- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE0588
Price, Eileen May
- Maiden name Lee, Eileen
- Born 10 May 1921, Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia
- Died 19 March 1996
- Occupation Servicewoman, Teacher
Summary
A stenographer with the Department of Motor Transport, Eileen Price (née Lee) enjoyed dancing, surfing and roller skating before joining the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) on 6 June 1942. As a teleprinter operator, Aircraftwoman Lee was stationed at the Eastern Area Headquarters and the RAAF Station Canberra. After her discharge on 29 October 1945 she married Garnet George McLeod Price. The pair moved to Papua New Guinea when Garnet Price accepted a position as engineer with Guinea Air Traders.
Eileen Price returned to Sydney when she became pregnant, but her husband was killed in an aircraft accident and she raised their daughter, Catherine McLeod Price, with the help of her mother and by taking teaching positions with the Department of Technical Education.
Published resources
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Resource Section
- LEE, EILEEN MARY, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=R&VeteranID=940183
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Resource
- Trove: Price, Eileen May (1921-), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-755083