Thomas, Alice Jean

Collection relating to the Second World War service of Alice Jean Thomas, Australian Women's Land Army, 1940.

Collection consists of three looseleaf papers and handwritten copies relating to the establishment of the Australian Women's Land Army in Launceston, Tasmania in 1940. Included is a handwritten organisational chart of the Women's Land Army (WLA) Tasmania from registered rural women up to the Tasmanian Department of Agriculture and Manpower and the Commonwealth War Organisation of Industry; a handwritten itemised list of the categories of women who were required to be listed on the 'Compulsory Register of rural women' and, typescript copies of minutes of a meeting held on June 28, 1940. Present at that meeting were three members of the Country Women's Association, Tasmania, Mrs Belmont Clark, Mrs Alice Jean Thomas OBE, Mrs V. (Edith Ranson); Mr Guy Parsons, probably Tasmanian Primary Producers Union; Mr Francis Forster, Tasmanian Member of House of Assembly and probably President of Tasmanian Farmers, Stockowners and Orchardists Association and, Miss Agnes Hodgson for whom there are brief biographical details. Attached to each of the three pages is a later document created in the 1990s explaining the original document.