Flying Officer Clara Lee, RNZAF, was the first woman doctor to wear a service uniform in New Zealand. She was an English woman, who lived in New Zealand intermittently for four years prior to this. In 1942 F.O. Lee was serving at a North Island station and the WAAFs were under her special care. She graduated at Liverpool University and in 1934 went to Australia where she took a series of appointments. She married Te Kuiti farmer George Lacey Lee, who was killed in action in 1941 during the Libyan campaign and awarded the Military Cross. Corresponded with NAR Barrer from Nelson 1943.
Lee, Clara (Dr), active 1934-1942
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Personalities - Women - Surnames, Le, Ko; Theodore Roosevelt
Date: [ca 1930s-1950s]
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-107
Description: Mainly portraits, with some other photographs included, published (or considered for publication) in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1930s-1950s. All have names recorded on the back and most have date/dates of publication. Names of most of the identified subjects entered in Name field. Includes unpublished group photograph of the Le Lievre sisters - Mrs L Morrison of Darfield; Miss E M Le Lievre of Akaroa; Mrs D L Moore of Le Bons Bay; Mrs W Newton of Little River (article published 23 or 29 Nov 1950) Also photograph with caption of Barbara Cartland's daughter Mrs Gerald Legge, 1957; Miss Leigh of Wanganui, 1940. Series of photographs of President & Mrs Roosevelt, their family, and Washington Quantity: 110 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
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Correspondence
Date: 1943
From: Barrer, Nina Agatha Rosamund, 1879-1965 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0182-083
Description: Includes - The Affair of Dr Clara Lee (1943) - The Cause that lacks assistance and The Wrong that needs resistance Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.