| Title: |
Nancy Ormsby
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Victoria. State Library. Special Collections. Australian Manuscripts Collection
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| Collection: |
Victorians at War - Oral History Project
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| Description: |
After traveling around a lot as a child, Nancy's family settled in Gippsland, Victoria. She was working in a private hospital at Korumburra doing housework and monitoring the wards when the war started. Nancy went to live with her sister in Clifton Hill and worked in a cigarette factory. She tried to join the army (Australian Women's Army Service) at aged 17 but was turned away because she was too young. She was allowed, however, to join the Australian Women's Land Army in May 1943 because they would take girls from the age of 17 with parental permission.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Speaker: |
Ormsby, Nancy
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Military personnel
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Organizations discussed: |
Australia. Army
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| Historical events discussed: |
World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
Australia; Oceania; Victoria, Australia
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Australia; Australia. Army; Australia--Armed Forces; Australia--History; Australia--Military policy; Oceania; Oral history; Victoria, Australia; Women soldiers--Australia; World War II, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female; World War, 1939-1945--Veterans; World War, 1939-1945--Women
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0026771-28946
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