Medical vehicles

[Mike K]

Cliff

How many miles per gallon do those carts do ?

The Hay pic: would have been the POW internment camp there I would imagine.

Years ago the MV club here went on a trip to look over the Murchison WW2 POW camp in central Victoria ...it was interesting seeing the remains of it all hidden away in the bush ... Odd sights, like the elaborate stone memorial built by German POWs , looking strange sitting by itself in a lonely paddock . And the fancy entrance gates looking totally out of place in a isolated bush setting .We had a tour laid on by a local club member , the Cooler is still there , where they locked up the ' bad boys '. The Kormoran survivors were interned there too and and least one returned to live in the district after the war . Apart from the cooler , there was only one original building still intact ,complete with barbed wire surounds . We had contemporary pics to compare it all . Examples of the large old gum trees were still standing and we matched the scenes from the WW2 photos as if it was 1942 again, the trees matched up perfectly . Eerie feeling overall.

Mike

[Mike K]

This is the stone memorial we saw back in 1981 . This WW2 pic from AWM.

The cross had been removed and there was no evidence of the fence , it would still be there today . The land is privately owned and unfortunately vandals have got in over the years and destroyed or defaced other stonework built by the POW's. We looked at an Italian POW stone memorial that had recently been damaged by some moron . The dates had us confused until I pointed out that the FASCIST REGIME in Italy had their own calender beginning with year 1 , in the 1920's .There were intact concrete pillboxes still ready for use , the prisoners garden beds and roadways were still evident too. The location is a few miles of the main Hwy at Murchison.

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Physical description: Black & white
Summary: MURCHISON, AUSTRALIA. 1943-01. A MEMORIAL TO FALLEN COMRADES ERECTED BY GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR INTERNED IN THE CAMPS CONTROLLED BY NO. 13 PRISONER OF WAR GROUP.