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LOCATION
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Address First Peoples of the River Yeo Road LOVEDAY
Locality
Accuracy H - high level confidence
Council Area Berri Barmera Council
Polygon Type P - parcel (from DCDB)
DESCRIPTION
Details (Known As) Camp 10 Detention Cell Block, Loveday Internment Camp Complex
Registered Name Camp 10 Detention Cell Block, Loveday Internment Camp Complex
Significance The Loveday Internment Camp Complex is rare as it is the only purpose-built internment facility in South Australia and demonstrates a way of life, social custom and land use that is of exceptional historical interest. The Camp 10 Cell Block is an integral component of the Camp Complex and one of only three cell blocks remaining at Loveday. It demonstrates important aspects of South Australia's role in the detention of civilian internees and prisoners of war (POWs) during the Second World War, and in particular, the experience of additional levels of imprisonment. POWs were imprisoned in the detention cell block as punishment for a variety of 'illegal' activities, including failed escape attempts, espionage, physical violence and acts of civil disobedience. Imprisoned POWs included members of a small Nazi 'elite' who tried to gain control over the other detainees in early 1943. The walls inside some cells are inscribed with names of some of the POWs incarcerated in that cell, and in some instances dates of and reason for incarceration, while other walls have dashes or crosses. One cell also bears the names of three privates from the 25/33 Garrison Battalion who were court martialled in August and September 1942.
Subject Index Law and enforcement - Prisoner of War Camp
Class State
STATUS
Status Code REG - Confirmed as a State Heritage Place in the SA Heritage Register
Status Date 26-MAY-2022
REFERENCE
LGA Berri Barmera
State Heritage ID 26506
Heritage Number 28121
SECTION 16 INFORMATION
Section 16 a - it demonstrates important aspects of the evolution or pattern of the State's history
b - it has rare, uncommon or endangered qualities that are of cultural significance
PLAN PARCEL & TITLE
As listed in the SA Heritage Register
Plan Parcel & Title Information CT 5958/949 D69443 A8

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