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Women working at a munitions factory in Queensland during World War II from State Library of Queensland uploaded April 2024
Women's Army workers assembling gun sights at a workshop, Queensland, 1945 from State Library of Queensland uploaded April 2024
Most original costume at the St Patricks Day skating carnival Toowoomba 1909 from State Library of Queensland uploaded March 2020
image from us military from SDASM Archives uploaded March 2018
British Library digitised image from page 123 of "The Tragedy of the Korosko, etc [A tale.]" from British Library uploaded November 2016
Gen. W.A. White (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded June 2015
Singapore Armed Forces Medical Corps Headquarters, Feb 2014 from Navy Medicine uploaded March 2014
British Library digitised image from page 252 of "Out with the Olde Voyagers" from British Library uploaded December 2013
British Library digitised image from page 177 of "The Duke's Ward: a romance of Old Kent, etc" from British Library uploaded December 2013
British Library digitised image from page 18 of "Woodland Romances; or, Fables and Fancies" from British Library uploaded December 2013
British Library digitised image from page 17 of "Woodland Romances; or, Fables and Fancies" from British Library uploaded December 2013
British Library digitised image from page 354 of "Histoire de France. Deuxième édition" from British Library uploaded December 2013
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Revolucionarios Haciendo Fuego (LOC)
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Women working at a munitions factory in Queensland during World War II
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Vesna Verencevic said:
The former Southern Guardhouse was constructed between 1941 and 1942. It was an important part of the most northerly munitions works constructed in Australia during the Second World War. At its peak the factory employed around 3000 workers and traffic in and out of the factory was immense. As the factory was an important and highly vulnerable establishment guardhouses were established as checkpoints through which all pedestrian and vehicular traffic flowed thus ensuring the security of the site. Since the war the building has been converted to serve other purposes. It is presently accommodates a picture framing business. At its peak the Rocklea Munitions Works employed approximately 3,000 people. The larger Footscray factory in Melbourne, by comparison, employed over 9,000. The peak for Rocklea was reached in May 1943 when 926 men and 1,573 women were recorded as engaged in factory work. An additional 500 men and women worked in the associated areas of Army inspection, food services, medical and welfare. Absenteeism was a problem. The reasons blamed for this included the introduction of night shifts, the regimentation of the work, industrial fatigue and lack of proper meals. Source: heritage.brisbane.qld.gov.au/heritage-places/1406
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Vesna Verencevic said:
During World War II (WWII), Australia faced a dilemma: Many women were eager to do their bit and contribute their skills to the “war effort”, but there was still widespread resistance to the notion of a woman doing a “man’s job” – surely they could not handle the physical or mental exertion and maintain their “femininity”? Meanwhile, many able-bodied men were refused enlistment to the armed forces because their occupations were considered essential to civil defence or other critical services and industries. As the war progressed and came closer to Australia’s shores, this need for more “manpower” grew even more pressing. Eventually it was conceded that women’s services would be required, though one question was still perplexing some: what exactly could women do? Source: www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/australian-women-work-wwii-keep-c...