Lives

Lt Colonel George Bull. Photograph courtesy Geoff Bull. Lt Colonel George Bull, born in Willowie in 1898, was a veteran of World War 1, a Soldier Settler at Willowie and…

Luigi Bortolotti at the time of his return to Australia in 1948. Luigi Bortolotti was a latecomer to Loveday, and he was a POW, not a civilian internee. Bortolotti was…

Fernand Charles Bentivoglio. Photo courtesy Ilma Martinuzzi O’Brien. Fernand Bentivoglio was Professor of Languages at the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music in Sydney when he was arrested on…

Loveday, South Australia. 16 March 1943. Group of German internees apprehended in Australia now interned at No. 14 (10?) Prisoner of War and Internee Group. Back row, left row right:…

Extract from the Detention Order for Vassily Prootkovsky, not questioning his loyalty to Britain but suggesting that he ‘is fanatically anti-Communist, and to a large extent pro-Fascist’. NAA: MP508/1, 255/742/557.…

Oreste Magnanini with wife Quintilia and daughter Teresa in Innisfail. Photo courtesy Ilma Martinuzzi O’Brien. Oreste Magnanini was born in 1909 into a large family in Capoliveri on the island…

Loveday, South Australia. 16 March 1943. Group of German internees at Loveday. Back row, left row right: Butscher; R36615 Paul von Kurtz; R36660 Heinrich Naumann; R36725 Hermann Sucker; R36607 Ernst…

Page from Tamakichi Koike’s Certificate of Registration of Alien, issued in July 1942 and showing his addresses in Cairns after his release from Loveday. NAA: BP25/1, KOIKE T JAPANESE. KOIKE…

Cover of Don Laidlaw’s memoirs, Anecdotes of a Japanese Translator. Donald Laidlaw was born in Adelaide in 1923. In the Second World War he joined the Intelligence Corps, working as…

Service and Casualty Form of Reinhard Waldsachs, who was one of the ‘Dunera boys’, that is, the Jewish refugees who arrived in Australia aboard the Dunera in September 1939. Waldsax…