The Australian Women's Register

Summary

Doris Carter became Australia’s first women’s field athlete to compete at an Olympic Games when she placed sixth in the high jump at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. She also represented Australia in international hockey, and was General Manager of the Australian Women’s Team at the Melbourne Olympic Games in 1956. A Wing Officer and Director of the Women’s RAAF, she was the first woman to fly both the Canberra Bomber and the Vampire Jet. Her proudest moment was in 1996 she co-led the Melbourne ANZAC Day parade

Events

• 1951 - 1960

  Director of the Women’s Royal Australian Air Force

• 1960

  General secretary of the YWCA, Melbourne

• 1929 - 1941

  Teacher with the Victorian Education Department

• 1941 - 1946

  Member of the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF)

• 2057

  Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire

• 1946

  Officer-in-charge of the WAAAF Victory Contingent to London

• 1946 - 1948

  Department of Post-War Reconstruction

• 1948 - 1951

  Officer-in-charge of the Child and Youth Migration with the Department of Immigration, London

• 1936

  Track and Field Athletics – placed sixth in the high jump

  Participated at the Berlin Olympic Games
• 1938

  Represented Australia at the Empire Games, Sydney

• 1937 - 1939

  Played interstate hockey

• 1952 - 1961

  President of the Australian Women’s Amateur Athletic Union

• 1956

  Manager of the Australian Women’s Team at the Olympic Games, Melbourne

• 1963

  Member of the Board of Trustees at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra

• 1971

  Member of the National Fitness Council, Victoria