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| | Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot - History Of WRANS |
 | | In April 1941 the Royal Australian Navy employed 14 Civilian Females who had been trained privately as Wireless Telegraphists, and the first of them started work at HMAS Harman, the RANs W/T station near Canberra, to relieve the acute shortage of male operators caused by Australia's involvement in WW2. |
 | | WRANS were employed in the categories: cook, steward, writer, stores victualling, regulating, radio operator, radar plot, motor transport driver, electronic technical communications, dental and medical. |
 | | They enlisted in the RAN with the rank of sub-lieutenant on probation and after undergoing training as naval officers at HMAS Creswell then undertook familiarisation at the RAN Medical Training School at HMAS Cerberus, after which they were posted to billets in either the RAN Hospital, HMAS Penguin, in Sydney or the RAN hospital. |
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