 Starting from March 1943, POWs from South Africa and New Zealand (around 500 and 100 respectively) were also assigned to Monigo in a subsection called camp 103.Prisoners came from a transit camp in Benghazi, after being captured during the Fall of Tobruk.The camp remained active until the Armistice of Cassabile between the Kingdom of Italy and the Allies on September 8, 1943.