Byth, Elsie Frances

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.

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

Events

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

Presided

• National Council of Women of Australia (1931 - )

  [1944 - ]

• National Council of Women of Queensland (1905 - )

  [1940 - 1945]

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... ]