First World War Internee Schuler Erwin von der Wippel, Tennis Courts, Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man
Date(s): ?1918
Scope & Content: The identification of Schuler Erwin von der Wippel is based upon the prisoner number 20845 which is marked on the glass plate, and comparison with the numbers in the parcel label collection held by MNH at MS10985. Details on label: Camp 4, Compound 2, Hut 2B. From parcel label:- Sender – R.v.d. Wippel, Leipzig, Eisenbahnstr. 80.
Erwin Kurt Ferdinand von der Wippel appears on a list at Handforth Camp in November 1914. NOK address: Rhein. von der Wippel, Leipzig-Neustadt, Neustadterstr.15. Red Cross information bureau number 26349.
He is the man on the left based on comparison with other images in this series. The other man possibly a Turkish or Ottoman prisoner?
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/7870/40537
Subject tags : tennis, sport.