Territory Stories

10 Employment Company

Details:

Title

10 Employment Company,

Collection

WWII Military Units, HistoryNT, Second World War, 1939-1945,

Date

0000-00-00,

Location

Mt. Isa,

Nation of service

Australia,

Service

Army,

Unit

10 Employment Company,

Alternative unit name

10 Labour Company,

Date arrived in NT

1943-11-01,

History

Formed at Keswick, South Australia, in 30 June 1943. The Unit included 80 Greek and Indigenous personnel. They worked at the Light Creek Coal Mine in South Australia. In November 1943, 76 Indigenous personnel were moved to the Northern Territory and to Mt Isa, Queensland with 25 Employment Company. The Unit disbanded 14 January 1944,

Notes

Metadata: Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0,

Language

English,

Subject

Second World War, 1939-1945, Australia, Army, Barclay construction, Highway maintenance, Road building, Roads, 10 Labour Company, 10 Employment Company,

File type

image/jpeg,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Australian War Memorial,

License

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/pubic-domain/pdm,

Related links

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C289903 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph 011899, Second World War, 1939-1945], https://trove.nla.gov.au/list/30779 [10 Employment Company or 10 Labour Company],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847557,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847557

Related items

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847916,