Roof spotters, Duncan Buildings, Franklin Street: Area 28 |
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| Title : | Roof spotters, Duncan Buildings, Franklin Street: Area 28 |
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| Source : | Davies, Natalia, PRG 925/1/25 | ||
| Date of creation : | ca. 1942 | ||
| Format : | Manuscript | ||
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| Description : |
This typewritten list, with handwritten corrections, details names, phone numbers and locations of roof spotters and spotting locations in Area 28, which included Adelaide city and some suburbs. The Defence Society in Adelaide had been founded in February 1933 by schoolteacher and union activist Natalia Davies. 'From 1940 ... evening classes on first aid, home nursing, motor engineering, elementary electrical work and fire drill [were held]. ... the society taught hundreds of women to shoot and maintain a rifle.' [Australian Dictionary of Biography Online: Davies, Natalia (Nat) (1907 - 1951)] |
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| Period : | 1939-1945 |
| Region : | Adelaide city |
| 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 |
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