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Italian POWs in Australia: Why the Italian POWs were not freed at once
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Italian POWs in Australia. Questo blog in italiano. Why the Italian POWs were not freed at once. As soon as Italy signed the armistice, the Australians asked for more Italian POWs to put them to work. They transferred from India as many as they could. I just discovered that in October/November 1943, the Americans told the British that, as Italy was a cobelligerent, the Italian soldiers captured while Italy was allied with Germany should no longer be considered POWs. I can’t help it but speculate th...
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Italian POWs in Australia: Number of Returning POWs
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Italian POWs in Australia. Questo blog in italiano. Number of Returning POWs. I finally managed to compare the list of 18,420 Italian POWs with the list of 203,813 people who arrived in Australia via Fremantle (WA) or transited there on their way to one of the Eastern ports. I found 554 entries with matching family and given names. I had actually expected a higher number of matches. Desmond O’Connor. Which you can read online. Or download in PDF format. The CLT, for those who are not familiar with it, st...
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Italian POWs in Australia: Most returning POWs came from the South
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Italian POWs in Australia. Questo blog in italiano. Most returning POWs came from the South. I started adding to the 554 records of Italian POWs who returned to Australia some of the information contained in their Service and Casualty Form (the green forms of which you see an example in italianpow.info/2013/02/passengers-arrivals.html. After processing about 21% of the 554 records, I couldn’t resist the temptation to start making some statistics. Next, I checked where they came from. For two of them,...
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Italian POWs in Australia: March 2013
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Italian POWs in Australia. Questo blog in italiano. Why the Italian POWs were not freed at once. As soon as Italy signed the armistice, the Australians asked for more Italian POWs to put them to work. They transferred from India as many as they could. I just discovered that in October/November 1943, the Americans told the British that, as Italy was a cobelligerent, the Italian soldiers captured while Italy was allied with Germany should no longer be considered POWs. I can’t help it but speculate th...
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Italian POWs in Australia: About this blog
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Italian POWs in Australia. Questo blog in italiano. On 10 June 1940, Italy entered the Second World War at the side of Germany. During the course of the War, Great Britain and their allies captured in Ethiopia and North Africa approximately 400,000 Italian troops, who were sent to POW camps all over the world, including Australia. In 1945, when war in Europe was over and Italy had been on the side of the allies for over for one and a half years, the Australian government, instead of returning the Italian...
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Italian POWs in Australia: February 2013
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Italian POWs in Australia. Questo blog in italiano. Most returning POWs came from the South. I started adding to the 554 records of Italian POWs who returned to Australia some of the information contained in their Service and Casualty Form (the green forms of which you see an example in italianpow.info/2013/02/passengers-arrivals.html. After processing about 21% of the 554 records, I couldn’t resist the temptation to start making some statistics. Next, I checked where they came from. For two of them,...
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Italian POWs in Australia: Passengers Arrivals
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Italian POWs in Australia. Questo blog in italiano. The National Archives of Australia (NAA) have made available online the list of passengers arriving by ship in Fremantle and other WA ports between 1921 and 1949, or arriving at Perth airport between 1944 and 1949. The lists, consisting of 879,900 names, is part of the data included in the series K269. Unfortunately, the NAA ran out of funding before digitising the whole series. That’s why the list stops in January 1950. By Peter Plowman, Rosenberg Publ...
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Italian POWs in Australia: Why the POWs must work
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Italian POWs in Australia. Questo blog in italiano. Why the POWs must work. I found an article in the National Archives of Australia that I would like to share. I clipped some parts of it. If you want to read it in full, go to the Archives search page. Set the Series number. Field to A373, set Item control symbol. To 6221, and click on Search. When the item page comes up, click on view digital copy. Go to page 160, and select Enlarge. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Current time in Canberra.
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Italian POWs in Australia: How many Italian prisoners, really?
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Italian POWs in Australia. Questo blog in italiano. How many Italian prisoners, really? The Australian War Memorial holds the document AWM 54, Written records [1939-1945], 780/1/6, Report on the Directorate of Prisoners of War and internees at Army Headquarters, Melbourne, 1939-1951. 94), 1989, 195–220, on page 204, and Desmond O’Connor in "From Tobruk to Clare : the experiences of the Italian prisoner of war Luigi Bortolotti 1941-1946". Fulgor. The problem with that figure is that if you read the text o...
