Nava, Luigi – Handmade POW newsletter in Italian; annotated
| Place |
Myrtleford Mount Gambier |
| Subject | |
| Category | |
| Author |
Nava, Luigi |
| Creator |
Commonwealth Investigation Service, Central Office |
| Current holder | |
| Series number |
A7919, C101298 |
| Item number |
30715400 |
| Access rights |
Open access |
| Country of origin | |
| Language | |
| Period of reference |
1941 to 1944 |
| Description from source |
Full title: Nava, Luigi (Army) PWI 47287 – Born: Not known – Captured: 22 January 1941, Tobruk Libya – Previously interned: Not known – Arrived Australia: Not known – Interned: Myrtleford, No 5 Camp – Departed: ORMONDE, 26 December 1946, for Italy – L’eco del campo’ Number 14 Australia, 19 November 19[–?] [Handmade POW newsletter in Italian; annotated] NAVA – found in luggage when transferring to PWCC V 20 Mildura 1944. This POW camp newsletter entitled ‘L’eco del campo’ was found as an estray and is annotated with the information – It is believed that this prisoner was in number S.5 farm labour camp. S.5 stands for the Prisoner of War Control Centre in Mount Gambier in the south east of South Australia. The camps were No 14a (Italian prisoners), 14b (Japanese) 14c (Japanese), 14d (German and Italian), 9 (Italian) and 10 (Italian) were all part of Loveday Camp at Barmera in South Australia. |
| Physical format |
Newspapers |
| File |
L'eco del campo' newsletter |
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