Outdoor group portrait of Petty Officers of the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS), ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Melbourne, Albert Park
Accession Number P01638.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Albert Park
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 Petty Officers of the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS), Naval Communications Branch. Identified from left to right: WR/1390 Petty Officer Wran Writer (POWR WTR) Marjorie Gordon (later Mrs Roddick); WR/716 POWR WTR June Mary Reilly (nee Gray); WR/467 POWR WTR Heather June Brown; WR/125 Leading Wran Writer Yetta Rae Symons; WR/15 POWR Telegraphist Sybil Maud Beatrice Ogilvie; WR/83 POWR WTR Margaret Alithea Lanyon (nee Morrison); WR/760 POWR WTR Charmian Maxine Nicholson; WR/81 POWR WTR Ivy Derry; WR/33 POWR Telegraphist Gwendoline Ruby Fitzgerald; WR/113 POWR WTR Nancy Ella Peterson (later Chief Petty Officer); WR/471 POWR WTR Elsie Wynifred Morris; and WR/82 POWR WTR Mary Agnes Britt (later Chief Petty Officer).