- Title
- Heather Starr, Leading Telegraphist, Women's Royal Australian Naval Service
- Repository
- Australian War Memorial Research Centre
- Reference
- S00593
- Date Range
- 13 June 1989
- Creator
- Dr Ruth Thompson
- Description
Heather Starr, Leading Telegraphist, Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, interviewed by Dr Ruth Thompson for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.
Discussing pre-war employment; joining the Women's Emergency Signalling Corp; enlisting in the Navy; training at Navy Office, Melbourne; posting to HMAS Harman; leisure in Queanbeyan and Canberra; working with Y Section; security; disparity in pay between male and female members of the Australian Navy; uniforms; changes to HMAS Harman after 1944; demobilisation; post-demobilisation retraining; adjustment to civilian life.- Formats
- cassette
- Access
- Cleared


