Women's night shift

Place Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Lithgow
Accession Number ART90400
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 26.2 x 32.4 cm. (irreg)
Object type Work on paper
Physical description watercolour over pencil
Maker Hawthorne, Dore
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Lithgow
Date made 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

Six nights of it, fighting sleep; gossip and walkabouts failing to revive after the men have clocked off. Eventually a skeleton staff of rostered males stayed until 7am., when the women and sketeton clocked off together, Small Arms Factory, Lithgow, New South Wales.