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OCR

[...]ompilation of this brief History of Internment in South Australia is primarily intended
to place on record m[...]
[...]appointed to record the
HISTORY OF INTERNMENT
IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA

STATE LiBF.,‘-XRY OF
SOUTH AULWRALIA
fiiaum Aust:'alian
rficifection[...]
INIERNMENT

IN
SIIIIIH AUSTRALIA

REQUIREMENTS

On the outbreak of war in Septembe[...]who were considered dangerous to
the security of Australia, and whose activities
might be detrimental to the[...]risoners of

War from the Middle East.

LOCATION

Australia having agreed to accept Internees
from the United[...]ed in the centre of the River
Murray Districts of South Australia, and is
connected to Adelaide by road (145 miles)[...]e known as No. 9 and
No. 10 Internment Camps (see maps)-each
consisting of a Camp HQ of forty bui[...]
[...]Compound
area was divided by roads running north/south
and east/west, thus making four segments,[...]
[...]S.O.) selected two sites at Loveday
near Barmera, South Australia, and approval

was given by Commandant 4MD (Brig.[...]here to facilitate movement of troops
to Northern Australia.

6 MAY 1941. HQ, 4MD received advice from
Southern Command that 2,000 Italian PsW
would be sent to South Australia. (This did
not materialise.)

19 MAY 1941.[...]
[...]of Moo-
rook West Wood Camp situated twelve miles
south of the river.

1 NOVEMBER 1942. Consequent[...]
[...]een one of the most diflicult and dan-
gerous in Australia, as its inmates were over;
seas Germans——most[...]ent
for grape-picking in the River Murray area of
South Australia.

18 FEBRUARY 1944. Camps 9, 10 and M00-
r[...]
[...]ee
“Deaths”.)

4 DECEMBER 1945. Harvesting of Australia’s

largest crop of pyrethrum completed. Yield:[...]national war-
time product ever to be gathered in Australia.

3]. DECEMBER 1945. 1945 has been a momen-
tous[...]eping huts in
l4»A/B Security Guard Camp sold to South
Australian Railways.

20 FEBRUARY 1946. Th[...]
[...]r
sent to field bakeries in the islands north of
Australia.

The Unit was known as the 33 Fd Bak Pl,[...]
[...]themselves, and to the success of Intern-
ment in South Australia. Men constantly em-
ployed were healthier[...]
[...]on, and because of the
labour shortage throughout Australia, selected
internees were released, mostly under r[...]this movement, only
three internees were left in South Australia.
They were all Germans——one in civil d[...]
[...]every direction except on the sandy hills to
the south of the camps, and on the mud flats
adjacent to t[...]o a new camp site at Moo-
rook West, twelve miles south of Moorook
township.

M00fl00K.WEST

PsW[...]
[...]etention, the war-time expedient of internment in South Australia was

brought to a close on 28 Feb. ’46.

The Lo[...]ons chosen for the purpose of internment camps in Australia.

During the period of internment, Ministers of t[...]tities, at a time when they were unprocurable

in Australia, and urgently needed both for Army and civ[...]
[...]tead, a story of vision and enterprise which
gave Australia a war contribution seldom equalled, and

which pr[...]ived by the other
dozen or so internment camps in Australia combined-
from the sale of produce, much of which[...]and these
were sent to Army formations throughout South Aus-
tralia and the Northern Territory.

46,000 LB. OF SEED

Before the war the United States supplied Australia
with almost all her vegetable seed requirements,[...]ny other
projects, this was started in 1943, when Australia had to
produce certain badly-needed commodities o[...]derably more than is grown
throughout the rest of Australia——when it is harvested
this month.

The[...]

MD

South Australia. Committee appointed to record the History of Internment in South Australia
Internment in South Australia
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Internees and prisoners of war in Australia during World War Two
Concentration camps -- South Australia
South Australians at war
[...]soners of war : Internees and prisoners of war in Australia