page_title: George Kenner
section_title: History of internment
hierarchical_section_title: George Kenner / History of internment
caption_attribution_description: English: View of a Pow Camp, Isle of Man, 1915-1919 image: a view looking down at the camp from a hillside, with a seated prisoner in the foreground. The camp stands in a valley and consists of rows of low huts, surrounded by a high wire fence. On the hillside in the foreground prisoners in brown clothing appear to be at work, tending the gardens.
context_page_description: George Kenner was a German artist. He made 110 paintings and drawings during the First World War while interned as a German civilian prisoner of war in Great Britain and the Isle of Man.
context_section_description: Kenner was held at three camps, and recorded scenes from each in his artwork: On May 12, 1915, he was first sent to a temporary tent camp built on Frith Hill, on an area which is now part of the Pine Ridge Golf Centre, near Frimley, in Surrey. The camp grew to hold 2,000 civilian prisoners, but was considered unsuitable for the approaching winter. On September 29, 1915 Kenner was sent to Alexandra Palace in North London. 3,000 internees were held in three sections. Conditions were better here. In June 1916, Kenner was sent to the Knockaloe internment camp near Peel on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea. This camp held 30,000 civilian prisoners for the remainder of the war and beyond. He was finally sent back to Germany in a prisoner exchange in March 1919, four months after the Armistice.
caption: View of P.O.W. Camp, Isle of Man. The Knockaloe internment camp near Peel on the Isle of Man, May 1918.
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