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Starling Jean, Australia, WAAF, Specialist Photographic Interpreter, Flight Officer

WAAF Wednesday Jean Starling was born in Melbourne and moved to Canberra in 1928. She became Canberra’s first community librarian and established the library in the rear of Acton House. In 1938 she travelled to Britain and undertook a librarian’s course at London University College while working at Oxford City Library. Subsequently with the outbreak of war, she enlisted in the WAAF and trained as a specialist photographic interpreter.

Tunstall, S S M, Australia, RAAF, 150 Squadron, Pilot, Flight Sergeant

Flight Sergeant S S M Tunstall and his crew of a Vickers Wellington Mark X of No. 150 Squadron RAF receive a final briefing from their flight commander before taking off from Kairouan, Tunisia, for a raid on targets in the Salerno area on the day before the Allied landings there, (Operation AVALANCHE). Pictured are, (left to right): Sergeant J Umbers of Coulsdon, Surrey, (wireless operator/air gunner); Sergeant J Baxter of Ayrshire, Scotland, (bombardier); Squadron Leader E Le P Langlois of Clarence Park, South Australia, (Commander, 'A' Flight); Flight Sergeant S S M Tunstall of Boonah, Queensland, Australia, (pilot); Sergeant F Doyle of Crosby, Liverpool, (navigator), and Sergeant M Hayes of Lismore, Eire, (rear gunner). IWM (CNA 1271)


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