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Women's Emergency Signalling Corps members at C...

Women's Emergency Signalling Corps members at Castle Hill c1939

Reproduced courtesy of the

Ex-Wrans Association NSW

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McKenzie, Violet

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Signalling War Women World War II

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Women's Emergency Signalling Corps

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Ex-Wrans Association NSW

McKenzie, Violet

A pioneer in Australian radio and electrical engineering, Violet McKenzie had a lifetime commitment to technical education and training, especially for women.

Signalling

War

Women

World War II

Women's Emergency Signalling Corps

Training school formed to teach women to use telegraphic signalling, which ended up training over 12,000 servicemen and women during World War II.

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Castle Hill

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North-western suburb which was a Government Farm at the turn of the nineteenth century, and later the location of many orchards and market gardens, which have since given way to residential development.