[1] The camp was divided into four compounds and held Axis prisoners from various battlefields around the world, including Papua New Guinea, the Pacific, the Middle East and North Africa.
The camp guard was provided by members of 25/33 Garrison Battalion, a militia unit of the Australian Army.
Its most famous inmate was Oskar Speck, a German kayaker who paddled from Germany to New Guinea in the 1930s.
[2][3] In September 1939, he was detained as an enemy alien on Thursday Island and was interred in Brisbane, then in Tatura, but after escaping and being recaptured in 1943, he was sent to Camp 14.
[2][4] Another well-known internee was Italian anti-fascist activist Francesco Fantin who was killed in 1942 by pro-fascist inmates.