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Activities of Australian Women's Army Service in Lae New Guinea.
Film
Maker: Wood, Frederick Sydney
Some 400 girls of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) arrived in Lae in May 1945. Their job was to release men for service in operational areas. Scenes show girls at work as typists, clerks, dr...F07411
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Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS, Northern Territory)
Private Record
NOMINAL ROLL OF AWAS PERSONNEL SERVING IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY FROM 1942 TO 1946. RANKS AND NUMBERS GIVENPR85/123
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AWAS bend for victory (News From Home. No. 52)
Film
AWAS demonstrate physical training. The exercises were especially designed for women.F00746
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1. AWAS take a rise out of Jack Davey 2. Giant Canadian spruce trees for Mosquito Bombers 3. Crisis in Parliament - Curtin speaks. (News From Home. No 43)
Film
Maker: Cinesound
1. (2 min 49 sec) Jack Davey conducts a quiz session for AWAS (Movietone) 2. (1 min) Canadian spruce trees are felled to make Mosquito aircraft (Movietone) 3. (2 min 14 sec) Prime Minister Curtin spea...F00738
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Boyd, Beryl `Betsy' Irving (Driver, b.1916)
Private Record
Maker: Leemon, Beryl Irving (Betsy)
NOMINAL ROLL OF AWAS WHO SERVED IN 2 AUST AMBULANCE CAR COY, 1942-1946. "ONE DRIVERS RECOLLECTIONS", AN ACCOUNT OF DRIVING DUTIES IN SYDNEY AND RURAL NSWPR84/236
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Civilising Forces: Class, Gender and the Australian Women's Army Service 1941-1947
Published Collection
Maker: Evans Appleyard, Christine
Master of Research Thesis in Historical Research completed September 2019 at the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London by Christine Evans Appleyard. From the...AWM2019.1271.1
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Crane, Lucy Dorothea (Captain, b: 1914)
Manuscript
Maker: Crane, Lucy Dorothea
Manuscript titled `What was it like to experience the Second World War?', recollects training and service in Melbourne and Enoggera with AWAS. Also describes period at Lae, New Guinea, mentioning an e...MSS1614
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Dalton, Enid M (E M Herring) (Australian Women's Army Service)
Manuscript
Maker: Dalton, Enid M
TYPESCRIPT ENTITLED "THEY WANTED TO BE NIGHTINGALES", WHICH FORMS THE CORE OF A BOOK LATER PUBLISHED UNDER THE SAME NAME. CONTAINS AN ACCOUNT OF THE PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF THE AUTHOR AND OTHER WOMEN ...MSS0642
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Drury, Marianne Florence (Private, b.1916 - d.2010)
Private Record
Maker: Drury, Marianne Florence
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VF388102 Private Marianne Florence Drury, 2nd Signal Training Battalion, Australian Women’s Army Service, Australia, 1942. This collection consi...PR05188
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Glen Alvie Remembers
Manuscript
Maker: Glen Alvie Recreation Reserve Committee
'Glen Alvie Remembers', a manuscript based on research into 28 former students of Glen Alvie State School who served in the First World War and 31 men and 3 women who enlisted form Glen Alvie for Worl...MSS2004
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Head study of a girl
Art
Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a portrait of an unidentified member of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS), Melbourne, Victoria.ART21177
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Humburg, Evelyn Jean (Sergeant, b.1920)
Private Record
Maker: Humburg, Evelyn Jean
Collection relating to the Second Word War of QF267017 Sergeant Evelyn Jean Humburg, Australian Women's Army Service [AWAS]. Collection consists of a scrapbook kept by Sgt Humburg during her time ser...PR85/259
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Interview with Jack Legge (Keen as mustard)
Film
Jack Legge describes experiences with the Chemical Warfare Research and Experimental Section and the Mustard Gas trials during the 1939-1945 war.F03555
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Interview with Jean Scott (When the war came to Australia).
Film
Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Jean Scott was a member of the Australian Women's Land Army, (AWLA) which was formed to do the manual labour on farms, in place of the men who had gone to war. There were 6000 AWLA girls in the Co...F04036
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Interview with Joy Boehm (When the war came to Australia).
Film
Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Boehm describes school-life- patriotic, the national anthem, etc. She was a secretary, signed up and joined the Women's Army Service. Her fiance was in Singapore in the Straits Volunteer forces, t...F04058
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Interview with June Stone (When the war came to Australia)
Film
Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Stone joined the Women's Auxilary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) in September 1941 aged 19, as her contribution to the war effort. She discusses her air force training in the "Rookies" course, from ...F04045
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Interview with Thelma Long (When the war came to Australia)
Film
Maker: Look Film Productions Pty Ltd Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Thelma Long visited Germany in 1938 as a team member of the Australian Women's Tennis Team and describes her experiences. As part of the war effort, she joined the Red Cross as a transport driver ...F04037
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In which we serve...
Art
Maker: Australian Womens Army Service Association
Australian Women's Army Service and Ausralian Army Medical Women's Service recruitment poster depicting a women in the Australian army uniform, and the soldiers in combat in the background wearing bro...ARTV05256
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Johnstone, Jean (b.1924)
Private Record
Maker: Johnstone, Jean
Handwritten memoir of Johnstone's experiences with the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS), in training camp in Victoria.PR01517
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Join me in the Army; AWAS or AAMWS
Art
Maker: Australian Women's Army Service Association
Australian Women's Army Service recruitment poster for the AWAS and AAMWS.ARTV05219