Women and the military

Armed Forces and women

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Women members of the Limited Service Volunteers, Woodbourne Air Force Base, Blenheim - ...

Date: [ca 31 Mar 1984]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Nicholson, John, active 1997

Reference: EP/1984/1419-F

Description: Women members of the Limited Service Volunteers at Woodbourne Air Force Base, Blenheim. They are about to return sleeping bags they won't need during the next 14 weeks. Photographs taken circa 31 March 1984 by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

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Original war diary of NZ WAAC (Welfare Section)

Date: Aug 1947-Sep 1948

From: New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage : Oral history project questionnaires relating to World War II, the occupation of Japan, and the Korean War

Reference: MS-Papers-11799-10

Description: Photocopy of original war diary of the Welfare Section of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps when serving in Japan as part of J-Force. Includes daily intelligence summaries, monthly summaries, social reports and some correspondence. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript (Photocopy)

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Interview with Cornelia Beentjes

Date: 29 Oct 1999

From: New Zealand Netherlands Foundation oral history project, stage two

By: Smaal, Elizabeth, 1948?-; Beentjes, Cornelia Maria, 1952-

Reference: OHInt-0484-07

Description: Cornelia Beentjes was born in Indonesia in 1952. Gives details of her family, reasons for her parent's departure from the Netherlands, life in Indonesia and why her family came to New Zealand. Describes her father's jobs at Evans Bay hydrostation, Awapuni and Monowai as an engineer and talks about the communities they lived in. Recalls her mother being told by the school that they must not speak Dutch in the home. Comments on tensions between Dutch and Kiwi cultures. Considers that she is a New Zealander. Describes visits of friends to her home and their comments on Dutch things in the home. Recalls contact with other Dutch families and visits to the Netherlands over the years. Recalls her primary school days at Awapuni, Monowai, Invercargill and St Catherine's College. Describes boarding at St Catherine's and her employment options. Talks about joining the Navy as a Wren, accepting a commission, being a Supply Officer and being promoted to Commander. Talks about the treatment of women in the Navy and her determination to see that gender is not an issue. Compares her work attitude with the kiwi `she'll be right' attitude. Discusses her colleague's reactions to her Dutchness. Talks about her hobbies. Comments on her use and knowledge of the Dutch language. Discusses multiculturalism. Interviewer(s) - Elizabeth Smaal Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2709.

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Photographer unknown: Women in the Armed Services

Date: 1939-1945

Reference: PAColl-6618

Description: Three images of women's army life: a woman cleaning a 1938 Ford military car; two women inside their hut, one putting on lipstick and the other brushing her hair; and a group of women marching between rows of huts. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-019079 to 019081 Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

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CORSO: Nicaragua must survive. Send donations to CORSO Nicaragua Must Survive Campaign,...

Date: 1986

From: [Posters of A2 size relating to international and diplomatic affairs, and overseas events. 1980-1989]

By: CORSO

Reference: Eph-D-INTERNATIONAL-1986-02

Description: Campaign poster shows a photograph of a smiling young woman breatfeeding a baby as she stands in a landscape, wearing a gun slung over her right shoulder. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint?, 520 x 415 mm. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-2031, Photographic Archive, Oral History Archive..

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Howell, Althea M :Photographs of Women's Auxiliary Air Force

Date: 1942-1944

By: Howell, Althea M, active 1944

Reference: PAColl-6627

Description: Photographs of W.A.L. Althea M Howell (W2941) and colleagues (including Thea Harris) in the WAAF in Auckland, Hobsonville and Te Rapa, 1942-1944. Chiefly group portraits of WAAF's in uniform, but also includes one of tennis players and one of a marching team. Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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Interview with Isobel Conning

Date: 10 Sep 1992

From: Women in World War II Part II

By: Conning, Isobel Harriet, 1922-

Reference: OHInt-0064/16

Description: Isobel Conning was born in Auckland on 12 July 1922. Describes her childhood as the youngest of a large family growing up in Auckland during the Depression. Notes that treats were rare but that the family had a simple bach on Rangitoto Island. Describes holidays there and a love of swimming. Talks about Sunday School and church. Recalls leaving school, becoming an office worker and a social life which included going to movies and milk bars. Talks about joining the Women's National Service Corps which was run along the same lines as the Army. Notes its emphasis on discipline and drill. Describes being in a group of one of eight women who were the first to be called up into the Army. Talks about her work as personal assistant to the Quartermaster including stocktaking trips to Motutapu Island. Describes batteries within their regiment and their stations. Recalls the physical condition of allied forces when they were repatriated from Japanese prisoner of war camps. Comments on post war housing shortages and transit camps. Talks about the war-time service of her brother Frank Simmons. Comments on the sense of duty during the war and notes that there was also fun. Talks briefly about her marriages to Stanley Elwood in 1947 and Mervyn Conning in 1964. Venue - Auckland : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Sarah Dalton Venue - Selwyn Village, Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004792; OHC-004793; OHC-004794 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 859. Photograph of Isobel and Frank Simmons cabout 1942; photograph of Isobel and Des Conning about 1992

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