First World War internees including Joseph Pilates inside an internment hut Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man
Date(s): ?1917
Scope & Content: The glass plate is marked with name and prisoner number Pilatos 16626
This corresponds to Joseph Pilatos in the Red Cross POW database, later known as Joseph Pilates the inventor of the Pilates fitness programme. He appears in prisoner list 1 A 200 of November 1914. Home address shown as: 22 Melbourne Street, Blackpool, England. Birthplace: Munchen-Gladbach. Age: 30. Red Cross Information bureau number 14001.
Pilates can be seen seated on the right, the strabismus in one of his eyes is also visible in later life photos. Pilates was travelling in England with a circus when war broke out in 1914.
Language: English
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/7870/38142
Subject tags : hut interior.