The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Noreen Dudgeon of Rose Bay, NSW, instructs US Naval personnel in visual signalling. Left to right: Third class Signallers E. W. Schwaller of Appleton, Wisconsin; W. G. Hunter of Monroe, Wisconsin; Joe Smerdel of Indianapolis, Indiana; T. C. Johnson of Abilene, Texas; R. L. Walters of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. They are amongst the first group of US Navy personnel to do a full signals course with the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps. Believed to be the only signals school run by women in the world, it has trained 10,000 Allied fighting men since war began. All instructors give services voluntarily. Director and Chief Instructor, Mrs F. V. McKenzie, an electrical engineer, has had a radio transmitting licence for many years and was one of Sydney's first experimenters in radio.
Miss Noreen Dudgeon. ONE IN A SERIES OF PORTRAITS OF EARLY MEMBERS OF WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SIGNALLING CORPS (WESC), MANY OF WHOM BECAME WRANS. THE ALBUM OF PORTRAITS WAS COMPILED BY MRS FLORENCE VIOLET M
Probably SYDNEY, NSW. LIEUTENANT HARGRAVE, THE SENIOR OF TWO US AIRMEN WHO MADE A FORCED LANDING IN THE SEA OFF AMBON, IS A NATIVE OF NEWBURG, INDIANA AND RECEIVED HIS WINGS AT THE FAMOUS PENSACOLA FL
Probably SYDNEY, NSW. LIEUTENANT HARGRAVE, THE SENIOR OF TWO US AIRMEN WHO MADE A FORCED LANDING IN THE SEA OFF AMBON, IS A NATIVE OF NEWBURG, INDIANA AND RECEIVED HIS WINGS AT THE FAMOUS PENSACOLA FL
There are still Australians in Korea in June 1956. Although the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) is home now, the men of Signal Squadron, Commonwealth Contingent Korea are fulfillin
