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13 Australian Detention Barrack

Details:

Title

13 Australian Detention Barrack,

Collection

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

Date

0000-00-00,

Location

Brock's Creek,

Nation of service

Australia,

Service

Army,

Service branch

Provost,

Unit

13 Australian Detention Barrack,

Date arrived in NT

1942-03-31,

Date left the NT

1945-09-30,

History

Established as the 13 Australian Detention Barracks at Brock's Creek in 1942. The barracks accommodated a maximum of 100 prisoners guarded by 20 military police. The barracks remained in operation until late 1945 and was reoccupied by civilian police in 1946.,

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, Military police, MP, Prisons, Provosts, 13 Australian Detention Barrack,

File type

image/tiff,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Library & Archives NT,

License

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

Related links

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/28391 [PictureNT : PH0346/0086, Barracks, C. W. MacPherson Collection], http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=31892 [13 Australian Detention Barrack],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847596,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847952