Informal group portrait of members of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS), serving ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Queensland, North Queensland, Townsville, HMAS Magnetic
Accession Number P01826.016
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Buscombe, N
Place made Australia: Queensland, North Queensland, Townsville, HMAS Magnetic
Date made c 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal group portrait of members of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS), serving at the RAN shore establishment, HMAS Magnetic. Left to right: Back row (standing): D. ? Nixon; unknown; D. O'Grady; WRAN Writer Kath Hilder; unknown; N. Turner; unknown; Madge Warboys; Regulating WRAN Ewlyss Wilson; L. -. Front row (sitting and kneeling): Beryl Evans; unknown; E. Aubrey (kneeling at back); Regulating WRAN Joy Weston; Con Kelly; Leading Writer Nina Buscombe; Nancy Dawn; P. (or C.) Hill. (Original print housed in P run in AWM Archive Store)