Flight Officer Joyce Opie, RAAF Headquarters, Eastern Area and Flight Lieutenant E. Coleman, No. ...

Place Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney
Accession Number P02221.008
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Sydney Sun (John Fairfax Ltd)
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made c September 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Flight Officer Joyce Opie, RAAF Headquarters, Eastern Area and Flight Lieutenant E. Coleman, No. 2 Recruit Centre, Sydney, give recruiting information to women at a city shop, Anthony Hordern & Sons / Wynns Emporium, where employees were not in reserved occupations. The recruiting drive by the officers was to boost enlistment into the services including the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF).