Group portrait of male internees at the Loveday Internment Camp. The Loveday Internment Camp ...

Accession Number P11187.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital file TIFF
Maker Hercksen, Heinz Georg
Place made Australia: South Australia, Loveday Group Camps
Date made c 1944-1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

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 internees who produced goods and cultivated crops for the Australian war effort. Loveday Internment Camp closed in December 1946.