Portrait of Natalia Davies |
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| Title : | Portrait of Natalia Davies |
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| Date of creation : | ca. 1928 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
Natalia Davies graduated from Adelaide University in 1930 but had begun teaching several years previously. In 1933 she founded the Defence Society and provided classes for the largely female membership in rifle maintenance, first aid, fire drill, and motor mechanics and electrical engineering. From 1940 the range of skills was broadened to include first aid, home nursing. The society's members were predominantly women drawn from all walks of life. For a fee of a shilling (about 10 cents) an hour, the society taught women to shoot and maintain a rifle. After Japan's entry into the war in 1942 members went on duty every night at a roof-watching post in the city. |
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| Related names : | Defence Society (Adelaide, S. Aust.) |
| Period : | 1927-1939 |
| Further reading : | Beaumont, Joan (ed.) Australia's war, 1939-1945, St. Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 1995 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 |
| Internet links : | Australian dictionary of biography online - Natalia Davies Anzac Day 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 Imperial War Museum - Collections online - Civilians |
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