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Opium poppies growing at the Loveday Internment Group, Barmera, South Australia. These have been grown most successfully at Loveday, and from them is extracted a large proportion of the morphine requirements of the Australian Military Forces. A chronology of events at the Loveday Group Camp records on 17 December 1945 completion of picking 107 acres of opium poppy heads that were then packed into 301 wool bales. It was the largest harvest of opium poppies ever to be gathered in Australia.
Depicts Opium poppies under cultivation at No. 14 Prisoner of War and Internees group at Loveday internmnet camp in South Australia. Crops were tended by the internees with much success. From the crop
BARMERA, SA 1944-01. NO. 14 CAMP GARDENS, LOVEDAY INTERNMENT GROUP. GERMAN INTERNEES LOADING BALES OF POPPY HEADS ONTO A TRUCK FOR TRANSPORT TO BARMERA RAILWAY STATION. AN INITIAL FIFTY ACRE CROP OF O
BARMERA, SA 1944-01. NO. 14 CAMP GARDENS, LOVEDAY INTERNMENT GROUP. A THREE TON TRUCK AND TRAILER LOADED WITH BALES OF POPPY HEADS ABOUT TO LEAVE FOR BARMERA RAILWAY STATION. AN INITIAL FIFTY ACRE CRO
BARMERA, SA 1945-10. NO. 14 CAMP GARDENS, LOVEDAY INTERNMENT GROUP. A SECTION OF THE 1O6 ACRE OPIUM POPPY (PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM) CROP IN FLOWER. AT THE TIME THIS WAS THE LARGEST CROP EVER GROWN IN THE C
BARMERA, SA 1945-10. NO. 14 CAMP GARDENS, LOVEDAY INTERNMENT GROUP. A SECTION OF THE 1O6 ACRE OPIUM POPPY (PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM) CROP IN FLOWER. AT THE TIME THIS WAS THE LARGEST CROP EVER GROWN IN THE C
BARMERA, SA 1943-10. NO. 14 CAMP GARDENS, LOVEDAY INTERNMENT GROUP. PART OF A FIFTY ACRE CROP OF OPIUM POPPIES (PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM) SOWN IN 1943-03 THAT FLOWERED IN 1943-10 AND WERE HARVESTED IN 1943-
