Lives

Miyakatsu Koike in the Dutch East Indies before the war. Courtesy the Koike family. Miyakatsu Koike was an employee of the Surabaya branch of the Yokohama Specie Bank (located in…

Service and Casualty Form of James Joseph Hamabata, a cook born in Onslow, Western Australia. It shows he spent time working in the wood-cutting camp at Woolenook. He was not…

The Service and Casualty Form of Michael Glas, showing his movements after arrival in Australia aboard the Dunera. NAA: MP1103/1, E35046 Prisoner of War/Internee: Glas, Michael; Date of birth –…

Alfred Giles speaking at the Peace Service in Loveday in 1945. Courtesy Mike Ladd The man standing on stage is Alfred Edward Giles, who was a chaplain at Loveday with…

Alfred Freund-Zinnbauer after the war. He used the motor-bike with its special tray to collect for his mission work, adopting the slogan, ‘Your junk is my delight.’ Lutheran Archives. Alfred…

Cover of the 1988 pamphlet – Emigrazione Anarchica Italiana in Australia by Moreno Marchi featuring a photo of Fantin on the Cover. Francesco Fantin was an anarchist. Born in San…

Letter from Salvatore Carluccio to Frances Harvie, March 1946. State Library of South Australia, PRG 596/7. Salvatore Carluccio, a farmer from Lecce in Italy, was not a civilian internee but…

Giuseppe Cantamessa. Courtesy Ilma Martinuzzi O’Brien. Giuseppe Cantamessa of Ingham, who came to Australian from Piedmont in 1907, was naturalised in 1913 and had lived continuously in Australia for 33…

Leonard George Battams (left) with other guards at Loveday internment camp. Courtesy Samantha Battams. Leonard George Battams came from a family that served in the Australian army, with his grandfather,…

Photo of Fritz Bambach. Courtesy Ralph Guilor Johann Friedrich (or simply Fritz) Bambach was born in Bensheim in Germany in 1883. With the deaths of his parents when he was…