When Italian POWs were sent to Australia

Laura Mecca, former director of the Italian Historical Society, remembers the story of a diary by an Italian soldier, brought to Australia by an Australian man, and the events that brought several Italians down under as prisoners of war.

Italian POWs at the back of their living quarters on the Irvine and Bartlett banana plantations at Middle Pocket Source: courtesy of Italian Historical Society

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