A portrait of Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) Gunner Norma Dempsey, 54th Searchlight Battery, Royal Australian Artillery.

New recruits being instructed in respirator drill at the 8th Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) Training Company, Enoggera, Queensland, 5 January 1944.

Identified personnel are: Privates Taylor (2); Phillips (3); Fleetwood (4); McIntyre (5); Ziegler (6); Molin (7); Nugent (8); Neville (9); Irving (10); Berg (11); Moore (12); Hill (13).

Members of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) at the 2nd Australian General Hospital, Gaza Ridge, Palestine. 19 November 1940.

Driver Macintosh servicing the staff car she drives in the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS), 9 March 1942.

Sponging a malaria patient, Norah Heysen, October 1945.

The scene is at the Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit at Redlynch near Cairns, Queensland, Private Hazel Lugge, Australian Army Medical Women’s Service (AAMWS) is doing the sponging, and the patient is Private Ken Glover.

Captain Nora Heysen, official war artist, Army Military History Section, in her studio at 138 Flinders Street, Melbourne, Victoria, completing paintings she commenced in New Guinea.

Norah Heysen was one of three Australian women appointed as official war artists – Sybil Craig, Nora Heysen and Stella Bowen. Heysen and Bowen were sent overseas to record the activities of Australian servicemen in New Guinea and Britain. Sybil Craig remained in Australia recording homefront activities including factory and voluntary workers.