Barbara Angell, A Woman’s War – the exceptional life of Wilma Oram Young, AM, New Holland Australia, 2003.

Norman G Manners, Bullwinkel, Hesperian Press, 1999.

Elizabeth Burchill, The Paths I’ve Trod, Spectrum, 1981.

Edith D K Eadie, With the AANS 1939-1945, Australia Remembers Committee, Adelaide, 1995.

We too, were there, Fedora Gould Fisher (ed.) Returned Sisters Sub-branch RSL Queensland, 1995.

Catherine Kenny, Captives: Australian Army Nurses in Japanese Prison Camps, University of Queensland Press, 1986.

Jessie Elizabeth Simons, While History Passed The Story of the Australian Nurses Who Were Prisoners of the Japanese Three and a Half Years William Heinemann, 1954.

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Rupert Goodman, Our War Nurses, the history of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps 1902-1988, Boolarong Press,1988.Gay Halstead, Story of the RAAF Nursing Service 1940 – 1990 Nungurner Press, 1994.Jan Bassett, Guns and Brooches, Oxford University Press, 1992.Now a regular speaker with the Country Women’s Association, Australian Rotary Clubs, Legacy, Red Cross and Memorial groups, Jacqueline has become a well-known figure amongst The Returned & Services League of Australia. Jacqueline’s former experience was in corporate and art communications and events, before she embarked on her own public relations and events business. The accounts are enhanced by poignant, amusing and insightful anecdotes along with scores of previously unpublished and unique photographs from personal albums. The last tradition left was the weekly dance, which ceremoniously brought these courageous women and men together for a quickstep, fox trot and brief respite from the rigours of wartime. Their passion, courage, resilience and commitment during wartime were all a precursor to the astonishing changes brought about by this incredible generation.įor the first time, women were doing their bit as nurses in war zones, members of the services, farmhands, factory workers or volunteers in community service. Revealing poignant and personal conversations, photographs and letters, Between the Dances is a testament to real life during World War 2.įrom Malta to Australia, New Zealand to the UK, the challenges and adventures faced by these women were unprecedented.

In preparation for her book Between the Dances, Jacqueline Dinan, interviewed over three hundred women around Australia to collect the last first hand stories from World War 2. Thousands of women ventured where few had gone before – into the services and workplaces previously considered the sole preserve of men. The start of World War 2 changed women’s lives and their place in Australian society forever.

Between the Dances by Jacqueline Dinan