The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to the Second World War service of Jean Evelyn Sims (married name Scott), Australian Women's Land Army, Australia, 1942-1945.
Collection consists of:
- One typed letter to Sims' parents, written while she was ‘office girl for the day’, discussing her work and other general issues.
- Two used envelopes, one with ‘Women’s Land Army, N.S.W.’ printed on it, both with illustrations depicting farm work.
- Photocopies of four letters thanking the Women’s Land Army for their work during the War from people in charge of the scheme.
- Four black and white photographs, three depicting Scott's time in the Women’s Land Army, and a fourth taken in 1983.
- One Australian Women’s Land Army service record book spanning the dates 28 June 1942 to 22 December 1945.
- One copy of the ‘History of the Women’s Australian National Services 1940-1946’, with several annotations by Scott.
- One photocopy of a cartoon book created by Scott depicting common events in her service period; and two additional sketch facsimiles, one depicting a lady in a shower commenting on how old the showers are, and the other a series of miscellaneous household items.
- One satirised version of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If’, with words adapted to show appreciation of England’s Land Army.
- Two photocopies of a poem written by Sgt S Clark, RAA entitled ‘Australian Women’s Land Army’, and a facsimile of two ‘Poems of the AWLA (NSW) 1942-45’.
- A list of parody songs with lyrics sung by the Australian Women’s Land Army, with note of the songs that they are parodying.
Mrs Jean Scott was a member of the Australian Women's Land Army, (AWLA) which was formed to do the manual labour on farms, in place of the men who had gone to war. There were 6000 AWLA girls in the Co
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Service record book kept by Lily Waterson during her service in the Australian Women's Land Army. It records periods of training and leave, clothing issued and work in orchard at Yarrawonga, Victoria.
A collection of papers relating Mrs Taylor' service with the Australian Women's Land Army in Queensland. The collection includes a copy of the "Land Army Gazette (Qld Division)", a history of the Qld
Two letters written by Lieutenant Norman Scott to Eric Scott, 1917-1918. In one letter Lieutenant Scott describes the last flight and shooting down of the German pilot Baron von Ritchtofen. The second