First World War internee Richard Lorenz Heinrich Wiefel in front of an internment hut, Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man
Date(s): ?1918
Scope & Content: The identification as Richard Lorenz Heinrich Wiefel is based upon the prisoner number 24959 which appears on the glass plate and comparison with the repatriation lists which appear on the ICRC website. His Red Cross information bureau number was 49365. He arrived at Knockaloe 6/7/16.
Ancestry records that he was born 31 January 1891 and married in Hamburg 5 August 1920. He appears to have died from cardiac and bronchial complications in 1943 in Hesse, Germany. His son died as a prisoner of war in France in 1945, and the son's death certificate records his father's occupation as Interpreter (Dolmetscher).
Nationality: German
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/7870/39756