Essie Dell O’Bryant Woods

Staff Sergeant Essie Woods and her sisters, one older and one younger, all enlisted in the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps in 1943; member of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion

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Dr Margaret Williams Weir

The first Aboriginal person to matriculate to an Australian university. In January 1957 the University of Queensland offered her a scholarship and she commenced an arts degree.

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