat was issued, eight ounces of herring were issued in addition.

Each Prisoner of War employed on work received two ounces of bread, three ounces of biscuit, and one ounce of cheese in addition. In no other case was this additional food given, except on medical certificate.

SDG

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Isle of Man / Re: WW1 Internment Camp at Knockaloe
« on: Saturday 03 January 09 23:04 GMT (UK)  »
Joe Pilates was at Knockaloe, the worst of the camps.
They said he developed his method of fitness from working with
patients in the hospital, taking the springs from the bed and having
them do exercises. I find it hard to believe there were springs in beds
or cots. The British documents say most of the patients were in the
hospital for venereal disease or TB.  The German prisoner who wrote
an autobiography about his time at Knockaloe says the prisoners organized
the camp activities, so I can surmise Joe Pilates either led the exercises
for the men in the morning or was part of the prisoner's police force.

it's amazing, he lived until he was 86, but never mentioned his time
in the camp, except to say he was there. Now I'm trying to find out
if his brother was also there. They were traveling and performing in
a circus in England when the war broke out and Joe Pilates was at
Lancaster the first year.

Good point about Cunningham, though, I've read all that, but maybe
the hospital in Douglas was well equipped.

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Isle of Man / Re: WW1 Internment Camp at Knockaloe
« on: Saturday 03 January 09 18:13 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you, yes, I'm a year i nto this research. I need to go there as they
dont have the staff to duplicate anything so I am planning a visit in April.
Most records have been destroyed. I have contacted the Swiss Red Cross and
received oonfirmation from them, though, that was exciting.
Thank you, thank you.

I have read the British reports on the camp. Joe Pilates worked in the
camp hospital and the reports say they were very well equipped(how can that be) I am trying to find information on spring beds the camps had poor furnishings, but apparantly not the hospitals, which perhaps, since
located outside the barbed wire, were also used for returning injured Manx soldiers.

thank you, thank you, I've been alone in my quest and it is exciting to know other people.
Siri Galliano

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Isle of Man / Re: WW1 Internment Camp at Knockaloe
« on: Saturday 03 January 09 02:44 GMT (UK)  »
How fabulous!
My address is:
Siri Galliano
10524 W.Pico Blvd. #218
Los Angeles, Ca 90064
USA

I hope to write a docudrama about the camp, it is really an untold story.
I have read about it from a german prisoner, two fiction books written
by Manx people, the Baily Quaker book, and the British documents,
which tell what and how much they ate, how the camps were run, etc.
Some people dies, some people killed, some went crazy, some became
enlightened. It is sad, but triumphant too.
Thank you, thank you, thank you,
SDG

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