Camp 10 - Loveday Internment Camp, located near Barmera in the Riverland district of South Australia

CAMP 10 - LOVEDAY INTERNMENT CAMP
LOCATED NEAR BARMERA
IN THE RIVERLAND DISTRICT OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
DURING WW2

visits since 20 January 2001

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-Iran to Loveday Camp 10.

INTERNMENT CAMPS AT LOVEDAY

Camp 9

Camp 14

WOOD CAMPS AT LOVEDAY

Katarapko

Moorook West

Woolenook

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I'd like to thank Dennis Whiley for his assistance with this home page.