Girl Guides preparing for part of Mavis Parkinson Shield, Ipswich, 1952

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TitleGirl Guides preparing for part of Mavis Parkinson Shield, Ipswich, 1952Date Created1952

Location

City & StateIpswich, QueenslandGeo Coordinatesnot specified

Description

DescriptionYearly competition between Ipswich Girl Guides. Mavis Parkinson was born in Ipswich in 1915. Mavis attended the Ipswich Girls’ Grammar School. She was a dedicated worshipper and Sunday School Teacher at St Paul's Anglican Church and from an early age wanted to be a missionary. She completed her Teacher Training in Brisbane and in 1940 was appointed to teach at the Anglican Mission School at Gona in New Guinea. In 1942, the Japanese invaded New Guinea. Mavis and fellow missionaries, May Hayman and Father James Benson, fled into the jungle. The end of their story is detailed in the Webb Report, an inquiry carried out after the war. The missionaries joined a group of soldiers heading towards Port Moresby but the party was fired on and in the confusion the two women became separated from the group. They were captured by the Japanese and were taken to an abandoned coffee house near Popondetta, bayonetted and their bodies thrown into a shallow grave. They are now buried at Old Sangara Mission. (Information taken from Queensland Government: Department of Communities, Office for Women ‘Our women, our State’ 2010, retrieved 5 January 2011, from http://www.women.qld.gov.au/q150/1910/index.html#item-mavis-parkinson )

Connections

Government & Non-Government OrganisationsGirl GuidesPeople & FamiliesMavis Doreen Parkinson (1915-1942)Taxonomy20th Century | 1950s | 1952

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SubjectsCompetitionsCampfiresUniforms

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Reference IDqips-2010-04-20-0068p.jpgAsset TypeImages - JpegImages, Maps and Artefacts (Trove mapping field)imagePhysical DescriptionPrintCopyright NoticeCreated prior to 1st January 1955 and as such copyright has expired. Moral rights subsist and the item should be correctly attributed and its integrity preserved.

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Girl Guides preparing for part of Mavis Parkinson Shield, Ipswich, 1952