Postcards from Torrens Island |
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| Title : | Postcards from Torrens Island |
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| Creator : | Tilley, Harold | ||
| Source : | D 7340(L) | ||
| Date of creation : | ca.1915 | ||
| Format : | Manuscript | ||
| Dimensions : | 90 x 140 mm | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Description : |
Two postcards made by an interned German prisoner of war on Torrens Island in ca.1915, with short letters to two nieces written by Harold Tilley. The design of each card is a raised floral pattern in watercolour. The postcards were used by Harold Tilley, who was stationed on Torrens Island with the 74th Regiment guarding prisoners of war, to send to his two nieces Jessie and 'Olly' (Olive) Buller of Aldgate Valley, Aldgate. |
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| Related names : | Torrens Island Internment Camp (S. Aust.) |
| Period : | 1914-1918 |
| Place : | Torrens Island |
| Region : | Adelaide metropolitan area |
| Further reading : | Fischer, Gerhard. Enemy aliens: internment and the homefront experience in Australia, 1914-1920, St. Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, 1989 Chpt. 10: State camps Holmes, Elisa. 'The attitudes towards South Australians of German descent during World War I', Cabbages and kings: selected essays in history and Australian studies, vol. 22 (1993), pp. 3-17 Index to aliens 1914-1918 [microform] / compiled by Helen D. Harris. Forest Hill, Vic.: Harriland Press, 2003] Paech, David O. Persecution, detention and internment of Lutherans (in South Australia) in two world wars : a dark spot in Australia's century of federation, [Klemzig, S. Aust. : David O. Paech], 2001 |
| Internet links : | German history in South Australia [German Club, SA] Manning Index of South Australian history: World War One: Germans in Australia South Australians at war: Prisoners of war Wartime internment camps in Australia [National Archives of Australia] |
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