P01826.016 Accession Number: P01826.016

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Informal group portrait of members of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS), serving at the RAN shore establishment, HMAS Magnetic. Identified from left to right, back row (standing): unidentified; WR/822 Wran Supply Assistant Hazel Isabel Nixon from Oaklands, NSW; unidentified; WR/2347 Wran Stores Assistant Daphne June O'Grady from Queenstown, Tasmania; WR/1937 Wran Writer Kathleen Mary Hilder from Rose Bay, NSW; unidentified; WR/705 Wran Supply Assistant Nancy May Turner from Oakleigh, Victoria; unidentified; WR/1941 Wran Writer Madge Gweneth Worboys from Canowindra, NSW; WR/2252 Regulating Wran Eulys Dawes Wilson from Cremorne, NSW.
Front row (sitting and kneeling): WR/1944 Wran Supply Assistant Beryl Evans from Newcastle, NSW; unidentified; E Aubrey (kneeling at back); WR/1072 Regulating Wran Joyce Evelyn ‘Joy’ Weston from Elsternwick, Victoria; WR/485 Wran Sick Berth Attendant Constance Anne Kelly from Cheltenham, Victoria; WR/218 Leading Wran Writer Nina Dorothea Kestell-Buscombe from Surrey Hills, Victoria; WR/1229 Wran Supply Assistant Nancye Mavis Dann from Middle Park, Victoria; WR/468 Leading Wran Regulating (later Third Officer) Carmen Hill from South Yarra, Victoria.

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Accession Number
P01826.016
Photographer
N Buscombe
Classification
Photograph
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
c 1944
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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