Collected episode 11 - Women and War
Women have always played a vital role on the home front, supporting the war effort in a variety of ways from factory work to fund-raising. But women have also contributed though military service and by bearing witness. In Episode 11 of Collected, Louise Maher shares the war experiences of four very different women: Alice Chisholm, Olive Sherington, Nora Heysen and Sophia LeFaucheur.
Credits:
Presented by: Louise Maher
Produced by: Louise Maher
Interviewed:
Emma Campbell, Canberra historian and biographer
Shane Casey, Senior Curator Military Heraldry and Technology
Alex Torrens, Senior Curator Art
Melissa Cadden, Senior Curator Military Heraldry and Technology
Oral History
Nora Heysen interviewed by Hazel de Berg (8 Nov 1965), National Library of Australia ORAL TRC 1/138
Incidental Music
Good-bye-ee!
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C215818
Original music: Andy Heaney – Vice Like Grip
Captain Nora Heysen, New Guinea, 1941
Portrait of Mrs (later Dame) Alice Chisholm (DBE) who ran soldiers' canteens in the Middle East during the First World War.
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Sophia LeFaucheur at age 21, after liberation from POW camp.
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Olive Sherrington and her Peugeot 202 van in France, IWM HU 090267
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