Housewife : Corporal G Easterbrook, 6 Service Flying Training School, RAAF

Khaki cotton housewife roll. Inside the roll is a length of blue striped cotton sewn into columns. Each column holds a skein of different coloured wool and cotton. The ends of the wool are tucked into a pocket at the bottom of the roll. The pocket also contains several buttons, more cotton thread and a thimble. A woollen scrap is sewn to the outside of the pocket and has three needles threaded through it. The number '26093' is written on both sides of the roll. When rolled the housewife is held shut with two lengths of black cotton tape.

Carried by 26093 Corporal George Easterbrook, a South Australian born in Adelaide on 18 March 1919. He enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force on his twenty first birthday in 1940 and initially served as a Fitter 2A in the repair shop at Laverton Air Force base. He then moved to Geelong to work in the Aircraft Assembly plant building Fairy aircraft shipped from England and was then posted to Mallala Flying Training School where he was in charge of the ground staff during night flying training as well as servicing and refueling between flights. He was discharged on 29 October 1945, his last unit listed as 6 Service Flying Training School at Tamworth, NSW.