I think he would have been here by now if he was coming.
Which war ? Or something else ? I found some things for you but it's WW1 and WW2.
Wartime internment camps in Australia - – National Archives of Australia
List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Australia - Wikipedia, the ...
I once travelled from Melbourne to Sydney, sitting next to a man who had been the first European citizen to be commissioned as an officer in the Australian Army during WWII. He was sent to a Japanese POW camp at Cowra (in NSW) to take over as commanding officer, and arrived the day after a … Read more