Keilor, Vic. 1944-08. Members of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) and Australian Army ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Melbourne, Keilor
Accession Number 100532
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film original acetate
Maker Baker, G H
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Keilor, Vic. 1944-08. Members of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) and Australian Army Medical Womens Service (AAMWS) participate in a debate at the Land Headquarters Army Education School for Women's Services. Debates are part of four weeks instruction course, after which trainees return to their units as part-time Education Officers. Left to right: Private Billie Bolton AAMWS; Signalwoman Millie McGrath AWAS; Miss A. Burchmore, YWCA representative stationed among Army service women in Bathurst, NSW; Lance Corporal Desmonde Downing AAMWS; Private A. Palmer AAMWS, and Sergeant E. Heither AWAS.