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• unitedkingdom
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• North East Museums 87 photos & illustrations
• Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County 69 photos & illustrations
• Miami University Libraries - Digital Collections 31 photos & illustrations
• British Library 30 photos & illustrations
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 27 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 23 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 18 photos & illustrations
• Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection 14 photos & illustrations
• Florida Memory 13 photos & illustrations
• Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales 9 photos & illustrations
• Keene Public Library and the Historical Society of Cheshire County 5 photos & illustrations
• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 4 photos & illustrations

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Women's Army workers assembling gun sights at a workshop, Queensland, 1945

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  The Women’s Australian National Service (WANS) was inaugurated in 1940. Training for members of the WANS included air raid drills, first aid, basic military drills, and even shooting, signalling, and mechanics. In the period leading up to the formation of the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS), the WANS demonstrated that women were capable of filling roles traditionally filled by men. Sir Percy Spender, Australia’s Minister for the Army, considered women to be an underutilised resource in Australia’s war effort. Consequently, he approved the formation of the AWAS on 13 August 1941 with the objective of releasing more men into forward areas. Source: www.awm.gov.au/articles/encyclopedia/awas

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  And work of high merit has been carried out by women members of AEME. Hundreds of AWAS are in the corps, and they are very proud of their AEME colour patch. Some are University graduates. The Army has to rely on many complicated optical instruments for sighting long range artillery, field artillery, anti-aircraft artillery, and coast artillery. These instruments range from ordinary binoculars to complex construction. In all-optical predictors of most work the AWAS has shown extraordinary skill. The girls have also been especially useful in instrument making, armature winding, and other work requiring delicacy of touch, quickness of movement, and perseverance. Source: The Arguse, 20 Jan 1945 trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/1108145

A group of men in a Metro shaft

from North East Museums

• Rhubus said:

  Clean white overalls. Brand new wellington boots. You can guarantee that this lot have never had a blister in their lives - they're managers.

Gordon Gilmore street sweeping, Sydney, 29 August 1945

from State Library of New South Wales

• covid convict said:

  nla.gov.au/nla.obj-466804121/view?sectionId=nla.obj-48192... - a number of other pics from this series appeared in Pix on 8th September, 1945 in a pictorial on Gordon Gilmoure, driver of one of the Sydney City Council Engineer's Department's 'Elgin' street sweepers...