Informal portrait of Mary Blackwood standing alongside a DH60g Gypsy Moth training aircraft. She ...

Accession Number P03225.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Associated Press
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made c 1939-1945
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 portrait of Mary Blackwood standing alongside a DH60g Gypsy Moth training aircraft. She was sponsored to join the Australian Womens Flying Club (AWFC), where she learnt to fly, and later joined the Womens Air Training Corps (WATC). The aircraft belonged to the Camden Flying Training School.