Picnic after shooting practice |
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| Title : | Picnic after shooting practice |
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| Source : | Davies, Natalia, PRG 925/13/28 | ||
| Date of creation : | ca. 1943 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
A group of women, members of the Defence Society, having a picnic after shooting practice at Carrick Hill. The Defence Society in South Australia was founded in 1933 by Natalia Davies. As President of this group she was able to obtain information from the Home Office in England, and directed the training of the women members. After the war started training covered first aid, home nursing, motor engineering, elementary electrical work and fire drill. Later classes also covered map-reading, pistol shooting and unarmed defence. |
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| Related names : | Defence Society (Adelaide, S. Aust.) |
| Period : | 1939-1945 |
| Place : | Springfield |
| 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 |
| Internet links : | 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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