Lives

Caption: The first page of Hikotaro Wada’s application for appeal in November 1944 at the age of 59. NAA: D1901 W3214, WADA Hikotaro Hikotaro Wada, a laundryman, was born in…

One of the sketches made by Jack Treloar when he worked at Loveday. State Library of South Australia: Treloar, John, 1891-1968. Mixed material 2001. PRG 1286 PART OUTSIZE 7. John…

The Service and Casualty Form of Jack Tolsee, whowing that he was born in 1926 (and thus that he was just 15 years of age when interned) and that the…

P R Stephensen in Sydney circa 1934. Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._R._Stephensen (accessed 1 March 2021). The most prominent of the members of the Australia First Movement to spend time behind bars was…

Photograph of Oskar Speck shortly after his initial detention at Enoggera in Brisbane. NAA: SP908/1, Oskar Walter Speck [German – arrived Saibai, Torres Strait per PIONEER, 20 Sep 1939. Detained…

This painting by Max Ragless shows Japanese civilian internees harvesting the pyrethrum daisy grown at Loveday. From the blossoms is extracted pyrethin, the basic element in insecticides used by the…

Record of Itaro Nakashima in the Loveday Internment Camp internees files, NAA: D1901 N3366NAKASHIMA Itaro Itaro Nakashima was born in Kumamoto Ken in Japan on 20 October 1875 and entered…

Samuel Nakashiba’s application to register as an ‘enemy alien’. As the form indicates, he was born in Cairns. NAA: D1901, N3301 Samuel F.J.NAKASHIBA Samuel Nakashiba had Japanese parents but was…

Certificate Exempting from Dictation Test (CEDT) – Name: Junzo Murakami – Nationality: Japanese – Birthplace: Japan – departed for Japan per TANGO MARU 6 May 1930 returned Brisbane per KAMO…

Loveday civilian internment camp, camp 14 C. Japanese camp leaders with Dr. Morel. July 1944. ICRC Audiovisual Archives V-P-HIST-01877-23A. Georges Guillaume Morel was a delegate of the International Committee of…