The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Group portrait of the Women's Australian National Service (WANS), Kogarah Detachment. Back row: June Picton; Miss Freeme; unidentified; Alma Swann; unidentified; Betty Marchant; two unidentified; Mrs Holder; Mrs Weller. Middle row: Linda Swann; two unidentified; Mrs Nunn; Jane Bray; six unidentified. Front row: Miriam Picton; unidentified; Gwen Tarrens; unidentified; Mrs Hunter- King; Joyce Thompson; unidentified; Esmie Swann. The Kogarah district WANS included women from the Carlton, Ramgate and Kogarah Bay areas. They met in the Kogarah Home Science Highschool for training and in the Congregational Church Kogarah for First Aid training. Their duties included; home nursing, making camouflage nets, performing administration tasks for the nearby 45 Battalion and entertaining and caring for the patients in Ward 17 at the 113th Australian General Hospital (AGH). Another role for many of the WANS was to work at the British Centre in Hyde Park, helping to provide companionship, entertainment and meals to the British troops. A few of the WANS also belonged to the Fire Brigade at Kogarah and would on occasion work at city headquarters in Castlereagh Sreet, Sydney.
Group portrait including Jane Harriot Bray (front) and June Picton (later Lloyd, back right) in the Women's Australian National Services (WANS) uniform. Bray of Kogarah, NSW, was a member of the Kogar
Oval shaped sterling silver lapel badge surmounted by the King's Crown with red enamel infill. Around the edge of the badge is `CIVILIAN WAR EMERGENCY / AID SERVICE'. In the centre is 'C.A.S' in red e
Group portrait including Jane Harriot Bray (front) and June Picton (later Lloyd, back right) in the Women's Australian National Services (WANS) uniform. Bray of Kogarah, NSW, was a member of the Kogar
KU-RING-GAI, NSW. MEMBERS OF THE WOMEN'S AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL SERVICE (WANS) ON ARRIVAL AT CAMP, IN UNIFORM. LEFT TO RIGHT: BACK ROW: PHYLLIS HAMILTON, GWEN PIPER, ELVINA (PAL) PALMISANO, PHOEBE BORCHA
GOLDERS GREEN, LONDON, ENGLAND. 1 DECEMBER 1915. GROUP PORTRAIT OF PATIENTS AND NURSING STAFF AT THE GOLDERS GREEN MILITARY CONVALESCENT HOME. R.C. SWANN, SEATED FAR LEFT, FRONT ROW, WAS WOUNDED AT LO
OTFORD, NSW, 1941-08-31. FOURTH LEADERSHIP TRAINING COURSE OF THE WOMEN'S AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL SERVICE (WANS), ONE OF THE VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS FORMED BEFORE THE OFFICIAL WOMEN'S DEFENCE SERVICES WER
WRANS of the hospital galley staff at HMAS Cerberus. Identified back row from left to right WR2217 Cook Joyce Palmer, unidentified, WR2305 Cook Florence Gwen Weatherill, unidentified, WR2729 Assistant
