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Utting, Margaret (Peg) Vivian Moile (1922 - )

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Born: 31 October 1922  Nyah West, Victoria, Australia
Alternative Names:
  • Cockburn, Peg (maiden name, 31 October 1922 - 8 November 1944)
On 15 March 1941 Peg Cockburn (later Utting) was one of "The Original Mob" who enrolled in the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) at the No 1 RAAF Recruit Centre. After completing a "rookie training" course she was employed as a teleprinter operator and trainer during World War II. Peg Utting was one of the servicewomen that the WAAAF used for recruiting photographs.

Following the war she settled with her husband, Mac, in Black Rock and there they raised their two sons. She became involved in the local community becoming treasurer of the kindergarten and helped at the state school. Besides working clerical positions on either a casual or part-time basis, Utting joined the Southern Golf Club and was president of the Lady Associates. After being contacted by a previously unknown relative she became involved in recording her family history. A member of the Genealogical Society of Victoria she also joined the Sandringham & District Historical Society of which she was secretary for six years. On 7 March 2002 Utting was awarded an Honorary Life Membership for her contribution to the Historical Society. She self-published Their Life Their Legacy, a family history of her paternal side, in 2002.

Peg Utting, who joined the Women's Air Training Corps when she was 18, states that patriotism and a desire to do what all other young people were doing led her to enrolling in the WAAAF. Through the Service, Utting met a range of people and has maintained lifelong friendships with many especially those from "The Original Mob."

 
Sources used to compile this entry: information supplied by Peg Utting.
 
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  • Filmer, Natalie, '007 notches up a golden', Sandringham-Brighton Advertiser, 2 April 1991, p. 6. [ Details... ]

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See also

  • 'The Way We Were', Contact, vol. 46, Autumn, 1991, pp. 12-13. [ Details... ]
  • 'War veterans honoured', Bayside Leader, 26 November 2001, p. 5. [ Details... ]
  • Gillies, Fiona, 'WAAAF 'Mob' well met again', The Sunday Herald, 17 March 1991. [ Details... ]
  • Johnston, Esme, 'Introducing the W.A.A.A.F. : An account of Australia's first Women's Auxiliary Air Force', The New Idea, no. 30 May 1941, 1941, pp. 16-17. [ Details... ]
  • Thomson, Joyce A, The WAAAF in Wartime Australia, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic., 1992, 422 pp. [ Details... ]

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Structure based on ISAAR(CPF) - click here for an explanation of the fields.Prepared by: Anne Heywood
Created: 19 August 2003
Modified: 11 March 2004

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