Collection of two photographs from Post WWII displayed in a Bendigo District RSL Exhibition post 2011. Exhibition called "Our Service Ladies".1. & 2. Photographs - enlarged black and white copies on photographic paper of a post WW2 service woman dressed in uniform. Mount - white cardboard with adhesive label on lower edge with printed information. 1. Portrait of a service woman. 2. Informal group photograph of two service women with a male civilian.Information details - black ink print, 1. "Our Service Ladies/ Sgt Helen EASTMENT (Herrick)/ WRACC: F1/337 - F105019/ 30/04/1956 - 02/07/1962" 2. "Our Service Ladies/ Telethons/ ABC Radio Announcer - Ross Tyson with / Cpl Helen EASTMENT (Herrick) WRACC &/ Pte Margaret THOMPSON"photographic portrait, service women, post wwii, exhibition, sgt helen eastment, pte margaret thompson

This trophy was presented by the Country Women's Association (C.W.A) Kiewa Valley Branch circa 1950's. This was in a period when the C.W.A. was the major women's organisation which had the greatest influence amongst rural women (especially in isolated areas). This was a period when broad based communications were mainly by radio,women orientated magazines and the telephone. The CWA was an organisation that catered exclusively to women's needs. The atmosphere was one of "sisterhood" and covered nearly all the needs of rural based women. This one organisation incorporated knowledge and learning targeting women who physically may be isolated but not mentally. The C.W.A. motto "Honour our God, Loyalty to the throne, Service to the country, Through country women, For country women, By country women."The Kiewa Valley Group of the C.W.A. was a focal point for women in this still relatively isolated rural region to have a place of refuge from the heavy domestic demands that family and business exerted, and the need of a time and space to gain all the mental relaxation and group bonding necessary to balance the sometimes harsh environment that rural life presented.Silver plated chalice trophy has two "block ear" type handles fastened at the top lip and going 40mm vertically down to reconnect with the bowl. The bowl is connected to the dark brown plastic base by a brass (silver plating has worn off) stem (flower vase shaped).the chalice stem is attached to a circular tapered dome 30mm high which is also silver plated. The plastic base has a 35mm high extension rising from the broader circular bottom section and is rectangular in shape except for the quarter circular indent at each corner. The final circular base provides the chalice with the stability to stand on a flat surface. The whole of the base is hollow allowing the stem fastening nut to be viewed. The inscription on the chalice has been carefully and professionally scribed into the metal. "*C W A* KIEWA VALLEY GROUP H & H.I. EXHIBITION-PRIZE FOR MEMBERS. 40 & OVER" mementos, acknowledgement, cwa awards, trophies, rural women's club

This trophy was presented by the Country Women's Association (C.W.A) Kiewa Valley Branch circa 1950's and 1960s. This was in a period when the C.W.A. was the major women's organisation which had the greatest influence among rural women (especially in isolated areas). This was a period when broad based communications were mainly by radio,women orientated magazines and the telephone. The CWA was an organisation that catered exclusively to women's needs. The C.W.A. motto; "Honour our God, Loyalty to the throne, Service to the country, Through country women, For country women, By country women."The atmosphere was one of "sisterhood" and covered nearly all the needs of rural based women. This one organisation incorporated knowledge and learning targeting women who physically may be isolated but not mentally. This particular trophy was for the "most outstanding Item" in the years: 1956,1958, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965.The Kiewa Valley Group of the C.W.A. was a focal point for women in this still relatively isolated rural region a place of refuge from the heavy domestic demands that family and business exerted. It provided for women needs of a time and space to gain all the mental relaxation and group bonding necessary to balance the sometimes harsh environment that rural life presented. It provided companionship and "self worth" avenues through competitions in various activities. Unlike the rural males retreat to the local pub for male bonding women's retreat to the CWA provided a greater facility to interact with other women, of like minds, which for the majority of time benefited their families as well.This item has been manufactured in the form of a "flower" vase. It is made from bronze and is silver plated. It resembles the ancient Olympic torch, with a wide rim at the top and narrowing to the base. The base is circular and has three wave like forms cascading from the base of the "stem" to the bottom of the base."HICKEN TROPHY 1956"mementos, acknowledgement, cwa awards, trophies, rural women's club

This tea towel was manufactured in 1978 in Ireland and shipped to Australia. This was in a period when the C.W.A. was the major women's organisation which had the greatest influence amongst rural women (especially in isolated areas). This was a period when broad based communications were mainly by radio,women orientated magazines and the telephone. The relay of television to "remote" rural areas was not yet established. The CWA was therefore a very important organisation that catered exclusively to women's needs. The C.W.A. motto "Honour our God, Loyalty to the throne, Service to the country, Through country women, For country women, By country women." The atmosphere was one of "sisterhood" and covered nearly all the needs of rural based women. This one organisation incorporated knowledge and learning targeting women who physically may be isolated but not mentally. On the tea towel are portrayed all the activities that would be beneficial to rural women.This tea towel with its respective motifs is very significant to the Kiewa Valley as it related especially to women who felt the limitations of social interactions within a rural area. This tea towel represents a era where communications was relatively based on radio, magazines, books and limited telephone access. Within these restrictive interactive communication levels, the isolation of a "back o' Bourke" location applied tremendous mental fatigue on women more than on men.This CWA Victoria Golden Jubilee (1928-1978) tea towel is made from Irish flax at the Blackstaff Flax Spinning and Weaving factory. It is therefore of high quality and very durable. The major colours projecting from a light blue background are red, yellow, green, orange and black. The motives portrayed the activities of the CWA in 1978. These activities are embroidery, crocheting, dress making, knitting, cooking, art, macrame, drama, music, patchwork, toy making and community relief, pennies for friendship, emergency relief and welfare, residential club flats, the thanks giving and Papua New Guinea.The main or central theme of this tea towel is presented in the central area within three rings. "1928" on the left and "1978" on the right. On the top part "GOLDEN JUBILEE" and at the bottom "COUNTRY WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF VICTORIA" There are various shapes representing the activities listed above.cwa promotional material, cwa golden jubilee, women only organisations, country women's association

Index, ill, map, p.354.non-fictionBefore Bletchley Park could break the German war machine's code, its daily military communications had to be monitored and recorded by 'the Listening Service', the wartime department whose bases moved with every theatre of war (Cairo, Malta, Gibraltar, Iraq, Cyprus) as well as having listening stations along the eastern coast of Britain to intercept radio traffic in the European theatre. This is the story of the - usually very young - men and women sent out to farflung outposts to listen in for Bletchley Park, an oral history of exotic locations and ordinary lives turned upside down by a sudden remote posting - the heady nightlife in Cairo, filing cabinets full of snakes in North Africa, and flights out to Delhi by luxurious flying boat.world war 1939-1945 - great britain - intelligence, world war 1939-1945 - cryptography

Light green coloured tri-fold card with black printing. Ringwood to Melbourne and Melbourne to Ringwood timetables, includes Monday to Friday, a separate Saturday and separate Sunday listings. Most of the front and back of folding card contains advertisements, including Electrician (Alan Adams of Croydon), Builder (R.K. Ritchie - villa specialist), Fuel Merchant (H. Tortice of Ringwood), Grass Cutting (C.G. Pattenden of Adelaide St, Ringwood), Motor Mowers Sales and Service (John Salisbury of Ringwood), TV Radio Service (D.G. Hill of Heathmont), Real Estate Agent (A.T. Miles & Son of Ringwood), Women's, Men's & Children's Wear - (Louis Economy Shop of Ringwood), Painting, Decorating & Paperhanging (D.G Jeffs of Heathmont), Fruiterer and Greengrocer (Vincenzo Condello of Ringwood), Pygmalion Ladies' Accessories (Ringwood Arcade), Boronia Metals (Albert Ave, Boronia), General Plumbing (Bill Watson of Croydon), The Brown Study - Lending Library and Bookshop (Ringwood), Concreting - Eastwood Paving Pty Ltd (East Ringwood), Maroondah Caravan Sales (Ringwood),

Articles in the annual report include: the supply of building materials for a Hostel for Blind Women (courtesy of guest speaker Hon. Clive Evatt), inability to secure a holiday property has resulted in a holiday benefit fund being established to pay the costs for a blind person and their guide, the upcoming addition of an Occupational Therapist on staff, to establish an Honour Roll for outstanding services to the blind, the continuance of the 'Glow Worm' radio broadcast on 2GB, and that despite good sales, manufacturing continues to run at a loss compared to commercial factories.1 volume of text and imagescorporation records, royal sydney industrial blind institution, k l barry, j eyre, e vance

7250 Clare Kinsella born 1907 c1940 -1 Clare Kinsella in navy Signals uniform c1943 -2 Clare Kinsella in navy Signals uniform c1943 -3 William Jennings Kinsella with stationery engine at farm Maya Park Lubeck -4 Clare Kinsella with dog Pencil at Magdala farm Lubeck -5 Clare Kinsella with dog Pencil at Station Creek Magdala Farm Lubeck -6 Clare Kinsella with dog Pencil at Magdala Farm Lubeck -7 Clare with child at Magdala Farm -8 Clare with pet cocky “Cocky” -9 Horse at farm -10 William Jennings Kinsella at 93 with ham radio Clare Best nee Kinsella Clare was born December 26, 1907 at “Eyrecourt” on the corner of Scallan and Ligar Streets in Stawell. Clare was the second child of William Jennings Kinsella and Sarah Kinsella nee Peardon. In 1910 the family moved to live at ‘Mayo Park” Lubeck. In 1920’s Mayo Park was sold and a new house was built on a farm nearby called “Magdala” after the mine in which Mr Kinsella’s family had been involved. Clare attended Lubeck State Public School with her older brother Tom, younger sister Carmel and youngest brother Bill. In 1941 Clare left the farm to join the Womens Royal Australian Navy. Her WRAN service number was WR/38 and in the 4 years of service had advanced to Leading Telegraphist. Initially stationed at HMAS Harman in Canberra then Townsville Naval Radio Station Queensland and finally discharged at HMAS Lonsdale, Port Melbourne.. Clare married Keith Charles Best in 1946 also a Leading Telegraphist of HMAS Harman. After they were married Keith was drafted up to Darwin while Clare worked at a Roman Catholic Mission on Melville Island where she had many adventures establishing a farm at the Mission. Keith was discharged in 1952 and they both worked establishing a Pineapple Farm/ General Store at Noonamah just out of Darwin. Later they moved to a remote farm on the Daily River but after 10 years and 7 years of constant floods they retired to Harvey Bay Queensland. Clare led an active life and died in 1999, her ashes are in the Jennings/Kinsella Vault in the Stawell Cemetery. B/W Photos

Book review of "A special kind of service" by Joan Crouch. The book is about a wartime field hospital, the 2/9th Australian General Hospital (AGH). It was a portable group of about 300 nurses, doctors and support servicemen. The 2/9th AGH started it's life by heading by sea for the Middle East, where it was to care for ill and injured troops. It operate with a minimum of 600 bed, with 4000 at times of stress. Sister Joan Crouch has collected dairies, correspondence, official records, recollections and photos from people who served with the 2/9th for her book, told chronologically. The book begins with the first passage as a unit, via India, to the Middle East. They established the 2/9th AGH near the Arab village of Amiriya, where sand storms penetrated everything, including the operating theatre, but the staff were able to go sightseeing at the Pyramids. Next they moved to a monastery in Nazareth, where it snowed over Christmas 1941. The 2/9th AGH was recalled after Pearl Harbour to assist in South-East Asia, but Singapore fell so they came back to Northfield, Australia for a few months. They were then moved to a site 30km out of Port Moresby, called Seventeen-Mile. There they bore the brunt of casualties from the Kokoda Trail, with December 1942 seeing them looking after 4000 with a staff of twenty-nine doctors, 112 sisters and about 300 others. The 'walking wounded' were known to help nurse the bedridden. In September 1943 the first group of the Australian Army Medical Womens Service (AAMWS) arrived to assist the 2/9th AGH. March 1944 ended the service of the 2/9th AGH in what is now Papua New Guinea and they briefly returned to Tamworth, Australia, before closing temporarily for a few months. March1945, the 2/9th AGH were sent to assist in the Borneo campaign at Morotai, where they saw out the war. Joan Crouch worked as a nurse with 2/9th AGH, during World War II, continued afterwards in the Army Nursing Service (ANS) and was later involved in the Korean War, working in Japan and Seoul. A photocopy of a large newspaper clipping consisting of a title, eight columns of text and a black and white photo of a group of women sitting outside'THE NEWCASTLE HERALD / 21 FEB 1987' [photocopied ink, top left]wwii, world war two, ww2, korea, alternative publishing co-operative, adelaide, alexandria, tobruk, crete, merewether beach, red cross, bbc world service, big ben, red cross radio, syria, 7th australian division, casa nova monastery, terra santa monastery, rouna falls, laloki river, loribaiwa, church of the nativity, bethlehem, westmead hospital, new south wales, south australia, molucca group, macarthur, philippines, japanese emperor, potsdam agreement, nagasaki, american, america, pows, prisoners of war