CAMP 10 - LOVEDAY INTERNMENT CAMP
LOCATED NEAR BARMERA
IN THE RIVERLAND DISTRICT OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
DURING WW2
During WW2 there were a number of Internment camps located in the Riverland District of South Australia near Barmera which is 12 kms south west of Renmark. There were 3 main camps and three wood camps.
Camp 10 - Loveday Internment Camp comprised Camp HQ and 39 buildings and a compound of rectangular in shape including a hospital the compound was able to hold 1000 persons first Italian prisoner arrived 12 August 1941
Reinhold Adler has published a book Das war nicht nur "Karneval im August" on a Nazi internment camp at Biberach in South Germany, which was used for British nationals and Channel Islanders from Guernsey, Jersey and Sark who were interned as a reprisal for deporting German nationals ex-Persia (Iran) to Loveday Camp 10.
Illustration:- Johann Friedrich Bambach
Camp 10 Loveday 1942
Illustration:- Johann Friedrich Bambach
Cafehouse Camp 10 Loveday December 1943
Illustration:- Johann Friedrich Bambach
Christmas Eve in Camp Loveday
Illustration:- Johann Friedrich Bambach
Hut 43 in November 1943
Illustration:- Johann Friedrich Bambach
Johann Friedrich Bambach's Bunk
INTERNMENT CAMPS AT LOVEDAY
WOOD CAMPS AT LOVEDAY
German Civilian Expatriates of Persia and WWII
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I'd like to thank Dennis Whiley and Pedram Khosronejad for their assistance with this web page.
I'd like to thank Ralph Guilor, grandson of Johann Friedrich Bambach, who was one of the detainees at Camp 10 Loveday during WWII.
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