Margery Cross, Australian Womens' Army Service, interviewed by Alison Viney Houghton about her experiences as a young person in the Second World War.

Margery Cross, Australian Womens' Army Service (AWAS), interviewed by Alison Viney Houghton for her "The Age of Innocence 1937-1947" oral history project. The interview covers her experiences as a young person living through the Second World War. Topics covered include studying arts (languages and philosphy) at university in the late 1930s; her surgeon father's First World War service and role as DDMS in the Second World War; her decision to join up to the AWAS; her experience with signalling and codes; going into camp at South Yarra; her marriage to VX392 Laurence Hoodley Christie (AKA Laurance Hoadley Christie) in 1939; rationing; entertainment; having a child and leaving the army; her memories of the war being declared; blackout curtains; petrol rationing; making up Red Cross parcels; her mother's work in medicine and as a surgeon in England during the First World War; newsreels; moving to NSW so her husband could work at King's School, Parramatta, after the war; money troubles after the war; giving up the wireless because they couldn't afford batteries for it; Laurie teaching at Scotch College in Kew; her husband taking to drink; the lack of childcare; needing to work to earn money; returning to university after the war.