Photograph album, including photographs of Australian Women’s Army Service, New South Wales, during World War II, compiled by Betty Moore

PXA 7616

fonds

1943-2008, predominant 1943-1947

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Clippings

9673619

1 album (223 photographs)
15 photographs - gelatin silver
1 clipping

Elizabeth Clara Ruby Moore was born in 1921 at Coogee, N.S.W.. She enlisted in the Australian Women's Army Service in May 1942 and was discharged in January 1946.

Reference
Vendor catalogue, Library correspondence file

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM
1a-h. Cpl. Marie Browlow ; "Donnie" & "Barry" ; Hut fatigue ; Cpl. Dorothy Ottway ; Pte. Del. Vercoe ; O/Offier and O/Sjt. N.B. new badges of office! ; [Portrait of officer] ; [Group portrait on bonnet of truck] [8 photographs]
2a-e. Field Days - "Tink" ; "Chow-time" ; O.C. and staff relax ; Sjt. Storey and rations ; Siesta! [5 photographs]
3a-e. Field Days - [Portrait of officer with puppies] ; Staff field day ; Staff field day ; Gen. "Hoo-Flung" ; Gen. "Hoo-Flung" [5 photographs]
4a-i. Bn. Hq. Ballet: "peanut", Libbie, "Brig.", and Terry ; [Group portrait at entrance to hut] ; "Gracie" and "Nellie" with Dvrs. Iliffe and Morgan ; [Group portrait standing on truck] ; Bn. Hq. Staff ; [Group portrait of three females] ; [Group portrait of three females] ; [Group portrait at entrance to hut] [Portrait of female on bonnet of truck] [9 photographs]
5a-i. [Group portraits and portraits of females, probably including Betty Moore] [9 photographs]
6a-h. Coy. HQ. Personalities - Ptes. Norma Day & Gwen Kirley ; [Group portrait of females] ; Capt. Bill Hornsby ; Norma, "Chillie", Bill, Gwen, "Podge" ; [Group portrait of females] ; Pte. Gwen Kirley ; [Group portrait of females] ; [Group portrait of females] [8 photographs]
7a-e. [Group portrait of females] ; [Group portrait of females with sporting gear] ; Staff Xmas dinner 1944 ; [Portrait of female outside Orderly Room] ; [Group portrait of females in aprons] [5 photographs]
8a-e. "E" Block - 1100 hrs. cuppa ; Sjt. J. Grieve... ; [Group portrait of females] ; Sjt. J. Ashley... ; Sjt. M. Lineham winning the war at Coy. HQ. [5 photographs]
9a-c. Peaceful Ingleburn - "Storm clouds" ; "Sunset" ; [Group portrait in front of two trucks] [3 photographs]
10a-e. A.W.S. N.C.O. School, Killara - 28.12.43 - 2.2.44 [Group portraits] [5 photographs]
11a-h. [Group portraits and portraits of females] [8 photographs]
12a-e. Last A.A.M.W.S. School [two group portraits] ; Wallacia Leave - 7.8.44 - 11.8.44 - [group portrait in boat] ; "Fernhill" ; [group portrait] [5 photographs]
13a-g. [Group portrait] ; [Group portrait] ; "Tawny" is bored ; Me and me dawg! ; [Unidentified feamles in back of truck] ; We leave Ingleburn to the P.O.W's - 2.10.45 ; A Sjt's farewell to her dog [7 photographs]
14. [blank]
15a-h. Bathurst leave - 8.10.43/11.10.43 - From "Marsden" Bks. ; Russell Park ; [Rural view] ; [Four portrait photographs of female officers in front of tree] ; From Y.W.C.A. Hostel ; In Y.W.C.A. Hostel [8 photographs]
16a-f. Lawson - leave - 5.11.43 - 8.11.43 [6 photographs]
17a-d. Wyong - leave 10.2.45-17.2.45 [4 photographs]
18a-g. View from "St. Clare" Wallacia - 7.8.44 [panorama, 2 photographs] ; Cobbitty leve - May, 1945 [Portraits and group portraits of horse riders and horse and carriage] ; View from Cut Hill Rd. [5 photographs]
19a-g. Sjt. J. H. Chapman - Melb. ; Capt. Bill Hornsby and W.O. Grieve in N.G. ; [Portraits and group portraits] [7 photographs]
20a-c. [Group portraits with notes identifying sitters] ; No. 1 Coy. [3 photographs]
21. Victory March - 16.8.45 - taken by Mr Hall outside his shop in Hunter St.
22a-e. Last march past at Ingleburn - 13.9.45. Staff of 2 Aust. A.W.S. Trg. Bn - Sept. 1945 (one photograph captioned Staff Platoon) [5 photographs]
23. [blank page]
24. [blank page]
25a-e. Wentworth falls Anniversary Weekend - 1946 [4 photographs] ; Wollongong - 19.1.46 [1 photograph]
26a-h. Douglas Park weekend - 27.7.46 [8 photographs]
27a-b. Two views from A.W.A. Tower, Sydney, 22.8.46 [2 photographs]
28a-e. [View of garden] ; Douglas Park, 1946 [4 photographs]
29a-c. "Mac" [Rough Collie dog] - 21.12.46 [2 photographs] ; Thirroul - 26.12.46 [1 photograph]
30. [Blank]
31a-c. Em and Geprge at Douglas Park and a "Fruity melodrama". 22/23.3.47 [2 photographs] ; Wallacia - 7.4.47 [1 photograph]
32a-g. Bobbin Head 11.5.47 [7 photographs]
33. [Blank page]
34a-e. Pioneer Tour Tour, June '47 (one with caption 'Lunch - first day out. Clare Castle Hotel, Raymond Terrace') [5 photographs]
35a-e. [Probably Pioneer Tour, June 1947] [8 photographs]
36a-c. [Pioneer tour, June 1947] [3 photographs]
37a-e. [Probably Pioneer Tour, June 1947] [5 photographs]
38. [Blank page]
39. [Blank page]
40a-f. [Possibly Pioneer Tour, June 1947] [6 photographs]
41a-d. [Possibly Pioneer Tour, June 1947] [5 photographs]
42a-d. [Possibly Pioneer Tour, June 1947] [4 photographs]
43a-c. [Possibly Pioneer Tour, June 1947] [3 photographs]
44a-f. [Possibly Pioneer Tour, June 1947] [6 photographs]
45a-d. [Views, possibly Pioneer Tour, June 1947] [4 photographs]
46a-e. Mountain Pool Tea Room Springbrook ; [Group portrait] ; [Group portrait] ; Boojarala Falls, Springbrook, Q. / Auto Studio, Brisbane ; Twin Falls, Springbrook, Q. / Auto Studio, Brisbane [5 photographs]
47a-c. [Group portraits] [3 photographs]
48a-e. [Two photographs of koala] ; [Portraits and group portraits, probably including Betty Moore] [3 photographs] ; [bird feathers attached to album page]
49a-e. [Five photographs including views of swimming pool, garden and pool]
50a-e. [Five photographs including Trans Australian Airlines plane and views from aircraft]

LOOSE PHOTOGRAPHS
Photographs (15), predominant 1943-1944, including portraits and group portraits of No. 2 Company ; Dot Frazer ; Joan McCann Cochy ; Muriel Bulz[?] ; Noni Bradshaw ; Marg Crittenden ; Sylvia Clarke [or Clark] ; Dinah[?] Comber ; Pat Neave[?] ; Barb Warlow[?] ; last AAMWS School, Ingleburn ; Trish[?] Higgs ; Bet Bull ; Helen Robinson ; Joan Grieve ; and Parade Ground, Ingleburn. Includes copy photographs.
Newsclipping - 'Hats off to our unsing heroes - women at war' by Malcolm Brown, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 July 2008, including photograph of Gwendolyn Dent (nee Blackett), Corporal Betty Moore and Corporal Eileen Boland, 1944.

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Some photographs captioned verso of image or on album page.

Front endpaper inscribed 'To Bett with love & best wishes from Mum & Dad, Xmas 1941'.