Group portrait of the first members of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and Women’s Royal ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Australian Capital Territory, HMAS Harman
Accession Number P01132.009
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Australian Capital Territory, Canberra
Date made February 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of the first members of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) from the Naval Wireless/Transmitting Station, Canberra (to be later commissioned on 1 July 1943 as HMAS Harman). These servicemen and women transferred in late 1942 to the nearby Molonglo Receiving Station opened to carry traffic from Whitehall, Haliflax and Bombay Fort. Identified from left to right, back row (standing): Leading Telegraphists Tich Philips and Jock Campbell, Wran Telegraphists WR86 Joyce Helen Barton and WR130 Marie Norma McKenna; Wran Cooks WR1586 Gloria Elizabeth ‘Poppy’ Ashdown and WR171 Lilian Patricia ‘Pat’ Abbott; Wran Teleprinter Operator WR112 Margaret Florence Shergold; Leading Wran Telegraphist WR7 Daphne Mary Wright; Telegraphist B/2373 Frederick John ‘Fred’ Lubach; Leading Telegraphist S/3807 John Howard ‘Jack’ Gore.
Middle row (sitting): Wran Telegraphist WR167 Joyce Osborn; Wran Teleprinter Operator WR105 Coras Irene Allen; Wran Telegraphist WR89 Edna May Thomas; Leading Wran Telegraphist WR46 Joan Ellen Dixon; Wran Teleprinter Operators WR110 Phyllis May ‘Phil’ McDonald and WR109 Dorothy Margaret ‘Dot’ Macguire; Wran Telegrapist WR47 Mary Elizabeth ‘Molly’ Cuthbert; Leading Wran Telegraphist WR11 Sylvia Violette ‘Billie’ Thompson.
Front row: Petty Officer Telegraphists 17213 George Wallis Allen and D/JX160332 Thomas Frederick ‘Tom’ Lloyd.