Australia. Royal Australian Air Force. Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force.

Also known as
Australia. Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force.
W.A.A.A.F.
Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force.
Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF). (1941-1947)
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Armed services organisation
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The Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) was formed in March 1941 after considerable lobbying by women keen to serve and by the Chief of the Air Staff who wanted to release male personnel serving in Australia for service overseas. The WAAAF was the first and largest of the World War II Australian Women's Services. It was disbanded in December 1947.

During the early years of World War II the necessity to make use of women in many new avenues of employment became apparent. Despite resistance from some members of the War Cabinet, bureaucrats and the Service, in February 1941 the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) received approval to create the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF). Wireless telegraphists were urgently needed to assist in meeting a temporary deficiency of male wireless telegraphists.

A senior WAAAF officer was appointed from 24 February 1941 with more appointed from 10 March 1941 and a WAAAF Training Depot was established at Malvern, Melbourne. Recruiting commenced on 15 March 1941 and on 17 March the first nineteen airwomen reported at the Training Depot, ten of them being teleprinter operator trainees.

Although recruiting continued it was officially slowed down until Japan entered the war in December 1941. Following this event, the three Defence Services recommended the greater employment of women in order to release men for operational duties. By the end of 1941 some 1500 were serving. This number grew to a peak strength of 18,667 officers and airwomen by October 1944. They served in all states of Australia, from Cairns in Northern Queensland to Geraldton in Western Australia.

Airwomen were accepted into 73 different musterings (trades), including highly skilled technical employment on aircraft. In addition to telegraphists, women became armament workers, electricians, fitters, flight mechanics, fabricworkers, instrument makers and meteorological assistants, besides using skills in many clerical, medical, transport, catering, equipment, signals and radar fields of employment. Over 700 women held commissioned rank and like airwomen, worked in a great variety of administrative, technical and professional tasks. A number commanded units in operations rooms, at General Douglas MacArthur's Headquarters in Brisbane dealing with intelligence matters, at Operational Units, in RAAF Hospitals, Aircraft Depots, Radar Stations, RAAF Bases – wherever they were needed, they served.

Airwomen were paid two-thirds of RAAF male pay for equivalent positions. The officers were paid a good deal less than male officers of equal rank.

Although members were enrolled when the service was first formed, the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force was constituted as a part of the Permanent Air Force by the Air Force (Women's Services) Regulations (Statutory Rules 1943, No. 69) which came into operation on 24 March 1943. In due course members were given the choice of signing a form of enlistment or attestation in which they volunteered for the duration of the war and twelve months thereafter or returning to civilian life. Very few resigned. Every WAAAF, like the men of the RAAF, was a volunteer.

Listed at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra are the names of 57 WAAAF who died while serving.

Approximately 27000 women saw service in the WAAAF between March 1941 and July 1947 when the last member was discharged from the Force. They proved, together with the women of the Navy and Army and those who worked in munitions factories, the aircraft manufacturing industry, on the land and in all areas where women had been manpowered to replace men, that women could fulfil tasks and roles previously undertaken solely by men.

Group Officer Clare Grant Stevenson was appointed Director of the WAAAF with effect from 9 June 1941 and retired from the Service on 18 March 1946. Her unsparing efforts, in helping to weld the WAAAF into an effective component of the RAAF, were an inspiration to all members. Lady Gowrie, wife of the Governor-General, was the first Honorary Air Commandant of the WAAAF and was followed by Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester.

The WAAAF was the first Women's Service to be formed in Australia (excluding the Nursing Services) and members were greatly disappointed that, other than several official visits made by a few to New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Northern Territory, they were not permitted to serve outside Australia.

The value of the work and the skills of the WAAAF during a period when thousands of men needed to be released for operational duty overseas and Australia itself was at risk, encouraged the formation of the Women's Royal Australian Air Force (WRAAF) in 1951. This branch of the RAAF was disbanded in 1977 when its members became an integral part of the RAAF.

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Australian Women's Register

  1. WAAAF at war : life and work in the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force
    Robertson, Elizabeth M.
    [1974]
    Published: Mullaya
  2. Women in Air ForceRAAF - History : Women in Air Force
    RAAF
    [1995]
    Published: Department of Defence
    Series: http://www.defence.gov.au/raaf/history/women.htm
  3. RAAF Museum Point Cook Home Page
    RAAF Museum Point Cook
    [2002]
    Published: RAAF Museum Point Cook
    Series: http://www.raafmuseum.com.au/
  4. WOMEN'S AUXILIARY AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE (WAAAF) IN AUSTRALIA DURING WW2Australia @ War Dunn, Peter : WOMEN'S AUXILIARY AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE (WAAAF) IN AUSTRALIA DURING WW2
    Dunn, Peter
    [2002]
    Series: http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/waaaf/waaaf.htm
  5. The WAAAFFederation and Meteorology Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre and Bureau of Meteorology : The WAAAF
    Joyce, J
    [2001]
    Series: http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/0236.html
  6. The Way We WereContact 46 Autumn 12-13 : The Way We Were
    [1991]
  7. WAAAF 'Mob' well met againThe Sunday Herald : WAAAF 'Mob' well met again
    Gillies, Fiona
    [1991]
  8. Dreaming of the Wild Blue YonderFrankston Standard 1991 : Dreaming of the Wild Blue Yonder
    Opitz, Lee
    [1991]
  9. Still fighting 40 years onThe Age Accent 22 : Still fighting 40 years on
    Kissane, Karen
    [1982]
  10. Introducing the W.A.A.A.F. : An account of Australia's first Women's Auxiliary Air ForceThe New Idea 30 May 1941 16-17 : Introducing the W.A.A.A.F. : An account of Australia's first Women's Auxiliary Air Force
    Johnston, Esme
    [1941]
  11. The WAAAF in Wartime Australia
    Thomson, Joyce A
    [1992]
    Published: Melbourne University Press
  12. WAAAF - an Aussie wartime success storyAir Force News Department of Defence : WAAAF - an Aussie wartime success story
    Doidge, Amber Amber Doidge
    [2001]
    Series: http://www.defence.gov.au/news/raafnews/editions/4404/story10.htm
  13. State Library of New South Wales: Shirley Emilie Shennen - papers, 1923-1991 (1923 - 1991)
    Includes correspondence, mainly letters received 1938-1974 RESTRICTED MLMSS 6084/1-4; personal papers 1923-1950s includes school records, report and Intermediate Certificate, birth certificate and autograph book MLMSS 6084/5; newscuttings and other printed material 1930-1950s; photographs, 1923-1991; WAAAF records including diary (1944), leave pass, tobacco ration permit, exercise book containing information about the WAAAF, song sheets; 1940-1950s; Miscellaneous material including first aid certificate, nursing notes, theatre programs, recipes etc.
    MLMSS 6084
  14. State Library of New South Wales: Clare Grant Stevenson - further papers, 192--1988, mainly concerning the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force, with the papers of Joyce A Thomson concerning Clare Grant Stevenson, 1941- 1992 (1920 - 1992)
    Contains Clare Grant Stevenson personal and family papers, 1927-1988; Clare Grant Stevenson papers 1941-1947, concerning the Woman's Auxiliary Air Force ; Clare Grant Stephenson photographs, 192--1981; Clare Grant Stevenson - miscellaneous papers, 1941-1992, of Joyce A Thomson concerning Clare Grant Stevenson and the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force, including research material for and a copy of her book, The WAAAF in Wartime Australia, 1992.
    MLMSS 5364 ADD-ON 2072
  15. State Library of New South Wales: Clare Grant Stevenson - papers, 1941-1947, concerning the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (1941 - 1947)
    Papers include Reports of WAAAF Officers, 26 Jan.-3 Oct. 1942 (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/2) 'Letters to & from WAAAF Officers 1-9-42 [7 Aug. 1942] - 1-6-43 [27 May 1943]' (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/2) 'Letters to & from WAAAF Officers 1-6-43 [17 May 1943] - 1-1-44' (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/2) 'Letters to D. WAAAF. from WAAAF Officers [being correspondence] 1-1-44 - 1-1-45 [17 Jan. 1945]' (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/2) 'Unofficial letters to and from WAAAF Officers 1-1-45 [27 Nov. 1944] - end [29-1-46]' (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/3) 'Letters from Sq/Off. [Edna] Speed 1-1-45 [9 Dec. 1944] - [7 Feb. 1945] (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/3) 'Unofficial letters from Ft/O [Jean] Lawson [19 Aug.-26 Dec. 1944]' (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/3) 'Semi-Private Letters to [and from] Sqdn/Off. C. Stevenson 1-8-41 [18 Aug. 1941] - 1-6-42 [18 Apr. 1942]' (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/3) 'Unofficial letters (G/O Stevenson) 1-6-42 [30 Mar. 1942] - 2nd Sept. '42' (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD 0N 2072/3) 'Unofficial letters (G/O Stevenson) 1-9-42 [17 June 1942] - 29-12-42' (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/4) 'Unofficial letters G/O/Stevenson 1-1-43 [12 Nov. 1942] - 1-6-43 [6 July 1943] (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/4) 'Unofficial letters to & from G/O Stevenson 1-6-43 [15 May 1943] - 31-12-43' (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/4) 'Unofficial letters to & from D WAAAF 3-1-44 [20 Dec. 1943] - 1-145 [10 Jan. 1945]' (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/5) 'Unofficial letters to & from D WAAAF 1-1-45 [20 Sep. 1944] - [11 Apr. 1946]' (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/5) 'Unofficial letters [correspondence of] S/Off. [Mabel Flora] Miller [1 Oct. 1942 - 23 Nov. 1943]' (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/5) 'Semi-Private Letters [correspondence of] S/O [Eugenie Camille] Wickham Lawes [18 May-13 June 1942]' (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/5) 'Semi-Private Letters to [correspondence of] Flt/Off. Sybil-Jean Burnett [10 June 1940, 6 Aug. 1941-22 May 1942]' (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/5) Correspondence of Clare Grant Stevenson, 1941-1946, mainly concerning the WAAAF, including letters received from Wing-Officer Audrey Beatrice Herring and Helen Palmer, and Department of Air Minute Paper concerning enlistment of W.A.A.A.F. personnel for duration of the war (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/5) Correspondence of Clare Grant Stevenson, 1942-1945, mainly concerning WAAAF personnel, including letters received from Wing-Officer Audrey Beatrice Herring (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/5) WAAAF Officer Trainees' Essays, 1943 (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/6) 'Broadcasts, Speeches and Newspaper Articles [mainly by] Group Officer C.G. Stevenson' (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/6) 'D WAAAF's Invitations [and related correspondence]', 1 Oct. 1944-Feb. 1946 (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/6) 'Personal Receipts of Group Officer Stevenson 1-4-42 to [1946]' (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/6) 'WAAAF Publicity', 1942-1946 (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/6) Parcel of papers, 1941-1945, including Royal Australian Air Force orders and handbook of administration; publications concerning the RAAF.; reports and studies on, among other things, German psychological warfare, and fatigue; and officers' accounts/biographies (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/7) Notebook of D WAAAF visits to units, 1 Mar. 1943-11 Apr. 1945 (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/7) Printed material, 1943-1946, being British and Australian publications concerning military service, demobilisation and postwar reconstruction (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/7) Papers concerning An Investigation into the Selection, Training and Placement of Officers in the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force, 1947, including report, completed questionnaires and letters received from ex-W.A.A.A.F.s (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/8) Original wrappings of Clare Grant Stevenson's personal WAAAF files originally containing most of the papers at ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/2-8 (Locn No.: ML MSS 5364. ADD ON 2072/8
    MLMSS 5364 ADD-ON 2072/2-8
  16. Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales: Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force records (1943 - 1946)
    Includes WAAAF history, 3v; RAAF.- Directorate of Training, v.4 WAAAF. Recruit training handbook; V.5 Professional occupations in Australia 1945; RAAF.- School of Administration v.6 Notebook;l v.7 The Training of trainee officers: final report; v.8 Lawson, J. - War diary of a WAAAF.; RAAF.- Educational Services v.9 WAAAF. Rec. Room notes 1-17; v.10 Wall sheets 1-39; v.11 Project 1: Our ally - France; Miscellaneous v.12 Hair do's and don'ts for WAAAF.; v.13 Miscellaneous papers from staff conference 1945; v.14 RNZAF. Catering bulletins; v.15 Report to Prime Minister on Civilian morale, North Queensland
    A3103-A3117
  17. Australian War Memorial Research Centre: Thomson, Joyce A (1918 - 1992)
    Research papers compiled for the writing of `The WAAAF in Wartime Australia'. Includes correspondence, notes, photographs, scrapbooks, and contributions by former WAAAF members. (Item list available in box 1).
    PR00246
  18. Australian War Memorial Research Centre: Keep them flying! There's a job for you in the WAAAF
    This is a recruiting poster for the WAAAF, with an image of a uniformed WAAAF in the centre. The poster has the slogan 'Keep them flying! There's a job for you in the WAAAF' printed in red. 'Second World War' is printed in grey upper left and within a box at lower left: 'Apply at RAAF Recruiting Centre or Committee in Your District.' There are four Spitfires in the sky upper left, and one Hudson aircraft on the airstrip lower right. The Australian flag partly fills the background.
    ARTV01114
  19. Australian War Memorial Research Centre: "Doing a grand job!" Join the WAAAF (1942)
    ARTV05170
  20. Australian War Memorial Research Centre: In the outdoors, Yarra Valley, Vic.
    Yarra Valley, Vic. C. 1943-09. In the outdoors, the Director WAAAF, Group Officer Clare Stevenson (second from left) and a WAAAF Wing Officer (in dark uniform) conversing with WAAAF officers who conducted a four-day bivouac for a group of WAAAF officer trainees in an area near Launching Place, as part of their training course. Third from the left is Squadron Officer Margaret Blackwood, the officer in charge of the bivouac and on the extreme right is Flight Officer Doris Carter, a staff instructor for the bivouac. On the latter's right is her assistant, Section Officer Helen Palmer.
    VIC1314

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  1. They speed the eagles : the story of the W.A.A.A.F. (The Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force) / by Patricia Massey-Higgins ; in collaboration with the Royal Australian Air Force ; with a message from H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester, illustrations...
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  6. [Portrait of] Clare Grant Stevenson / Charles Wheeler
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  3. The WAAAF in wartime Australia / Joyce A. Thomson
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  4. They speed the eagles : the story of the W.A.A.F. (the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force) / by Patricia Massey-Higgins; in collaboration with the Royal Australian Air Force; illustrations by Elaine Haxton
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  5. WAAAF at war : life and work in the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force / [by] E.M. Robertson
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  6. The W.A.A.A.F. book / edited by Clare Stevenson and Honor Darling
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  2. AIR FORCE ENGAGEMENT.
    The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954) Monday 11 May 1942 p 3 Article
    ... Buckinghamshire, to Flight-Lt Mar cus Swann, of the Royal Australian Air Force. Miss Sybil Burnett, who holds the rank of Squadron-Officer in the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force, came to Australia about 18 months ago to join her father. Before that she served in England with the Women's Auxiliary Air ... 81 words
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  3. WOMEN IN AIR FORCE Auxiliary Proposed
    Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954) Thursday 18 January 1940 Edition: LATE NEWS EDITION and DAILY p 9 Article
    ... WOMEN IN AIR FORCE Auxiliary Proposed In Britain the Women's Auxiliary Air Force is a valuable adjunct of the Royal Air Force. These are thousands of women, each smartly turned out in Air Force blue ... Empire air scheme. An Australian Women's Auxiliary Air Force would release a very large number of these ... 182 words
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  1. Website: State Library of New South Wales [website]
    infocus.sl.nsw.gov.au
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  2. Website: Royal Australian Air Force Association (W.A. Division) Inc
    www.raafawa.org.au
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  3. Website: Australian Women's Archives Project
    www.womenaustralia.info
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  1. The RAAF -Royal Australian Air Force- Meteorological Service (D. Met. S), 1939-1945
    Joyce, J. R
    Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society
    [ Article : 1983 ]
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  2. W.A.A.A.F. rec room notes / R.A.A.F. Educational Services
    Australia. Royal Australian Air Force. Educational Services
    [ Periodical : 1945 ]
    At National Library
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  3. An artist in the WAAAF: Elsa Russell's war
    Furby, Paula; Sheridan, Susan
    Hecate
    [ Article : 2002 ]
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  4. Reflections on gender and memory: personal experiences of women of the WAAAF during the second world war.(Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force)(Essay)
    Lowe, Bronwyn
    Melbourne Historical Journal
    [ Article : 2011 ]
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