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Newspaper clipping from The Courier, 20/11/1971(based on item Reg. No. 939, dated 22/11/1971) about the opening of the Zion Kindertram, No. 42, at the Zion Congregational Sunday school, Walker St. Sebastopol the following day. Mentions Kindergarten leader, Mrs. Betty Curtain. Item not dated. See Reg. Item 2920 about the delivery of the tram.trams, tramways, kindertram, zion congregational church, tram bodies

Members of the Joint Action Group (JAG) pose for a Photograph. This photo appears on page 3 of the Vol 5 No 3, Spring 1992 issue of the Arthritis Foundation of Victoria's quarterly magazine, Arthritis Update. The photo accompanies an article titled, "Recruits for Joint Action wanted". It is captioned: "Joint Action members, from left, Eveline Lee, Betty Eavis, Ruth Stewart, Anne Sayce, Sandy Exall and Alan Stewart."B&W photo of a small group of people posing for a photo. They are standing in a row in three-quarter profile, each with one hand on their left hip. Behind them is a large curtain, similar to a stage curtain.[handwritten in black ink] MEMBERS OF JOINT ACTION From Left: Eveline Lee, Betty Eavis, Ruth Stewart, Anne Sayce, Sandy Exall, Alan Stewart [handwritten in blue ink, then crossed out] 75% 60% [handwritten in red ink] 3A [handwritten in thick black pencil] 76% [handwritten in green ink] 78% [handwritten in pencil] Arth Update July 1991-arthritis foundation of victoria, afv, joint action team, jag, eveline lee, betty eavis, ruth stewart, anne sayce, sandy exall and alan stewart, 1991, 1992

Betty Duval (now Cornford) decided to sign up with Australia's Defence Forces in February 1941 to have an adventure. Four weeks later she was off to Victoria Dock with all the nurses to head overseas, destination unknown. Betty was onboard the RMS Mauretania, one of the convoy with the HMS Hobart, HM Queen Mary, RMS Aquitania, and SS New (Nieuw) Amsterdam, and a naval escort ship. Soon after leaving Perth the Queen Mary split off for Malaya. Of the sixty-five nursing sisters on board, only twenty-four would ever return to Australia alive. Betty and the RMS Mauretania arrived in Bombay. During the next fourteen months the nurses of the 2/9th Australian General Hospital (AGH) manned hospitals in Palestine and Egypt, depending entirely on the war and troop movements. Early 1942 saw Prime Minister John Curtain order the 6th and 7th Australian divisions withdraw from the Middle East. Betty boarded the [SS Strathallan], again with destination unknown. Arriving home in Melbourne saw Betty move on to nursing in Adelaide until her unit was to be sent to New Guinea for fifteen months. In 1945 Betty was discharged from the Army and married her sweetheart Doug.A black and white photocopy of a large magazine clipping, consisting of a title, two large photos and six columns of text. Both photos are of the same woman, the smaller one shows her as a young woman in nurse's uniform, the larger shows her present day, as an older woman, looking at photo albums.wwii, ww2, world war 2, world war two, victoria, victoria barracks, st kilda rd, epworth hospital, pows, prisoners of war, vyner brooke, japanese, banka island, taj mahal hotel, nazareth, tobruk, derna, english, america, strathalen, columba, singapore, british, darwin, 10th agh, spencer st station, victorian villa, doug cornford, moratai