Wieland, Anne Russell (b.1919 - d.2002)

Collection relating to the Second World War service of Anne Russell Wieland, Women's National Emergency Legion (WNEL), Brisbane, 1944-1945.

Wallet 1 of 1 - consists of letters, documents, newspaper articles, and a notebook associated with Wieland's service as a WNEL driver and chauffeur working with the United States Naval Supply Depot at Perry Park, Brisbane, between May 1944 and September 1945. The collection includes Wieland's employment agreement with the United States Navy (USN), her identity card and USN vehicle operator's permit, the typed lyrics to a song about the WNEL, clippings of two newspaper articles from 1945 and 1946 concerning the work of the WNEL drivers, and letters from three USN officers commending Weiland on her services. The collection also includes a wallet memo notebook in which Wieland has written the names and wartime addresses of friends and colleagues and has made brief notes on some of her activities and movements. Also with the collection is a letter of recommendation dated 1938 for Wieland's work as a hairdresser, a Christmas postcard to Weiland from a friend serving with the United States forces in Okinawa in 1945, and a ticket to the Ex Prisoners of War Association of Australia reunion dinner in 1973.

Anne Russell Wieland served with the Women's National Emergency Legion (WNEL) as a driver at the United States Naval Supply Depot in Perry Park, Brisbane, from May 1944 to October 1945. In November 1945 she married QX64900 Lieutenant Noel Joseph Lyons, a former prisoner of the Japanese.