Caricatures of various staff members at the Filing Room at the Repatriation General Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, and one of Ted Anderson, Loveday, 1946.

John Treloar was educated at Prince Alfred College, and was skilled at art, music and sport. After serving in the Middle East, during World War I he became a farmer near Balaklava. When World War II was declared he re-enlisted and was posted to Loveday Internment Camp in South Australia, doing general staff duties. He spent his leisure hours sketching staff and cartoons of everyday life in camp. He stayed in the Army after 1945 and worked in Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital in Victoria. Treloar was a skilled cartoonist and had some of his work published in Smith's Weekly.

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Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital: Overview and history