The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Pig farming was one of the projects at which internees at No. 14 Prisoner of War and Internees Group were employed at Loveday Internment Camp, South Australia. On 15 January 1946 a consignment of 172 bacon pigs from the Camp were forwaded to the Adelaide Abattoirs. At the time, it was the largest single consignment of bacon pigs offered at the Abattoirs and created an all-time record. Loveday Internmnet Camp was located near Barmera on the Murray River. The camp accommodated German, Italian and Japanese internees from various states in Australia and internees and POWs from the Netherlands East Indies, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, Britain and the Middle East. The camp comprised six compounds and the maximum number of internees (3,951) was reached in March 1942. Max Ragless was appointed official war artist in March 1945 and he was commissioned to record home-front activities, including mobilisation of primary and civil industries to war-related production.
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
Depicts two men sitting inside their living quarters at Loveday Camp in South Australia. This work was completed by the German internee in the camp Carl Georg von Brandenstein who was known to his fr
At the age of 30 Edward Quicke joined the Home Guard in February 1942 when Singapore fell to the Japanese. He was a dairy and fruit farmer and the secretary of the Binggup Primary Produces Association
Japanese civilian internees are harvesting the pyrethrum daisy grown at the No. 14 Prisoner of War and Internee Camp. From the blossoms is extracted pyrethin, the basic element in insecticides used by
Internees at the Loveday Internment Camp. The Loveday Internment Camp opened in 1941 and was comprised of four separate compounds. During its peak, the camp held over 5000 internees who produced goods
Group portrait of male internees at the Loveday Internment Camp. The Loveday Internment Camp opened in 1941 and was comprised of four separate compounds. During its peak, the camp held over 5000 inter
