Women's Auxiliary Transport Service (WATS) members having lunch during a training field day in Ipswich, 1942

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TitleWomen's Auxiliary Transport Service (WATS) members having lunch during a training field day in Ipswich, 1942Date Created1942

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City & StateIpswich, QueenslandGeo Coordinatesnot specified

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Description“The Australian Women’s Land Army as a national organisation was established on 27 July 1942 under the jurisdiction of the Director-General of Manpower, with a view to offsetting, in some measure, the serious depletion in the strength of the rural labour force due to service enlistments and transfers to munitions and other war factories. Before this date, privately sponsored land armies, modelled on the Women’s Land Army in Great Britain, were operating in some of the Australian states […] among these [was] the Women’s Auxiliary Transport Service in Queensland.” (Information from: Adam-Smith, Patsy, Australian Women at War, Melbourne, Nelson, 1984)

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EventsWorld War II (1939-1945)Government & Non-Government OrganisationsWomen's Auxiliary Transport ServiceWATSAustralian Women's Land ArmyDefining Tulmur | IpswichOn The Homefront: FashionOn The Homefront: DefenceOn The Homefront: FoodOn The Homefront: Labour & WorkTaxonomy20th Century | 1940s | 1942

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SubjectsUniformsPicnicsWar workersWomenPeopleTraining

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World War II (1939-1945)

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Women's Auxiliary Transport Service

Defining Tulmur | Ipswich

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