WWi PRisoner Numbers

[Frances_mnb]

I suspect the history book was the slim two volume paperbacks designed mainly for schoolchildren - the WW1 camps had little lasting impact on the Island which probably lost more men/head of population in WW1 than almost anywhere else in the British Isles.  I'm not sure quite what UK immigration policy had to do with internment of aliens during WW1 & 2 but maybe the same reasons the US interned americans of Japanese descent during WW2?

[mariah]

Hello,

I have a photo of my husband's grandfather, Josef Brunneder, who was a German Sea Captain who was captured and detained at the Isle of Man during WWI.  You can actually see the barbed wire fences in the background.  One of the men is in Tyrol garb, granddad in a vest with his watch and fob.  We have the watch and fob.  All are sporting large mustaches.  They look well fed, healthy and fit. 

There are three men, one was the cook and another a friend.  The friend has a brick at his feet and the brick is numbered 3333.  The information on the photo for Josef Brunneder b. February 3, 1870 d. January 3, 1973 Munich Germany is No 360 Compound 5 Hut II R Peel Isle of Man

He sent home several carved vases made from large beef bones that are truly works of art. He made his own carving tools from Tan Can Lids.  The vases depict his daughters in fancy garb walking on cobble stones. One vase has Isle of Man carved into it and bunnies in a basket so it must have been sent home for Easter.  The other vase has a man with a plummed hat very much like a Mustketeer. 

[mariah]

Sorry, correction   Joseph Brunneder No. 3660 Compound 5 Hut IIR Peel Isle of Man

[AGUAAZUL]

Hello

I have ancestors who were interned in Isle of Man during w.w.1
Have looked in the manx museum but they have no names on any photos. But there are good books to be  read.
My German ancestors were living in England and Ireland, married to English and Irish wives. All were sent back to Germany after the war and many returned back again to u.k. and Ireland.
One brother born in Germany was interned in Isle of Man while his brother who was born in U.K. was interned in Germany!

[Frances_mnb]

The immediate postwar period was somewhat vindictive (maybe understandable given the number of deaths on both sides) especially stoked by some of what would now be described as the tabloid press - the novel by Hall Caine  "Woman of Knockaloe" - http://www.manxnotebook.com/fulltext/hcwk1923/index.htm though fictional was written by a novelist who had been involved in war time propaganda and who also lived probably within sight of the camp shows some of these feelings