The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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
Quicke painted this portrait while interned at Loveday. Loveday is a small town in South Australia and was the site of one of Australia's largest internment camps during the Second World War World War. The camp was built to house German, Italian and Japanese internees and prisoners of war. At its peak, the camp held 5380 as well as over 1500 Australian Military Personnel. The camps supplied a variety of products including morphine, which was made for the forces from the harvested opium poppies grown in the camp grounds.
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
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
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
Image taken at number 14 camp gardens, Loveday Internment Camp. VX137425 Driver (DVR) Percival James Torbet stands in part of the fifty-acre crop of opium poppies (Papaver Somniferum) sown in March 19
Image taken at number 14 camp gardens, Loveday Internment Camp. A man's wrist (probably VX137425 Driver Percival James Torbet) gives a comparison of the size of a poppy flower in part of the fifty-acr
