Studio portrait of Lynette Garton wearing the uniform of the Women’s Emergency Signalling Corps ...

Place Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney
Accession Number P01262.229
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made 1939
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of Lynette Garton wearing the uniform of the Women’s Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC). WR/42 Lynette Spence Garton from Tamworth, NSW served in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) from 27 December 1941 until 24 January 1946 when she finished her service as a Leading Wran Telegraphist. One in a series of portraits of early members of the WESC, many of whom became WRANS. The album of portraits was compiled by Mrs Florence Violet McKenzie OBE, founder of WESC, which trained Signallers and Telegraphists.