AWAS on Rottnest - WF3032 HARRISON (married LINAKER)
Documentation relating to the AWAS service of Yvonne Irene Linaker (nee Harrison) from Kellerberrin
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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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Nearest geotagged records:
- AWAS on Rottnest - WF90739 MASSINGHAM (0.12km away)
- Colour photo of exterior of Kellerberrin Farmers Co-op. View of Sewell St/ Massingham St Corner (0.13km away)
- Black and White photograph. Massingham Coop on corner of Sewell St and Massingham Street (0.13km away)
- Colour photo of exterior of Kellerberrin Farmers Co-op. View of Massingham street frontage (0.14km away)
- World War 1, Australia, Western Australia, 461 AMPHLETT, 10 Light Horse (0.14km away)
- View of Massingham Street from West to East (0.14km away)
- World War 1, Europe, 3215 NEWPORT, 28 Battalion, 1919 (0.18km away)
- World War 1, Australia, Western Australia, 1181 LYNCH, 10 Light Horse (0.19km away)
- Black and White photograph. Kellerberrin Railway Barracks on the corner of Leake and Bedford Streets during 1963 flood (0.19km away)
- Black and White photograph Kellerberrin Hotel on the corner of Ripper St and Massingham St looking west (0.23km away)
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