Outdoor group portrait of some of the first members of the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Australian Capital Territory, HMAS Harman
Accession Number P01132.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Place made Australia: Australian Capital Territory, HMAS Harman
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

Outdoor group portrait of some of the first members of the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS). Identifed from left to right: WR/5 Wran Telegraphist Marion Stevens (later Second Officer); WR/12 Wran Telegraphist Judith Purchase Alley (later Chief Petty Officer; WR/9 Wran Telegraphist Ethel Joan Cade (later Petty Officer); WR/1 Wran Telegraphist Frances Betty Provan (later Third Officer); WR/4 Wran Telegraphist Denise Culver Owen (later Third Officer); WR/13 Wran Signaller Shirley Isobel Drew (later Petty Officer); WR/10 Wran Telegraphist Joan Muriel Hodges (later Third Officer); and WR/11 Wran Telegraphist Sylvia Violette (Billie) Thompson (later Third Officer).