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Australian Women and the Second World War: Great Debates (Student activity), (Educational)

The Great Debates series is designed to assist teachers with classroom investigations of how war and conflict have affected Australians. This debate resource focuses upon the effects the Second World…

Australian Women in War: Service, Courage and Care (Book), (Student activity), (Educational)

This book provides a look at the roles Australian women have carried out during wartime, as well as the effects wars have had upon those women.

Elsie Jean Dalyell

Elsie Dalyell was born in Newtown in Sydney in 1881. She attended Sydney Girls High School after which she became a student-teacher while studying arts and science at the University of Sydney.

Laura Margaret (Fowler) Hope

Laura Fowler was born in May 1868 in Adelaide.

Mary Clementina De Garis

Mary De Garis was born in Charlton, Victoria in 1881. She was educated at the Methodist Ladies' College in Melbourne where she was dux of her year in 1898.
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