Studio portrait of Molly Murray-Prior wearing the uniform of the Women’s Emergency Signalling ...

Place Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney
Accession Number P01262.020
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
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 Molly Murray-Prior wearing the uniform of the Women’s Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC). WR/56 Sylvia Mary (Molly) Murray-Prior from Melbourne, Victoria served in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) from 1 October 1942 until 18 December 1945 when she finished her service as a Petty Officer Wran Telegraphist. 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.