W.A.A.A.F. Underground Communications Unit at Gawler |
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| Title : | W.A.A.A.F. Underground Communications Unit at Gawler |
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| Date of creation : | ca. 1945 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Dimensions : | 150 x 200 mm | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
W.A.A.A.F. Underground Communications Unit stationed at Gawler operating morse code keys. L-r: Rae Bull; Helen Robertson; Shirley Carmichael. The WAAAF was formed in March 1941 in response to intensive lobbying and because of a need for additional wireless telegraphists. When Japan entered the war in December 1941 the role of the women was broadened to include mechanics, electricians, armament and transport workers, and in the medical, signals and radar fields of work. Numbers increased from 1500 at the end of 1941 to over 18,000 in late 1944. The WAAAF was the largest of the women's auxiliary services. |
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| Related names : | Australia. Royal Australian Air Force. Women's Auxiliary |
| Period : | 1939-1945 |
| Place : | Gawler |
| Further reading : | Beaumont, Joan (ed.) Australia's war, 1939-1945, St. Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 1996 Bolt, Andrew Our home front 1939-1945, Melbourne: Wilkinson Books, c1995 Clark, Rosemary The home front: life in Australia during World War II, Melbourne: Australia Post, 1991 The Home front family album: remembering Australia 1939-1945, introduction by Nancy Keesing, Sydney: Weldon, 1991 McKernan, Michael. All in!: Australia during the second world war, Melbourne, Vic.: Nelson, 1983 Stevenson, Clare and Darling, Honor The W.A.A.A.F. book, Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, c1984 Thomson, Joyce A. The WAAAF in wartime Australia, Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1991 |
| Internet links : | Commemoration Committee (Queensland) - History - The Australian home front during World War 2 Australian War Memorial - Australia under attack 1942-1943 Department of Veterans' Affairs - Australia's war 1939-1945 - All in: the Australian home front 1939-1945 Australian women: Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) |
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