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They
boarded
the
ship
Slieve
Bloom,
a
vessel
that
was
usually
reserved
for
the
transport
of
cattle.
The
prisoners
were
without
food
and
water
for
thirty
hours
until
they
reached
Wakefield,
Yorkshire,
in
England.
On
arrival
in
England,
the
prisoners
were
sent
to
various
prisons
such
as
Knutsford,
Stafford,
Wandsworth,
Woking,
Lewes
and
Wakefield
where
they
were
held
for
a
few
weeks.
Here
they
campaigned
for
Prisoner
of
War
Status.
Prisoners
settled
in,
with
new
internees
arriving
everyday
by
train.
Those
held
within
its
barbed
war
defences,
decided
to
'make
what
they
could
of
it'.
They
saw
themselves
as
an
army
and
Brennan-Whitmore
was
appointed
as
their
Camp
Adjutant.
They
created
a
military
academy,
a
University
of
Revolution.
After
roll
call
in
the
morning,
the
men
under
military
command,
with
a
strict
routine
of
marches,
drills
and
military
formations.
They
also
planned
for
the
next
phase
in
the
campaign,
one
of
insurgency
against
the
Britsh
Empire.
Classes
on
strategy
and
tactics
were
developed.
Frognoch
began
life
as
a
whiskey
distillery
and
repurposed
by
the
British
government
as
a
POW
camp
for
German
soldiers
during
WW1.
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