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Major Helen Ryan, founder and commandant of the Women's National Emergency Legion, formed m 1938, and how assisting the forces in various areas arrived in Cairns on an official visit yesterday. She spent a busy afternoon testing women's transport drivers who are anxious to assist in the war effort. Any woman interested in this form of service should communicate with Major Helen Ryan at Motor Transport Corps in Lake-street, Cairns. The service is voluntary, but allowances are made to workers who are not sent out of their own district unless they wish to transfer. Major Helen Ryan at present is in charge of the W.N.E.L. transport corps and clerical workers attached to the U.S. forces in North Queensland. She is the wife of Dr. William D. Ryan, of Brisbane and has spent the last five years preparing and training women for war work. She stated that she was thrilled to see how wholeheartedly the women of the North had responded to the call to assist in this national emergency. There could be no failure when the woman were so staunchly helping the men at the front. Source: Cairns Post 20 Feb 1943, P. 4 trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/42378834?browse=ndp%3A...

The first 27 female conductors started work on the trams and buses in October 1942. By June 1943 there 619 employed in Sydney and 97 in Newcastle. TRAINING WOMEN FOR TRAM WORK Assistant conductresses who will soon appear on Melbourne trams and buses will commence practical training at Hawthorn depot next week. They will be instructed in the arts of boarding movlng trams, maintaining balance in swaying carriages, punching of tickets and necessary clerical work. All assistant conductresses will be wives of tramway men who are at present overseas. Should the experiment succeed the board may decide to greatly expand the role of women assistants to meet staffing difficulties. OPINION POLL Majority In Favour Of Women Conductors Employment of women conductors on trams and buses is strongly approved throughout Australia, according to a Gallup Poll taken in June. War-time employment of women on jobs ordinarily done by men is one of the questions of the hour. In its first poll, taken last September, Australian Public Opinion Polls (The Gallup Method) found that two out of three people with opinions on the subject favoured equal pay for men and women doing the same work. Source: busaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=52592

Some good information about the scouts and the crash here - www.greatwarforum.org/topic/213990-air-accident-dublin-19...

Here's the account of the presentation of the Silver Cross to the scouts which appeared in the Irish Times on 5th December 1919

A Lt. Goodnoh was placed 2nd in the 220yds at the Royal Air Force (Ireland) Sports held at Landsdowne road on Saturday 9th August 1919 (Dublin Daily Express - Monday 11 August 1919).

John Spooner beachcomber australia Thanks, both of you. Never mind a Silver Cross. They should have been given all the badges! And every Camp ever after must have been very dull affairs by comparison.

According to RAF records, Scott Tracey Goodnoh, born about 1894, service date 17th June 1917.

Further delving finds 6-year-old Scott T Goodnoh in the 1900 US census, in Hartford, Connecticut, and 17-year-old American Scott Goodnoh in Quebec in the Canadian 1911 census. Finally in Canadian death registers, Scott Goodnoh died aged 97 on 4/7/1991 in Montreal.