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Byth, Elsie Frances

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Born: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

During World War II Elsie Byth was an executive and/or committee member of a number of organisations. President of the National Council of Women of Australia in 1944 and the National Council of Women of Queensland (1940-1945). She was vice-president of the Australian Comforts Fund in 1940 and the Women’s Voluntary National Register; member of the management committee for the Queensland Patriotic Fund; member of the War Saving committee and the War Accommodation committee. Married to solicitor George Byth in 1917, they had four children. Her hobbies included music, flowers and fine needlework.


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Alternative Names:
  • Gasteen, Elsie (maiden name, - 10 August 1917)

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10 August 1917

Married George L Byth, they had 3 sons and 1 daughter

1933 - 1936

President of the Brisbane Women's Club

1940

Vice-president of the Australian Comforts Fund

1940 - 1945

President of the National Council of Women of Queensland

1944

President of the National Council of Women of Australia

 
Sources used to compile this entry: Chisholm, Alec H (ed.), Who's Who in Australia, 1947, The Herald and Weekly Times, Melbourne, 1947, p. 198.
 
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See also

  • Chisholm, Alec H (ed.), Who's Who in Australia, 1947, The Herald and Weekly Times, Melbourne, 1947, 926 pp. [ Details... ]
  • National Council of Women of Queensland, The first fifty years in the history of the National Council of Women of Queensland, Brisbane, 1959, 72 pp. [ Details... ]

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