Carter, Doris Jessie (1912 - 1999)

Doris Carter became Australia's first women's field athlete to compete at an Olympic Games when she placed sixth in the high jump at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. She also represented Australia in international hockey, and was General Manager of the Australian Women's Team at the Melbourne Olympic Games in 1956. A Wing Officer and Director of the Women's RAAF, she was the first woman to fly both the Canberra Bomber and the Vampire Jet. Her proudest moment was in 1996 shen she co-led the Melbourne ANZAC Day parade

Chronology

1929 - 1941	Teacher with the Victorian Education Department
1936	Participated at the Berlin Olympic Games - Track and Field Athletics - placed sixth in the high jump
1937 - 1939	Played interstate hockey
1938	Represented Australia at the Empire Games, Sydney
1941 - 1946	Member of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF)
1946	Officer-in-charge of the WAAAF Victory Contingent to London
1946 - 1948	Department of Post-War Reconstruction
1948 - 1951	Officer-in-charge of the Child and Youth Migration with the Department of Immigration, London
1951 - 1960	Director of the Women's Royal Australian Air Force
1952 - 1961	President of the Australian Women's Amateur Athletic Union
1956	Manager of the Australian Women's Team at the Olympic Games, Melbourne
13 June 1957	Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire
1960	General secretary of the YWCA, Melbourne
1963	Member of the Board of Trustees at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra
1971	Member of the National Fitness Council, Victoria

Membership

• Soroptimist International of the South West Pacific (SISWP)

Related Corporate Bodies

• Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) (1941 - 1947)

  [1941 - 1946]

Books

• Daniels, Stephanie and Tedder, Anita, A Proper Spectacle: Women Olympians 1900-1936, Celebrating 100 years of women in the Olympics, Walla Walla Press with ZeNaNa Press and the Centre for Olympic Studies, UTS, Petersham, 2000. [ Details... ]

See also

• Legge, J S (ed.), Who's who in Australia, 1971, 20 edn, The Herald and Weekly Times, Melbourne, 1971, 1024 pp. [ Details... ]
• Thomson, Joyce A, The WAAAF in Wartime Australia, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic., 1992, 422 pp. [ Details... ]