Australian Government Office for Women Australian Women in War project
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Australian Women in War Project
Australian Women in War provides information concerning women and their contribution during the conflicts in which Australia has been involved and since. The project is a joint initiative of the New South Wales Local Committee of the Australian Women's Archives Project (AWAP) and the Australian Government Department of Veterans' Affairs.
In April 2002 the Department of Veterans' Affairs invited New South Wales Women's ex-service associations to form a working party. Association members, along with representatives from consulting institutions such as the Australian War Memorial and State Records New South Wales, met in October and November 2002 and commenced the task of recording the history of the Associations.
In collaboration with the Commemorations Section of the Department of Veterans' Affairs it was decided that the project should trace the involvement of women during Australia's military conflicts. The initial funding from the Department of Veterans' Affairs 'Saluting Their Service' program covered entries nominated by the working party. The Office for Women provided additional funding which enabled an Australia wide focus.
Foundation Supporter of
- Abbott, Joan Stevenson (Judy) (1899 - 1970)
- Appleford, Alys (Alice) Ross (1891 - 1968)
- Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
- Australian Servicewomen's Memorial
- Australian Women's Army Service Association (Victoria) Inc. (1950s - )
- Australian Women's Army Service Association (WA) Inc. (1947 - )
- Australian Women's Land Army (AWLA) (1942 - 1945)
- Bage, Jessie Eleanor
- Bandler, Faith Ida Lessing (c. 1918 - )
- Best, Amelia Martha (1900 - 1979)
- Board, Ruby Willmet (1880 - 1963)
- Bowen, Esther Gwendolyn (Stella) (1893 - 1947)
- Boye, Ruby (Olive) (1891 - 1990)
- Bruce, Minnie (Mary) Grant (1878 - 1958)
- Carlton, Eileen Grace (Sally)
- Darling, Margaret Florence (1923 - 2010)
- Douglas, Mary Stewart (May) (1904 - 1999)
- Dynon, Moira Lenore (1920 - 1976)
- Eales, Jean (1915 - 1989)
- Electrical Association for Women
- Feltham, Juanita Cecila
- Fitzpatrick, Kathleen Elizabeth (1905 - 1990)
- Freeman, Joan (1918 - 1998)
- Goddé, Mary (1921 - 2000)
- Gunn, Jeannie (Mrs Aeneas) (1870 - 1961)
- Hammer, Julie Margaret (1955 - )
- Heysen, Nora (1911 - 2003)
- Heywood, Irene Teresa (1923 - 2004)
- Hodgson, Agnes
- Irving, Sybil Howy (1897 - 1973)
- Jeffrey, Agnes (Betty) (1908 - 2000)
- Kathleen Best Memorial Gates
- Kenny, Elizabeth (1880 - 1952)
- Kirwan, Joan Dorothy (1924 - 2003)
- Kokoda Track Memorial Walkway Rose Garden Memorial
- Laidlaw, Annie Ina (1889 - 1978)
- Lynch, Aileen Elizabeth (1898 - 1983)
- Mayo, Edith (Janet) Allen (1915 - 1995)
- McEwan, Kathleen (Kitty) Agnes Rose (1894 - 1969)
- Moss, Alice Frances Mabel (1868 - 1948)
- Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920 - 1993)
- Palmer, Helen Gwynneth (1917 - 1979)
- Pender, Beryl Elizabeth (1902 - 1974)
- Perkins, Jessie May
- Plumb, Gwendoline Jean (Gwen) (1912 - 2002)
- Provan, Frances Betty (1911 - 1963)
- RAAF Association (Vic. Division) - WAAAF Branch (1946 - )
- Solly, Elsie Hope (1924 - 2007)
- Stevens, Marion (1920 - )
- Syer, Ada Corbitt (Mickey) (1910 - 1991)
- Taylor, Marjory Alice Hamlet (1920 - 2006)
- The Sybil Irving Memorial Fund Committee
- Utting, Margaret (Peg) Vivian Moile (1922 - )
- Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD) (1914 - )
- Whitlam, Margaret Elaine (1919 - 2012)
- WRANS Memorial HMAS Harman
- WRANS Memorial Window
- Young, Wilma Elizabeth Forster Oram (1916 - 2001)
