After War - Women Remember

Grace and Rita speak about their ongoing  work  -  after the war -   with the War Widows Guild and Rita's service on the Board at Morshead Home. Also recorded is  a moving recollection of the day Peace was declared.

http://www.archive.org/details/WwiiServingWomensReflectionsWarWidowsGuildmorsheadBoardpeaceDeclared

New Homes: New Living Arrangements

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:

http://www.archive.org/editxml.php?type=audio&edit_item=RaisingChildrenInTheNewSuburbOfRevesbyWwiiReminiscence

Stepping Back, Stepping Further!

Each step, each discovery, each new part of the journey! At the commencement of A TRACK WINDING BACK time was spent on outtings, getting to know residents. What was their current life path like? Where had they travelled - and  how did they view their life journey? And what about the tracks that happened to join up again once more? Here's  Grace, traversing the forecourt of the National Museuem of Australia. A Warrant Officer during WWII, Grace's duties included keeping the women recruits in marching step on the parade ground at Duntroon Royal Military College in Canberra. What is fascinating is the way past and present paths cross - and often interlink. Listen to  Grace and Rita's paradeground stories and their account of  living together during war time...all those steps ago!