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Some 18,400 Italian prisoners of war (out of 50,000 requested by the Australian Government, to be employed as farm labourers) were transported from India to Australia from 1943. Some of the [Italian?] POWs in India were shipped to South Africa to help build the railway there.<ref>[http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/08/19/italian-pows-helped-grow-australia Italian POWs helped grow Australia] 26 August 2013 SBS News [Special Broadcasting Service] Television and Radio, Australia, quoting Gianfranco Cresciani, author of ''The Italians in Australia''</ref><ref>Francesco Barbera was an Italian POW captured in North Africa in 1941, who spent a few years In India. He was sent to Australia in 1943 where he spent time in POW camps in Liverpool, Cowra, Tumut and St Ives, now a suburb of Sydney. Article in [http://newslocal.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/showlink.aspx?bookmarkid=HJLFMSXUDVY5&preview=magnifier&linkid=72862f0e-f12b-4af6-966c-fce95321c288&pdaffid=flTgD0N%2bsncNlRju4zoiMw%3d%3d ''North Shore Times'' 25 April 2014, page 11]</ref>
*Group I – [[Bangalore]]: Camps 1 to 8 - Italian prisoners. There were Camps at Jakkur, Hebbal and Jalahalli.<ref>[https://aturquoisecloud.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/pensioners-paradise-or-pow-camp/ Pensioner’s Paradise or POW Camp ?] by Aliyeh Rizvi, July 7, 2011</ref>
*Group II – Bhopal: Camps 9 to 16 – Italian prisoners. Camp 16 was a hospital. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_Bairagarh Bhopal Bairagarh] (Wikipedia)
*Group III – Ramgarh: Camps 17 to 20 – German Civil Internees and later Italian prisoners. Had a punishment camp for difficult Italian POWs Ramgarh was near [[Hazaribagh]]. It was used as a POW camp up to May 1942 when the POWs were moved out and the United States Chinese Training Command was established there.
