Wedding group portrait for the marriage of Private Sneesby (4th from left) to Gwen H. Forster ...

Wedding group portrait for the marriage of Private Sneesby (4th from left) to Gwen H. Forster (5th from left). The identity of the other members of the group is not known. Private Sneesby and the other soldier at extreme left are members of a Motor Transport Unit of the Australian Army Service Corps (AASC). The bride was serving as a Writer with the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS). Owing to wartime shortages of dress materials, she had had to borrow her wedding dress from a cousin who had married before the war. The bridesmaids' dresses were made from lengths of fabric purchased with clothing coupons scrounged from sympathetic relatives. As ribbon was unobtainable, the ties used for the bouquets were made from dress material, which accounts for their wrinkled appearance. The large bouquets indicate that flowers at least were in plentiful supply. (Original housed in AWM Archive Store)