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Australian Women at War!

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Introduction:
"'Women and War' - not two words we usually associate with each other, but, historically the Australian women in this quiz did their bit for the war effort - can you work out who they were?"


1. Perhaps the most famous of Australia's 'Women at War' she was wanted by the Gestapo in WWII. What was this woman's code-name?
    The Mouse Who Roared
    The White Mouse
    The Aussie Mouse
    The Mouse from Down Under


2. Youngest daughter of an Australian Prime Minister, this woman was responsible for tracing many missing and wounded Australian soldiers during WWI. She volunteered in 1915, just before War broke out. What was her name?
    Mary Hughes
    Margaret Fisher
    Thelma Reid
    Vera Deakin


3. Which of the following Australian 'Women at War', born in South Australia in 1915, showed immense courage while a prisoner of war of the Japanese and exemplified the bravery of Australian women during WWII?
    Ellen Rutherford
    Mary McFarlane
    Vivian Bullwinkel
    Margaret Adams


4. Nearing the end of the war in Vietnam, volunteers were called on to assist in repatriating orphans from Ton Son Nhut. Which of the following 'Women at War' assisted?
    Kay Parker
    Phyllis Schumann
    Pat Deal
    Mavis Cullen


5. Awarded the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) Medal in 1998 was which of the following Australian 'Women at War', born in 1916, who was a prisoner of war from 1942 and was later associated with the RSL?
    Kay Parker
    Wilma Oram Young
    Lorna Whyte
    Mavis Green


6. Which of the following survivors of the POW Camps in Sumatra, an Australian 'Woman at War', along with Vivian Bullwinkel, helped establish a nurses memorial centre in Melbourne?
    Mavis Cullen
    Mona Wilton
    Betty Jeffrey
    Jean Anderson


7. Which of the following 'Women at War' served Australia, even though she was a civilian, during the infamous 'Tet Offensive' in Vietnam, after having arrived in Vietnam in 1967?
    Kay Parnell
    Jan Rayner Mills
    Pat Deal
    Maureen Spicer


8. She was a prisoner of war in Japan, post-1942 after serving in Rabaul. This describes which of the following Australian 'Women at War'?
    Sr Berenice Twohill
    Maureen McLeod
    Dot Angell
    Lorna Johnston


9. Which of the following civilian Australian 'Women at War' served in Bien Hoa hospital, Vietnam in 1966 and 1967?
    Mavis Cullen
    Margaret Hamilton
    Dot Angell
    Kay Parker


10. Whilst protecting injured prisoners onboard the 'Empire Star', which of the following Australian 'Women at War' laid her life on the line, literally, and was awarded the George Medal?
    Margaret Adams
    Margaret Hamilton
    Margaret Anderson
    Mona Wilton


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