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National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Article - Trench Art In Reverse; Cross-Stitched Pennant Flag

This item contributes to an understanding of the experience of family and friends of those who served in the war in Vietnam ( 1962 - 1972).A letter from Milton C.W. Pearson, Company Sergeant Major 106 Field Workshop 1968/69 explaining the article regarding the cross-stitched pennant flag.88 106 field workshop, raeme, 15484, wo colin thorpe
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Photograph, Gibbons, Denis, On Patrol

Denis Gibbons (1937 – 2011) Trained with the Australian Army, before travelling to Vietnam in January 1966, Denis stayed with the 1st Australian Task Force in Nui Dat working as a photographer. For almost five years Gibbons toured with nine Australian infantry battalions, posting compelling war images from within many combat zones before being flown out in late November 1970 after sustaining injuries. The images held within the National Vietnam Veterans Museum make up the Gibbons Collection. A black and white photograph of a Digger moves through thick jungle during a search and destroy missionphotograph, digger, gibbons collection catalogue, jungle, denis gibbons
Victoria Police Museum
Oral history, Senior Sergeant Joan Paffett and Edna Meadows, March 2017

Joan Paffett and Edna Meadows (nee Fyfe) are former police women. Joan Paffett was Senior Sergeant 15275. During her service she supervised other police women, including the all female squad in the early 1970s. Edna Meadows, registered number 15484, began her career as a nurse but later joined Victoria Police. Both women were the only women in their squads and began their careers with the Women Police Division at Russell St. In this interview they discuss their experiences joining the force and training Digital archive of oral history of former police women Joan Paffett and Edna Meadows (nee Fyfe). Cut for exhibition purposes.police woman, police women, policewoman, oral history, paffett, fyfe, meadows, victoria police