The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 at this camp was 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 the 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. 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.
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 requi
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
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
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
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
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
