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

Camp 9

Camp 14

WOOD CAMPS AT LOVEDAY

Katarapko

Moorook West

Woolenook

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.

"Australia @ War" WWII Research Products

This page first produced 20 January 2001

This page last updated 04 July 2020