Members of the WRANS and RAN at HMAS Harman Naval Wireless Station working on camouflage nets for ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Australian Capital Territory, HMAS Harman
Accession Number P01132.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Australian Capital Territory, HMAS Harman
Date made c 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Members of the WRANS and RAN at HMAS Harman Naval Wireless Station working on camouflage nets for slit trenches surrounding the station. Cloth was threaded through wire netting then dunked in mud. Identified from left to right is WR/22 Telegraphist Marjorie Isla (Bobbie) Chatterton, from Croydon, NSW, an unidentified sailor, WR/6 Telegraphist June Margaret MacLeod, from Vaucluse, NSW, and WR/102 Phoebe Olga Cohen, from Randwick, NSW.