Camp 13: Camp and Community

Place Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Murchison
Accession Number MSS1808
Collection type Manuscript
Measurement 1 wallet: 1cm
Object type Manuscript
Maker Plunkett, Leonie
Date made 1999
Access Open
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Description

Post Graduate thesis examining the relationship between Camp 13, the World War II prisoner of war camp housing Italian, German and Japanese prisoners established at Murchison in Victoria from 1941 to 1947, its guards and the local commmunity, including the adjoining districts of Tatura and Rushworth. Thesis also examines how the camp is remembered today.