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AWAS on Rottnest - W45834 LIMPUS (married MANNING)
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Overview
Documentation relating to the AWAS service of W45834 private Gwendolene Gladys Manning (nee Limpus) of Mosman Park
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Registration number
cwa-org-32-54-158
Contextual Information
The Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) was formed in late 1941, two years after the outbreak of World War 2. Australian women had been agitating for some time for the chance to join the War Effort. They wanted to do “real work, not knit sock for the men.” The primary aim of AWAS was to release men from some military duties so they could be deployed in fighting units.
Initial recruitment was for duties associated with “women’s work”, clerks, cooks and typists, still being done my male soldiers. Beginning in early 1942 as invading Japanese swept through the South West Pacific towards Australia, many more military trades were opened to women including signals, weapons plotting, drivers, which involved close contact with the coast defence systems on Rottnest.
This collection brings together the stories of women in the Australian Women’s Army Service who were deployed on Rottnest Island as part of the defences of Fortress Fremantle from 30 September 1942 onward. The content is based on a “Saluting Their Service” exhibition developed by the Rottnest Voluntary Guides on the 80th Anniversary of this deployment. The exhibition was presented at Kingstown Barracks, Rottnest Island from 8-9 October 2022 and at the Australian Army Museum of Western Australia from 9 – 17 November 2022
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Geotag
-32.014545168244, 115.75874121044
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- World War 2, Australia Western Australia Mosman Park, Leighton Battery, 1942 (0.39km away)
- World War 2, Australia, Western Australia, Mosman Park, Buckland Hill, Heavy Anti-Aircraft, 1943 (0.39km away)
- POSTER - Fortress Fremantle Graphic 5.25 inch Batteries (0.41km away)
- World War 2, Australia, Western Australia, Buckland Hill, Leighton Battery,1943 (0.41km away)
- Australia, HMAS Brisbane, 6 inch Mk XI Guns (0.41km away)
- World War 2, Australia, Western Australia, Mosman Park, Buckland Hill, Heavy Anti-AircraftBattery,Australian Women’s Army Service, 1943 (0.41km away)
- World War 1, Australia, Western Australia, BUCKINGHAM, 10 Light Horse (0.43km away)
- World War 2, Australia, Western Australia, Mosman Park, Buckland Hill, Leighton Battery, 1943 (0.44km away)
- World War 2, Australia, Western Australia, North Fremantle, Leighton Battery, 1943 (0.46km away)
- AWAS on Rottnest - WF94311 BRADSHAW (0.51km away)
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Australian Army Museum of Western Australia
Australian Army Museum of Western Australia
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AWAS on Rottnest - WF90739 MASSINGHAM
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AWAS on Rottnest - WF90083 McALLAN
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AWAS on Rottnest - WF96321 MacBEATH
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AWAS on Rottnest - WF96365 McCABE
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AWAS on Rottnest - WF94897 McGILLIVRAY
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AWAS service on Rottnest - WF54229 McKAY
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AWAS on Rottnest - WF3194 McKENNA
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AWAS on Rottnest - WF3054 MESTON
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AWAS on Rottnest - WF53064 MILLEN
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AWAS on Rottnest - WF95020 MOLE
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AWAS on Rottnest - WF96675 MORPHEW
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AWAS on Rottnest - W45321 PEARS (married PENISTAN)
