P01831.014
Image copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
- ID number
- P01831.014
- Photographer
- Adams, S H
- Object type
- Black & white - Print silver gelatin
- Place made
- Australia: Queensland, North Queensland, Innisfail
- Date made
- March 1944
- Credit line
- Donor J Smith
- Collection
- Photograph
- Description
- Group portrait of members of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) and Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS) serving with the Australian Chemical Warfare Field and Experimental Section. The unit, later known as the 1st Field Trials Company, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), carried out experiments on the effects of mustard gas and other chemical warfare agents.
Identified, left to right, back row: Cynthia Johnston (Assistant - Protective Clothing Section), 'Tex' Morton (Cook), Mary Brady (Cook), Sergeant Chapman (Head Cook), Diana West (Labratory Assistant - Chemistry Section), Fay Brazill (Physiologists Assistant).
Second row: Alice Carvosso (Laboratory Assistant - Chemistry Section), Peg Nelson (Physiologists Assistant), Beryl Wood (Mess Assistant), unidentified Mess Assistant, Dorothy Griffin (Secretary - Chemistry Section), Lieutenant Simondson (AWAS Officer in charge of Barracks), unidentified Mess Assistant, unidentified Mess Assistant, Sylvia Stoltz with dog (Meteorological Assistant), Betty Roberts (Mess Assistant), unidentified Mess Assistant, VF397998 Corporal Jean L. Wilkin (later Smith) (Secretary - Physiology Section).
Front row: Maisie Dart (Regimental Aid Post), Fay Copley (Laboratory Assistant - Chemistry Section) (seated on ground), Cynthia Collins (Laboratory Assistant - Chemistry Section), Betty Green (Mess Assistant), 'Tommy' Kennedy (Mess Assistant), Carmel Diviny (Mess Assistant), Francis Abraham (Mess Assistant), Olive 'Lukie' Lucas (Physiologists Assistant).
