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Photograph 012815 Second World War, 1939-1945PHOTO SHOWS LUNCHEON AFTER LAUNCHING HMIS BENGAL . THE CEREMONY WAS PERFORMED BY MRS CURTIN, WIFE OF THE PRIME MINISTER.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
PHOTO SHOWS LUNCHING AFTER LAUNCHING HMIS BENGAL. THE CEREMONY WAS PERFORMED BY MRS CURTIN, WIFE OF THE PRIME MINISTER.
PHOTO SHOWS LUNCHEON AFTER LAUNCHING HMIS BENGAL . THE CEREMONY WAS PERFORMED BY MRS CURTIN, WIFE OF THE PRIME MINISTER.

Mrs Elsie Curtin, wife of the Australian prime mnister, speaking at a luncheon after she launched the Indian Navy corvette HMIS Bengal at the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company.

SYDNEY, NSW. HMAS GOULBURN MOVING DOWN THE SLIPWAY AFTER MRS. J.G. CRACE, WIFE OF REAR ADMIRAL CRACE, PERFORMED THE LAUNCHING CEREMONY.

CANBERRA, A.C.T. 6 JULY 1945. A MEMORIAL SERVICE WAS HELD IN KING'S HALL, PARLIAMENT HOUSE, CANBERRA, FOR THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN CURTIN, PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA, WHO DIED ON 5 JULY 1945. SHOWN,

LAUNCHING OF HMAS WARRAMUNGA. MRS. F.M. FORDE, WIFE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER, CHRISTENS THE VESSEL.

Canberra, ACT. 1944-07-19. Her Excellency Lady (Zara) Gowrie, wife of the retiring Governor General of Australia, during a farewell function arranged for her by the wives of members of the Commonwealt
