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The Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) was the women's branch of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). In 1941, fourteen members of the civilian Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC) were recruited for wireless telegraphy work at the Royal Australian Navy Wireless/Transmitting Station Canberra , as part of a trial to free up men for ...
The RANNS was disbanded 1948 but the demand for nurses was so great that the organisation was reformed in November 1948. In June 1984 the RANNS and the other female branch of the RAN, the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, were incorporated into the permanent force and all female nurses became members of the nursing branch of the RAN.
Hughes still took some convincing. After McKenzie threatened to take her offer to the Air Force instead, the urgent need for trained telegraphists prevailed, and on 21 April a Navy Office letter authorised the entry of women into the Navy. [37] This was the beginning of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service – the WRANS.
McClemans enlisted in the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) in 1943 during the Second World War. She entered the first WRANS officer training course at HMAS Cerberus in Westernport, Victoria, [3] and rose to the rank of chief officer and was appointed Director of the WRANS from 1944. [1] [8] [9] [4] [10] [3] [11]
Women have served in Australian armed forces since 1899. [2] Until World War II women were restricted to the Australian Army Nursing Service. This role expanded in 1941–42 when the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Australian Army and Royal Australian Air Force established female branches in which women took on a range of support roles. While ...
The high demand for personnel in the Second World War led to the establishment of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) branch in 1942, where over 3,000 women served in shore-based positions. The WRANS was disbanded in 1947, but then re-established in 1951 during the Cold War.
The Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service (RANNS) was formed in 1942. Surgeon Captain William Carr , who was director of Australia's naval medical services, oversaw its creation. [ 3 ] He chose Laidlaw, who he knew socially, to lead it and she was appointed as superintending sister with an equivalent rank of lieutenant commander in April 1942 ...
Barbara Denise MacLeod, AM (15 February 1929 – 9 January 2000) [1] was an Australian naval officer who served as director of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS). [2] Born in Bunbury, Western Australia, MacLeod graduated from the Western Australia Teachers College and taught primary school for two years. [1]