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Australian War Memorial ID 052460 Photo by James Tait; TATURA, VIC. 1943-06-15. JAPANESE INTERNEES OF NO. 4 CAMP, TATURA INTERNMENT GROUP, LINE UP FOR DENTAL PARADE, AT NO. 1 CAMP, TATURA INTERNMENT GROUP. LEFT TO RIGHT:- IJ51698 KURIMOTO; IJ50484 KWIK TIAUW TLIEN;UIJ50439 ANG TOO LAM; IJ50365 SIA TING TJIOE; IJF50651 SATA MASUNO; IJ50504 SAI YO; IJF51803 OSHIRO YOSHI; IJ50298 TAN SWIE PAN; CJF19038 GOTO KIMIKO; CJ18731 MURAYAMA SHIMPEI; LIF50471 SHU GIOK HOEN; QJF16237 YUKAWA CHIE; IJF50455 SAI KAKU SI CHIN KAN; IJF50537 ONG TJOEN HWA.

Australian War Memorial ID 123079 Photo by Hedley Keith Cullen; BARMERA, SA 1944-04. NO. 9 CAMP NURSERY, LOVEDAY INTERNMENT GROUP. TWO JAPANESE INTERNEES ON A “HOLLAND” CELERY PLANTER BEING TOWED BY TRACTOR. THEY ARE PLANTING GUAYULE SEEDLINGS THEY HAD RAISED FOR TRIALS TO INVESTIGATE THE PLANT’S USE AS AN ALTERNATIVE SOURCE OF NATURAL RUBBER. THE AMERICAN MADE MACHINE GAVE A GOOD MEASURE OF SUCCESS IF THE OPERATORS WORKED IN PAIRS. ONE SELECTED THE SEEDLINGS FROM A BOX AND HANDED IT TO HIS PARTNER WHO PLACED THEM BETWEEN RUBBER GUIDING “FINGERS”. THESE CONVEYED THEM IN AN UPRIGHT POSITION TO THE FURROW WHERE THEY WHERE RELEASED AND PRESSED IN FIRMLY BY TWO WHEELS SET ON AN ANGLE.

Australian War Memorial ID 123154 Photo by Hedley Keith Cullen; BARMERA, SA 1944-11. NO. 9 GARDENS, LOVEDAY INTERNMENT GROUP. PYRETHRUM CROPS WERE PLANTED IN 1943-01 AND 1943-02 AFTER SUPPLIES OF PYRETHRIN (AN IMPORTANT INSECTICIDE) FROM KENYA BECAME UNCERTAIN. THESE INITIAL ATTEMPTS USING SEED FROM KENYA FAILED BUT CROPS PLANTED IN 1943-03 WERE SUCCESSFUL DESPITE PROBLEMS CAUSED BY DROUGHT AND SAND DRIFTS. THE FIRST CONSIGNMENT OF FLOWERS WAS SENT FOR PROCESSING IN 1944-06 WITH FURTHER BALES SENT REGULARLY THEREAFTER. S1401 SERGEANT H. B. WESCOMBE, A PROJECT SUPERVISOR, REMOVING FLOWER HEADS AS A JAPANESE INTERNEE APPROACHES WITH MORE BLOOMS.

Australian War Memorial ID 030188/06 Photo by Colin Thomas Halmarick ; Tatura, Australia. 13 February 1943. Group of Italian internees from overseas now interned at Tatura Internment Camp. Back row, left to right: S. Ferrarin; A. Alonzi; G. Baldelli; E. Galante; G. Felloni; Mertes. Front row: G. Crolla; G. Pelosi; G. Mocogni; P. Mocogni.

Australian War Memorial ID 030246/14 Photo by Ronald Leslie Stewart ; Tatura, Australia. 10 March 1945. A class of German school children whose parents are interned at No. 3 Camp, Tatura Internment Group, photographed outside the school building in the Camp. Shown here are pupils in Class III: Gabriele Drude; Elselore Ortel; Nelly Dreher; Hannelore Dyck; Irene Wied; Hilde Bergmann; Ruth Linsenmeier; Anne Scheerle; Heidi Schnerring; Luise Kubler; Helga Palmer; Gretel Weiss; Friedrike Fuchs; Rosemarie Weigold; Inge Steller.