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Photo of Marizo Yanai at work in New Caledonia. Source: SBS / New Caledonia Archives Morizo Yanai was born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1889. He migrated in 1910 to New…

Declaration made by Sonobe to the Department of External Affairs that he had five children in the New Hebrides. NAA: A1066 IC45/1/11/5 Internees in Australia – Japanese – Repatriation. Nonetheless,…

Kikujiro Nishimori. Photo: Archives de Nouvelle Calédonie: 34W30 Kikujiro Nishimori was born in Okayama Prefecture in 1891. He migrated to New Caledonia in 1914, where he worked as a tailor.…

Yashiro Nakano: Archives de Nouvelle Calédonie: 34W29 Yashiro Nakano was born in Fukuoka Prefecture in March 1893 and migrated to New Caledonia in 1914, where he worked as a taxi…

Official record of Heijiro Murakami’s internment as an ‘enemy alien’ in December 1941, just after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. NAA: MP1103/2 MJ18500 Prisoner of War/Internee; Murakami, Heijiro; Year of…

Many of the guards who worked at Loveday had served in the AIF in the First World War. Others, like Don Wing, enlisted as young men in the Second World…

Gerhard Warschauer in Sydney shortly before the outbreak of war and his internment. Courtesy Elizabeth Warschauer. Gerhard Warschauer was born in 1908 Tremessen in what was then Germany; it is…

Hermann Thumm in 1948. NAA: D4878, THUMM Hermann After occupation by the Red Army in 1921, the town was renamed Luxemburg in honour of the communist Rosa Luxemburg. To escape…

Friedrich Jordan with wife and children in Collinswood in Adelaide before the war. Courtesy Rex Jordan. Friedrich (Frederick) Hermann Jordan was born in Leipzig in 1901. In 1927 he jumped…

Edwin Theyer Dean’s official photograph when he was mobilised for full-time duty in August 1940. NAA: B884, S812, DEAN EDWIN THEYER: Service Number – S812 : Date of birth –…