Peg recounts moving in with her sister because of a fear of squatters moving into the house when her brother-in law left for the war: http://www.archive.org/details/WomensLivingArrangementsWwiiwilloughbysquatters
While Grace and Rita talk about learning to live together with other women when enlisted at Duntroon, Marge remembers raising two children on her own: "you had to be mother and father," and cooking cakes in a makeshift kerosene oven in the laundry - in the then new suburb of Revesby:
At http://www.archive.org/details/DuntroonMilitaryCollegemarriedLifeWwiiPostWwii Rita on married life at Duntroon and getting used to Army food.
Images above: Billie's Queenslander; Holiday accommodation snapshot from Betty's album.
Meanwhile, away from home, servicemen like Kevin were adapting to what he calls "a gypsy life"; constantly on the move and a long way from an ordinary way of life in the Australian suburbs.
Images above: Billie's Queenslander; Holiday accommodation snapshot from Betty's album.
Meanwhile, away from home, servicemen like Kevin were adapting to what he calls "a gypsy life"; constantly on the move and a long way from an ordinary way of life in the Australian suburbs.
Images from Kevin's albums of the Middle East.
