Dinner dress : Miss N S Eglinton, Voluntary Aid Detachment

Blue cesarine dinner dress with long sleeves and a side opening secured by four press studs and a hook and eye. Four plastic buttons open the dress to the waist. A Red Cross badge is sewn on the left breast pocket. Inverted box pleats are sewn on the front of the bodice and extend midway down the skirt. An inverted pleat is sewn into the back for ease of wear. There are two belt loops on either side of the waist and the shoulders are padded.

Worn by SFX15101 Private Nancy Stewart Eglinton. Eglinton was born in Adelaide, South Australia in January 1918 and enlisted in the Voluntary Aid Detachment on 10 November 1941. In 1942 Eglinton, with the majority of VADs, was transferred to the newly formed Australian Army Medical Women's Service. During the war she served in Northern Queensland, and possibly in New Guinea towards the end of the war. She served with 128 Australian General Hospital (AGH), 2/6 AGH and when discharged on 26 April 1946 she was serving with 101 AGH, based in Northfield, Adelaide. At the end of war she met and later married S3509 Colin Malcolm McEachern, a telegraphist from the Royal Australian Navy who served as a coast watcher during the war. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal during his service in HMAS Parkes.