Group portrait of four telegraphists of the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS). ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Australian Capital Territory, HMAS Harman
Accession Number P01262.306
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Place made Australia: Australian Capital Territory, HMAS Harman
Date made 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Group portrait of four telegraphists of the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS). Identified from left to right: WR/21 Heather Stella Dunshea (later Leading Wran Telegraphist); WR/9 Ethel Joan Cade (later Petty Officer Wran Telegraphist); WR/16 Dorothy Lorraine (Dot) Johnstone (later Petty Officer Wran Telegraphist); and WR/8 Jess Scott Prain (later First Officer). One in a series of portraits of early members of the WESC, many of whom became WRANS. The album of portraits was compiled by Mrs Florence Violet McKenzie OBE, founder of WESC, which trained Signallers and Telegraphists.