• Entry type: Resource
  • Entry ID: AWH003129

Dorothy Dudgeon and others from the Melbourne Women’s Bushwalking Club, 1928-1930 [picture]

  • Repository National Library of Australia, Pictures Collection
  • Reference PIC Box PIC/3354 #PIC/3354/1-7
  • Date Range 1928 - 1930
  • Description

    Inscriptions in ink on reverse: 1. “From left, Mollie Hill, Verlie Dudgeon, Hookie and Hookie’s niece in walk Birregurra to Lorne abt 1929”. 2. “On trip over Alps. I think I hold horses head. Look at sturdy female – Dorothy Dudgeon in the middle. She was about 19 then. Dungey’s track bet. Alps + Bogong High Plains – 1929″[Dorothy Dudgeon was born in 1902]. 3. “Burnt out Sth Gippsland. Early trip abt 1928. Dot Dudgeon in land jacket”. 4. “Verlie Dudgeon (centre) on cairn on top of Mt, Bogong. Jean Pallant (top) Leila (below)”. 5. “Just look at this. Self – Dorothy Dudgeon- in front of horses head. Our clothes tied on because of wind which hurled our belongings away. Taken on Dungey’strack between Alps and Bogong High Plains when 27”. 6. “Miss Creighton, Chic Fowler standing. Dishwashing on South Gippsland trip 1928/9 Easter (DD)”. 7. “1930 On trip to Mt Bogong via Bogong High Plains when 28. Second from left. Betty, self – Dorothy Dudgeon, Jean, Leila + Verl – Verlie Dudgeon.

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