First World War internee, E.Cecil Kny Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man
Date(s): ?1917
Scope & Content: Written on the glass plate is 'Mr Kny No 90' (this may be a reference to Hut 90 rather that prisoner number. Identified from other images as E.Cecil Kny. The same man appears in PG/7870/38235/2, again with the name 'Mr Kny'. He was the camp secretary of Camp IV but was considered by some internees as too pro-British, to the extent that he was sometimes verbally and physically abused.
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/7870/38236/1
Subject tags : studio portrait.