Studio portrait of Marian Stevens wearing the uniform of the Women’s Emergency Signalling Corps ...

Place Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney
Accession Number P01262.210
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made 1939
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of Marian Stevens wearing the uniform of the Women’s Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC). WR/5 Marian Stevens from Sydney, NSW served in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) from 28 April 1941 until 30 September 1955 when she finished her service as a Second Officer (Lieutenant equivalent). 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.