The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Discussing Women's Emergency Signalling Corp; enlistment process; HMAS Harman; gender division of labour in Navy; Molonglo Wireless Station; Australia; Women's Royal Australian Naval Service; telegraphists, disparity in rates of pay; demobilisation; post-war career with Navy.
Part 1 of (WR 5) Marion Stevens, Second Officer, WRANS, interviewed by Dr Ruth Thompson for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Part 2 of (WR 5) Marion Stevens, Second Officer, WRANS, interviewed by Dr Ruth Thompson for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Part 3 of (WR 5) Marion Stevens, Second Officer, WRANS, interviewed by Dr Ruth Thompson for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Discussing pre-war employment; joining the Women's Emergency Signalling Corp; enlisting in the Navy; training at Navy Office, Melbourne; posting to HMAS Harman; leisure in Queanbeyan and Canberra; mee
Discussing pre-war employment; working with Women's Emergency Signalling Corp; joining the WRANS; reaction of males to influx of females to Navy; accommodation at HMAS Harman; training course at Flind
Discussing pre-war employment; work with the Women's Emergency Signalling Corp; training Air Force recruits in morse code; formation of WRANS; joining the WRANS; posting to HMAS Harman; training as wi
Discussing pre-war employment; enlistment; acceptance into ASDIC; transfer to England and studying radar at Portsmouth; radar appointment to Adelaide; description of sinking of Rameses; intelligence r
Discussing enlistment in militia; pre-war employment; transfer to AIF in 1941; embarkation for Port Moresby on the Aquitania; Kokoda Campaigns and inadequacy of Australia's preparations; battalion cas
Discussing pre-war employment; enlistment; training camp at Brighton; battalion composition; leave; embarkation for Middle East campaigns; Tobruk campaign; return to Australia; jungle training at Kilc