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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.

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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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By Laura Mecca, Magica Fossati



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